Overview
Shane Poettcker has been a director for Ninjago since the eleventh season. He also directed episodes for Ninjago: Dragons Rising. Alongside Rich Johnson, he was nominated for the Leo Award for Best Direction in an Animation Series in 2022 for his work on the episode "The Turn of the Tide", and won the award in 2024 for the episode "Land of Lost Things".[1][2]
Credits
Credits[]
Ninjago[]
Directed by[]
Season 11: Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu[]
- 101. "A Rocky Start"
- 104. "The News Never Sleeps!"
- 107. "Powerless"
- 110. "Under Siege"
- 113. "A Cold Goodbye"
- 116. "An Unlikely Ally"
- 119. "The Traveler's Tree"
- 125. "Corruption"
- 127. "Once and for All"
- 128. "Awakenings"
Season 12: Prime Empire[]
- 131. "Level Thirteen"
- 134. "The Glitch"
- 137. "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back"
- 140. "Stop, Drop and Side Scroll"
- 143. "The Temple of Madness"
Season 13: Master of the Mountain[]
- 146. "Into the Dark"
- 149. "Queen of the Munce"
- 152. "The Real Fall"
- 155. "Grief-Bringer"
- 158. "The Ascent"
The Island[]
- 162. "The Keepers of the Amulet"
Season 14: Seabound[]
- 165. "A Big Splash"
- 168. "Five Thousand Fathoms Down"
- 171. "Escape from Merlopia"
- 174. "Riddle of the Sphinx"
- 177. "The Calm Before the Storm"
- 180. "The Turn of the Tide" (with Wade Cross)
The Virtues of Spinjitzu[]
- 1. "Curiosity"
- 5. “Generosity”
Season 15: Crystallized[]
- 183. "The Shape of Nya"
- 186. "A Painful Promise"
- 189. "Hounddog McBrag"
- 192. "The Council of the Crystal King"
- 195. "The Fall of the Monastery"
- 198. "Return to Primeval’s Eye"
- 201. "A Lesson in Anger"
- 204. "Return of the Ice Emperor"
- 207. "Distress Calls"
- 210. "Roots"
Ninjago: Dragons Rising[]
Directed by[]
Season 1[]
- 2. "The Merge: Part 2"
- 4. "Beyond Madness"
- 6. "Return to Imperium"
- 8. "I Will Be the Danger"
- 10. "The Battle of the Second Monastery"
- 12. "Gangs of the Sea"
- 14. "The Last Djinn"
- 16. "Land of Lost Things"
- 18. "Absolute Power"
- 20. "The Power Within"
Season 2[]
- 22. "Shattered Dreams" (with Allan Phan)
- 24. "Force From the East" (with Allan Phan)
- 26. "To Mysterium"
- 28. "Secrets of the Wyldness"
- 30. "Rising Ninja"
- 32. "Enter the City of Temples"
- 34. "Inside the Maze"
- 36. "Truth and Lies"
- 38. "Clues and Suspects"
- 40. "Elements of Betrayal"
Season 3[]
- 42. "The Ultimate Object of Admiration"
- 44. "The Great Zane Robbery"
- 46. "Fallen Wishes"
- 48. "Crashing Together"
- 50. "The Shatter Dragon"
- 52. "Human Resources"
- 54. "Casket of Bones"
- 56. "Under the Light of a Mechanical Moon"
- 58. "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
- 60. "Chaos Reigns"
Season 4[]
- 62. "The Lean of a Tree"
- 64. "A Wonder of the Merged Lands"
- 66. "Just Under the Surface"
- 68. "Dying to Live"
- 70. "Birthright"