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Ethan Spaulding

Ethan Spaulding

Film director · 2 films (2014–2019)

Ethan Spaulding is a director whose work here spans Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014) to Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island (2019), across animation and thriller. The work runs nocturnal — 65% of frames across the 2 films indexed here, against 43% library-wide. All 229 frames from 2 films are indexed here, searchable by lighting, lens, shot size, colour and mood.

Ethan Spaulding is an American animation director, producer and storyboard artist, well known as a crew person on the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. He directed twelve episodes, and held various crew positions on several others.

Born 1 January 1972 · Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Directing style

Spaulding’s visual style relies on interior, night-driven environments to establish a tense, ominous, and mysterious atmosphere. He favors eye-level medium shots with a balanced mix of deep and shallow depth of field, rendering action and character blocking with clean, direct perspective. The lighting is heavily reliant on practical sources and headlights to pierce a predominantly cool, desaturated palette of dark grays, deep blues, and muted browns.

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Films directed by Ethan Spaulding

About Ethan Spaulding

When was Ethan Spaulding born?

Ethan Spaulding was born on 1 January 1972 in Los Angeles, California, U.S..

What films has Ethan Spaulding directed?

FrameThrower holds stills from 2 of them: Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014) and Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island (2019).

Search every frame of Ethan Spaulding’s films

All 229 indexed frames from 2 films directed by Ethan Spaulding — searchable by lighting, lens, shot size, mood or plain language.