Ken Turner is an award-winning short film director who currently works as a independent designer and freelance illustrator.

He graduated from the BAA Animation program in 2007 at Sheridan College. During which he collaborated on a short film called Umbrella Boy, which won 2nd place at the Ottawa Animation Film Festival in 2006. Later that year he directed his first 2D animated group short film, Attack of the Giant Vegetable Monsters. It would go on to win the 2008 Jackson Hole/MovieHatch.com Cowboy Award for Best Animation. In 2007 he directed his final film and first stop motion animated short film, TiM, which was a homage to his favorite film director Tim Burton.  In February of 2011, "TiM" would be screened as an official opening night selection and an animation night selection at the LES (Lower East Side) Film Festival in New York, NY.

Ken has worked as a character designer and animator for various studios such as C.O.R.E Toons (Iggy Arbuckle), Cookie Jar Entertainment, 9 Story Entertainment/Nelvana (My Friend Rabbit, Spliced) and Cuppa Coffee Studios (Ugly Americans).

In 2009 he self published his first book called A Night at the Movies, which is a surreal take on the communal experience of going to a theatre to see films. Then in Feb and May 2010 he self published his second and third illustrated humor books called Eye Candy Volume #1: The Village Idioms and Eye Candy Volume #2: Apples and Idioms. In October 2010 he made a mini comic entitled The World of Snowboy and Crow about the misadventures of boy made from snow and his friend a crow.

His illustration and film work have been featured in the pages of the Toronto Star, DRAWN!, Cartoon Brew, IMDB and SlashFilm.