As CEO/CCO and Co-Founder for Brazen Animation in Dallas, Bryan Engram is responsible for the vision, creative, and overall direction of the studio. Before founding Brazen in 2013, Bryan served as Director of Studio Animation at Reel FX Studios in Dallas from 2003-2012. While at Reel FX, Bryan oversaw projects for top studios such as Walt Disney, Dreamworks, Blue Sky/Fox Animation, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures Animation, and Illumination/Universal Pictures. Bryan has also worked as Animation Director and Supervisor on a number of feature, commercial, and game projects. A few of his credits include the feature films The Wild, Everyone’s Hero, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Open Season 2, and Open Season 3. He worked on the award winning Warner Bros’ Looney Tunes short films Coyote Falls, Rabid Rider, Fur of Flying, I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat, and Daffy’s Rhapsody.

In 2010, Bryan was nominated for a Visual Effects Society (VES) Award for “Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Short” for the work done on the Warner Bros’ short Coyote Falls. The short also garnered an Annie Nomination and short listed for the 2010 Oscars. In 2012, Bryan oversaw the Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem 3D Ride for Illumination/Universal Studios, which garnered both the Annie and VES Awards respectively. In 2023, Bryan accepted the Torch Award for Brazen’s animated original Tempest. The award recognizes Tempest for receiving the highest rating from a Jury/Guild of 100K+ members as part of the Angel Studios upcoming slate.