| Chris Dainty | |
| Known For: | Shannon Amen |
| Alma Mater: | Algonquin College |
| Occupation: | artist, animator, ice sculptor |
| Spouse: | Jennifer Dainty |
Chris Dainty is a Canadian artist and animator from Ottawa, Ontario.[1] He is most noted for his 2019 short film Shannon Amen, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Animated Short at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.[2]
A graduate of the animation program at Algonquin College, he runs his own animation studio in partnership with his wife Jennifer Dainty,[1] and has served on award juries for the Ottawa International Animation Festival.[3] He has done animation work for the television series The Secret World of Benjamin Bear, Carl², Odd Squad and Dino Dana, and made the short film One Last Dream in 2015.
Shannon Amen was made through his own self-invented technique of "icemation", which uses stop motion animation of figures carved in ice.[4] Dainty is also an ice sculptor, and has frequently competed in the annual ice sculpture competition at Ottawa's Winterlude festival.[1]