John Donkin received an Academy Award nomination in 2003 as producer of Gone Nutty, an animated short created at Blue Sky Studios featuring the popular character Scrat from the “Ice Age” films. Donkin joined Blue Sky Studios in 1998 as a technical and administrative director. One of his first projects was helping to complete the Oscar-winning short film Bunny. He developed the production line for Blue Sky's first feature-length animated film project, Ice Age, before becoming an associate producer on the film. Donkin went on to produce several other Blue Sky Studios projects, including Rio and Rio 2, which became a globally successful franchise, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which grossed over $887 million worldwide, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Robots, and the Oscar-nominated short Blue Sky No Time for Nuts. Donkin began his career in computer animation in 1983, where he studied with the world-renowned CGRG (Computer Graphics Research Group) at Ohio State University. He went on to become a senior animator at the pioneering computer graphics company Cranston/Csuri Productions. John Donkin는 제작자로, 대표작으로 인빈시블, 아이스 에이지, 아이스 에이지 4: 대륙 이동설이 있으며, 그 외에도 아이스 에이지 3: 공룡시대, 로봇, 리오, 리오 2, 아이스 에이지: 알 찾기 대소동, 노 타임 포 너츠, Gone Nutty, Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty, 서바이빙 시드, Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2, Ice Age: No Time for Nuts 4-D 등 다양한 작품을 제작했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2027년 아이스 에이지 6: 화산 대폭발 연출을 맡았다. 2022년 아이스 에이지: 벅의 대모험 연출을 맡았다. 2021년 인빈시블 제작에 참여했다.