Sam Chou is joining Toronto-based Look Mom! Productions as its new creative development director.

In the newly created role, Chou will oversee the prodco’s creative development slate, which includes animated fare for teens and adults. Reporting to managing director Josh Bowen, he will focus on taking Look Mom! further into the adult animation space in North America and internationally through scripted dramas, and will also produce and direct new animated projects. Look Mom! is a division of Blue Ant Media’s Studios arm.

Last year, Look Mom! announced a kids development slate that included a copro with two Brazilian studios. However, it has since pivoted its focus away from content for six to 11-year-olds, a Blue Ant spokesperson confirmed. Instead, the prodco will focus on its core competencies of teen and adult animation.

Other projects on its slate include Doomlands (Quibi), Adult Swim Canada’s Night Sweats, VRV’s Bigfoot and Gary and His Demons.

Chou previously served as creative development director for Vancouver-based Kickstart Entertainment, where he worked on the company’s first Netflix original kids series Starbeam. His directing credits include CG action series Max Steel: Team Turbo (Mattel) and Kody Kapow (Universal Kids). Chou has also worked for the likes of Warner Bros., Sony, DreamWorks and Disney.