Shaofu Zhang is the founder of Taiko Studios and the producer and writer of the Academy Award-nominated short film "One Small Step." Most recently, he has been the director of the Award-winner shorts films "Pangu" for Tencent and "Fu" for Airbnb.

Shaofu started his career in the animation industry with his student Film Dragonboy (2011,) which he wrote and directed, and won him the Gold Medal Placement at the Student Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film. He has worked in the animation industry for over a decade and has served as an animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios and Sony Pictures Imageworks. He was even the Animation Supervisor at "Gigantic" a film produced by Disney. Shaofu is also an adjunct professor at Wuhan University.