Frits Standaert graduated from the KASK / School of Arts in Ghent in 1986 and now shares his time between directing, animating, producing, and teaching. He has made a great many successful adverts and, after 1990, short animated films, some of which have been selected for and awarded at numerous festivals. In 2017, he made The Stonemason’s Dream. Since 2013, he has been the manager of the Eyeland Animation Studio in Ghent, which specialises in films for younger audiences, including Compte les moutons (2015), and La Chasse au Dragon (2015). He is Head of the Animation Department of the RITCS School of Arts in Brussels, where he has taught animation since 2003.