An evening with “Moebius” exclusive special event. Reservations are open now.

“Moebius” is in the house at CTNX the weekend of Nov 19-21.
This exclusive US appearance of JEAN GIRAUD “MOEBIUS” is made possible by The Creative Talent Network®.
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (born May 8, 1938) (alias Moebius or Gir) is a legendary author and comic strip artist. In 1963, under the name Gir [...]

Robh Ruppel Art Director

Robh has designed for video games, feature films and animation, publishing and theme parks. Most recently Uncharted 2 took almost every GOTY award and several for best Art Direction.  He has taught at Art Center College of Design, Gnomon and Concept Design Academy. He has received Gold and Silver awards from the Spectrum Fantasy Art [...]

David Pimental Story Artist

David Pimentel has been in the animation industry for 14 years. Starting his career at the Walt Disney Animation Atudios in hand drawn animation on such films as Pocahantas, Hercules, Fantasia 2000, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Tarzan, Atlantis, Treasure Planet and Home on the Range. In 2002 David began working for Dreamworks Animation Studios storyboarding [...]

Sean Galloway Character Designer

Sean Galloway is a self taught artist that is based in Los Angeles. His works include lead character designer on Spectacular Spider-man Animated, lead character designer on Hellboy animated, cover artist for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He recently has worked as a storyboarder for Marvel Comics’ new Avengers series, Hasbro’s new G.I.Joe [...]

Francisco Herrera Character Designer

Born in Campeche, Campeche (MEXICO) the 8th of December 1976. In 2000, started working in the American comic book industry at Dark Horse Comics (SPY BOY & STAR WARS TALES). 2001-2003, D.C. Comics, published his first own project done  called KMKZ (KAMIKAZE). Then he jumped to  D.C. Comics with small projects (THUNDER CATS, SUPERMAN & [...]

Damon Bard Industry Sculptor

DAMON BARD – For close to 20 years, Damon Bard has been working as a freelance artist in the entertainment industry primarily as a sculptor and designer of characters and creatures. Since then, he has contributed to nearly 30 films and other various projects during his career.
At an early age, (about 6-7 years old) Damon [...]

Kent Melton Master Sculptor

Kent Melton has spent the past 25 years working in animation.  He was the first staff sculptor employed by Hanna Barbera.  He then worked as an art director at Universal Studios before embarking on a full-time career as a sculptor for feature films.  Melton has sculpted countless maquettes for Disney, Warner Bros., Don Bluth, Dreamworks, [...]

Pascal Campion Designer

Pascal Campion’s bio
Pascal Campion is an artist working in the fields on animation and illustration living in the bay area.

Chris Ayers Character Designer

Chris Ayers grew up in Minnesota surrounded by a family and community that encouraged his many creative endeavors and provided ample fuel for his imagination. After studying art in college he packed his small car to the ceiling and headed west to Hollywood to pursue his lifelong dream of working in the movies. He had [...]

Olivier Tossan Visual Development Artist

OLIVIER TOSSAN  grew up in Paris but has been living in Berlin for the last ten years. He comes from the world of scene design and illustration drawing. As a logical step, the world of story telling and entertainment now rises to the topmost level of his creations.

Like the Mary Poppins’ characters, his dream is [...]

Brett Bean Concept Artist

Brett drew on everything from his homework margins to the living room walls, thus starting his slow descent into the underbelly of visual design and illustration. Since those fateful years, he has worked on a variety of video game projects, won this year’s Origins award, and self published his second art book. He [...]

Craig Elliott Designer

Craig Elliott is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. He received his education at the famed Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and studied under artists such as Harry Carmean and Burne Hogarth. Craig’s carefully crafted and arresting images of nature and the human form have captivated audiences with their visual and [...]

Marceline Tanguay and Zaruhi Galstian

Marceline Tanguay grew up on the French island of Montreal before getting her training in Toronto. Beginning her professional career she worked as a character design intern on Toy Story 3 at Pixar Animation Studios. She later moved to New York City to join the art department at Blue Sky Studios on their upcoming films, [...]

Laura Dubuk and Tabitha Fisher Animation Artists

Laura Dubuck
Living in downtown Seattle Washington, Laura is currently a visual designer at Valve Software. She graduated with a BFA in Animation, yet she quickly found her passion creating worlds and characters that don’t really exist.
During her schooling, she began her games career working on Half-Life 2, and has since designed, modeled and textured environments [...]

Ed Rodiguez Designer

Ed Rodriguez has had a 20-year career as an artist developing and designing toys, characters and animated films for Consumer Products and Entertainment companies including The Walt Disney Company, where he spent close to10 years as Creative Director for the Disney Stores. After Disney he went to MGA/Little Tikes developing new brands and producing the [...]

Ed Ghertner Art Director

Ed was born in Texas in 1957 and three weeks later was brought home to Southern California, Where he grew up and resides today. As a child, according to his parents, Ed was always drawing. At the age of thirteen they signed him up for some life drawing classes with the political cartoonist for the [...]

Drake Brodahl Illustrator

Drake Brodahl is a Seattle-based artist and illustrator. His often whimsical, character-focused work evokes nostalgic feelings found in mid century cartoons and Little Golden Books—with a modern twist. His paintings have been featured in galleries up and down the West coast. Additionally, Drake is Background Supervisor on the Welcome to Monstroville cartoon pitch.

Please visit http://drakebrodahl.com [...]

Patrick Awa Concept Artist

Born in Santa Monica, California, Patrick grew up in Tokyo and began his career working for a Japanese CGI production studio where he rose through the ranks to direct various commercials and short films. He moved to California in 2001 and has worked as a character/concept designer for major movies such as “Valiant “(Walt Disney [...]

Roland Tamayo Concept Artist

In the spring of 1999, Roland Tamayo earned his BFA in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. After enjoying a career in the video game Industry as a Concept Artist, working on series such as Sony’s Ratchet and Clank and Resistance: Fall of Man franchises, Roland now focuses on [...]

Pao Jitmakusol Designer

HANGBoY tm The mischievous character who turns reality upside down. The Hangboy character portrays reality from a satirical point of view that is often lacking in today’s society. He questions the status quo and put a humorous, if not dark and mysterious spin on the situation.
Pao (AKA Thitipong Jitmakusol) is a multi-skilled digital artist born [...]

Ruel Pascual Digital Cinematic Artist

Ruel is currently an animator at Double Fine in San Francisco. Before Double Fine he enjoyed honing his skill set on various projects with Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, Warner Brothers, ReelFX, 3dSite, Blur Studio, and Cinemaware. He also had the pleasure of teaching animation, figure drawing, and character design at the Art Institute of Las Vegas. [...]

Jason Pruett Development Artist

Jason Pruett is an artist living in the Los Angeles area. His work includes fine art, freelance illustration, character design, and teaching. He has worked on art for games, short films, books, magazines, animated projects, and more. He also teaches an online digital media class for the Academy of Art University. He has a BFA [...]

Andre Barnwell Animator

Andre Barnwell is a classically trained designer and animator who enjoys using either his a ball point pen or the forgiving medium of photoshop. His sense of design derives from his willingness to explore shape and personalities.
A graduate of Sheridan College’s Class of 08, he has always had a love and appreciation for art and [...]

Nicolas Villarreal Independent Designer

Nicolás P.Villarreal was born and raised in La Plata, Argentina. He studied at the Escuela of Animacion y Cinematografía de Avellaneda where he earned a degree in 2d Animation. While studying animation he was taken under the wing of Miguel Alzugaray, a well-known fine artist from Argentina. He continued studying animation and fine art painting [...]

Sherm Cohen Storyboard Secrets

Sherm Cohen is a storyboard artist with 16 years experience on many hit cartoons including The Ren & Stimpy Show, Hey Arnold, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Mighty B, Phineas and Ferb, and Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil.
In addition to his storyboard work, Sherm has written and directed episodes of Hey Arnold, SpongeBob and Phineas and Ferb, and [...]

The Mighty Nomad Gallery

Craig Harris has been working as a game animator for the past nine years with brief stints with animation masters including James Baxter and John K. He is now out on his own working as an entity called the Nomad Gallery. It is a travelling art gallery featuring his own work of The [...]

Stefan Bucher Designer

Stefan G. Bucher is the man behind the ongoing drawing and storytelling experiment DAILYMONSTER.COM and the “Daily Letter” segments on “The Electric Company” airing on PBS.
He is the author of the books “All Access—The Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic Designers” and “The Graphic Eye — Photographs by Graphic Designers From Around The Globe,” as well [...]

Martin Hsu Character Designer

Martin Hsu enjoys brown sugar caramel, wasabi peanuts, and Belgium beers.  He’s inspired by his family, Chinese folk art, kids, and animals.  When he’s not coming up with silly ideas for t-shirts, vinyl toys, or paintings for gallery shows, he works as a character designer in the animation industry.  He has worked at Nickelodeon and [...]

Mindy Lee Concept Artist

Mindy Lee is currently working as a video game concept artist  in Los Angeles. She has two BFAs: One from Art Center School of Design with emphasis in Illustration and the other from San Diego State with emphasis on Graphic Design.
Her site:
http://mindydoodles.blogspot.com/

Eduardo Avenir II Animator

Eduardo, or Edo as he is sometimes called, currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.  He has been drawing ever since he was a kid.  Thankfully, he has continued his passion for art since graduating from the Bachelor of Animation program at Sheridan College where his student film ‘The Lion’s Den’ won Best 2d Animation Award for [...]

Kei Acedera Art Director

Kei Acedera was trained in Toronto, Canada. Her work has appeared perennially in Spectrum. Kei joined Imaginism Studios in Toronto in 2005 and became its Art Director. During this time, she illustrated the New York Time best-selling book, “How to Talk to Girls”. She was also a character designer for Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”, [...]

Lubomir Arsov, Independent Designer and Illustrator

Lubomir Arsov is a character designer and visual development artist residing in Toronto, Canada. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, he journeyed over the Atlantic Ocean seven hours back in time, to step upon the soil of the New World. Enthralled by the visual language of the material realm, he chose to explore it’s many variations through [...]

Patricia Ann Lewis-MacDougall

Patricia Ann studied animation and illustration at the now famous Sheridan College in Oakville Ontario.  Before graduating the latter, Pat Ann was hired by Nelvana Animation Studio as a storyboard artist for Little Bear, Franklin the Turtle, Timothy Goes to School, Flying Rhino Junior High and other Nelvana television shows.
Pat Ann has created illustrations for [...]

Eric Canete Animation and Comic Artist

ERIC CANETE is an illustrator and designer working in the animation and comic book industries. He was born in the Philippines and moved to the United States when he was 12 years old. His professional career got a very early start when at the age of 17 he assisted as a background designer and storyboard [...]

Brian Ajhar Designer Illustrator

Brian Ajhar’s career as an artist has spanned three decades. His extensive and diverse client list includes numerous magazines, newspapers, advertising agencies, corporate clients, and book publishers. His illustrated children’s books have been published worldwide in a multitude of languages and have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list.
Ajhar’s work is widely recognized for [...]

Dean Yeagle Cartoonist

Dean Yeagle has spent most of his career in animation, working first for Zander’s Animation Parlour in New York City and then with his own animation company, Caged Beagle Productions. In 2000, he began drawing cartoons for Playboy Magazine, and continues to do so on a regular basis. He publishes books featuring his [...]

Brittney Lee Animator / Designer

Brittney Lee has had a passion for drawing ever since she was old enough to hold a pencil! After graduating from the Film and Animation program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, she journeyed across the country to her new home in San Francisco. Brittney currently works as a freelance animator, designer and visual development [...]

Ken Turner Director, Independent Designer

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 [...]

John Loter Character Designer Disney

John Loter and Shelley Loter are both former Creative Directors from Disney Consumer Products. They work together as Loter, Inc., an independent creative studio with experience in product design & development, book design & illustration, animation, character design, video game development, comics, graphic design, packaging design, and retail/branding development.
Loter, Inc. has contributed to the legacy [...]

Jeremy Bernstein Story Artist

Jeremy Bernstein is a story artist and animator who has worked for Dreamworks, Sony, and Nickelodeon animation studios. His animation credits include, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Monsters vs. Aliens, Kung Fu Panda,  Shrek 2 and 3, Madagascar, Over the Hedge, and Flushed Away.  He is currently a storyboard artist on Nickelodeon’s The Penguins [...]

Nancy Beiman Animator

Nancy Beiman received a BFA in Film and Character Animation with the first graduating class in the California Institute of the Arts’ Character Animation Program and was the recipient of a four-year Disney Fellowship Grant provided by the Disney family.  She was hired before her graduation to design, animate, and storyboard television commercials for Jack [...]

Valerio Ventura Production Designer

Valerio Ventura career of over twenty-five years in the animation industry makes him one of the top development artist in the industry and his work as a multi-award winning live-action director has been receiving praises all over the world with his recent short film “Winter”. The award winning “Winter” DVD will be available at CTN-X. [...]

Scott Wright Dreamworks Animator

Scott Wright grew up in a small town in Alberta, Canada where winters are long and summers are rare. So what did this Canadian do to pass the time? You guessed it, he planned his escape. Scott now lives in Los Angeles, California, where summers are long and winters don’t exist.
After studying animation in Toronto, [...]

Stephen Silver Character Designer

Silver names three treasures to success in life that give him what  it takes  to keep  on drawing:  determination,  passion and desire.
Stephen  Silver  was  born  in  London  in 1972. Aspiring  to be a professional artist his whole life and knowing drawing would  be his vocation,  Silver got his professional  start  in 1992 drawing caricatures in [...]

Frank Hansen Cartoonist, Illustrator

Frank is a freelance illustrator/artist living in the Los Angeles area. He attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco but dropped out to study film and moved to Los Angeles.  After working a number of years in the film industry he returned to art where he belongs.
He divides his time between freelance illustration, character [...]

Bill Robinson Animator

Character animator with experience in a variety of mediums but focused on 3D computer animation. I also have strong traditional skills in storyboarding, layout, production design and character design. Comfortable with Maya, Photoshop, After Effects, Painter, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, Flipbook, Windows, OS X and Wacom tablets. Basic skills in Mental Ray, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, [...]

Mark McDonnell Independent Designer

MARK McDONNELL is a well-rounded versatile Visual Development Artist working in the Animation and Entertainment industry.  Starting his career as a toy designer for Applause, he has held a wide variety of crafts within the commercial art world before setting his sights on the Animation and Entertainment Industry.  From Toy Designer, Art Director, Theme Park [...]

Fabian Molina Traditional Animator

Fabian Molina is a Northern California based artist who specializes in and hand-drawn character animation and character design. His work is defined by a great use of gesture and shapes to bring out the personality, emotion, and action of his characters. His drawings tell a visual story that everyone can relate to. Fabian is working [...]

Donnachada Daly Animator Dreamworks

Donnachada Daly is an animator and illustrator. He is also the creator and pioneer of 3D Illustration. His artwork has broken the boundaries of the page and can be viewed in 3D without using 3D glasses.
He has worked as a Directing Animator on Shrek, Shrek 2, Madagascar and Antz. He began as a cel painter [...]

Mitchell Bernal Designer / Toy Creator

Mitchell Bernal has created art for Disney Feature Animation, Imagineering, and Disney Pictures for 15 years. His credits include Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Fantasia 2000, Mickey’s Philharmagic & Enchanted. He is the creator of Skelanimals, “Dead animals need love too,” a brand that has garnered a following of collectors with clothing, [...]

Beth Sleven Character Designer

Beth Sleven has worked at a number of studios as both a tradtional 2D and CG animator. She has animated on such films as “Looney Tunes: Back in Action”, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”, and “Curious George”, as well as a number of other films. Her more recent work [...]

Rik Maki Character Designer

Rik Maki has been creating character designs for every feature animated film from Lion King to most recently Princess and the Frog. He ahs created designs for BlueSky Studios, Laika, Sony and is the owner of Grumpy Pants Productions happily serving the animation community for 32 years.
More work by Rik Maki can be seen at [...]

Chris Kennett Animator

Chris Kennett, or Crikey as he is sometimes known, is a freelance Flash animator, illustrator and character designer, doing his best to earn a crust from his home in the country town of Bendigo, Australia. Originally hailing from the UK, Chris has worked hard to develop strong working relationships, essential for surviving as a remote [...]

Michael Amos Animator

Michael Amos is a Character Designer and Animator based in Melbourne, Australia and who has been working in the local and international animation industry for the past 14 years.
Michael has worked as a Character Artist and Designer for Disney Consumer Products developing original character art and style guides. He has also worked in new media [...]

David Colman Character Designer

David Colman is an illustrator who has been working as an Emmy winning character designer ,development artist  and story artist in the animation industry for over 8 years. He has worked for many clients such as Disney Feature Animation, Disney TV, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Imageworks, Blue Sky Studios, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, 20th Century Fox, [...]

Bobby Chiu Concept Artist

Bobby Chiu is a Toronto-based artist and the founder of Imaginism Studios. He is known for his creature concepts and other fantastical, quirky characters. Some of Bobby’s favorite themes to explore are disguise, irony, and duality. You can see his creatures in Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”, to be released in March 2010, as well [...]

Liana Hee Character Designer

Liana Hee was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has had a love for illustration since childhood and has been doing it ever since. In 2007 Liana graduated from the Art Institute of California-SF with a degree in Media Arts and Animation. Since then she has worked designing toys, characters and [...]

Vilppu Studio

Glenn Vilppu is considered one of today’s foremost draftsman and instructors in drawing and painting. Few contemporary artists have thoroughly absorbed the lessons of the great masters of the past and in addition, none have Glenn’s ability to communicate and inspire students with such knowledge and understanding.
Glenn Vilppu is trained in the classical art of [...]

Justin Orr Illustrator

Justin Orr of JUSSCOPE.COM is an illustrator based out of the Northern California area. He has worked on numerous projects ranging from animated television commercials to video game concept art. He will be exhibiting and selling books, prints and much more at the 1st CTN Animation Expo!
Help us welcome Justin Orr to CTN-X 2009. Register [...]

Stephanie Laberis Concept Artist

Stephanie Laberis is a freelance concept artist residing in Berkeley, with a love for character, creature and environment design. Her artwork is whimsical, emotional, even a little twisted or risque at times. She graduated from RISD with a BFA in Illustration in ‘04 and has worked in many fields since then, including animation, video games [...]

Ryan Hungerford Character Designer

Ryan Hungerford was made and raised in the Midwest.  Growing up, he drew in school and got detention..  Then he got detention for drawing in detention.  After High School and all the detention, he still wanted to draw.  So he made his way to the left coast and went to school at the Academy of [...]

Humberto Ramos Toy Designer

BORN IN MEXICO IN 1970. LIVES IN MEXICO CITY AND REMAINS THERE UP TO THIS DAY.  SAGITARIUS, LIKES SOCCER, AND  BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES, SUNSETS AND WISHES FOR WORLD PEACE.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER , STUDIED IN THE UAM (UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA METROPOLITANA) 1988-1992.
EXPERIENCE:
MILESTONE MEDIA penciller 1993-1994
Work in various titles such as HARDWARE, STATIC, BLOOD SYNDICATE and WORLDS COLLIDE (crossover with [...]

GirlsDrawinGirls

Girls Drawin Girls (GDG) was founded in 2006 by Simpsons veteran Melody Severns and storyboard artist Anne Walker, who started Girls Drawin’ Girls as a way to showcase female artists working in the male-heavy animation industry.  They felt it was time for these talented women to demonstrate their creative abilities and their own personal vision [...]

Joe Weatherly Industry Animal Artist

JOE WEATHERLY  is a Southern California based artist specializing in the drawing and painting of animals. His style is bold and vigorous capturing the essence and drama of the subjects he draws and paints. The attitude and expression of the animal’s character along with telling a visual story is what his work conveys. Conservation of [...]

Kathy Zielinski Dreamworks Animator

KATHY ZIELINSKI with over 21 animated feature screen credits behind her is one of a very elite group of award winning women animators in the animation industry.  Currently at Dreamworks Animation Studios for the past 10 years she graduated from California Institute of the Arts and began her career at Walt Disney Animation Studios in [...]

Ruben Procopio Master Sculptor

Rubén Procopio has been in the animation industry for over 25 yrs., with scholarships to both Cal Arts and Art Center College of Design. He later trained under Eric Larson, one of Disneys legendary nine old men.