Lou Romano (b. 1972) was born and raised in San Diego, Ca. He began drawing and painting at an early age and studied theater arts, performing in plays throughout high school. After graduating in 1990 he studied animation and film at Cal Arts from 1990-92. Lou has worked as an illustrator and designer on various [...]
Frank is a freelance Illustrator, cartoonist and artist living in the Los Angeles area. When not taking on illustration projects, he is busy working and selling his fine art prints and finishing his young adult graphic novel for the iPhone & iTouch App Store. Updates and contact information about Frank can be obtained through his [...]
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 [...]
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”, [...]
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, [...]
My Full name is Steven Pierre Gordon. I use my middle name because there are 2 Steven Gordons in Animation.
I went to school at Cal Arts. Worked at Disney Feature Animation as a 2-D Animator for 9 years (from 1993-2002.) Took 2 years off then transitioned from 2-D to 3-D at Imageworks for 2 and [...]
I love to create art, but what I love more is to create with meaning. “it’s not if you can’t do it, it’s if you want to do it.”
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 & [...]
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 [...]
The 80’s in America were a time when entertainment, advertisement, and education blended into an epic world of artistic creation. For a suburban Caucasian youth characters such as Luke Skywalker, He-Man, Burt and Ernie, Ronald McDonald, and Kermit the Frog were the third set of parents. Such characters illuminated my imagination through Television, Food, and [...]
Philip Phillipson has spent the last 20 years with Walt Disney Feature Animation. Credits include 18 theatrical filsm, 14 of them Disney. He has also worked with Hanna-Barbera, Marvel and Universal, as well as on dozens of television programs and publications.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
SCOTT MORSE is the award-winning author of multiple graphic novels and chapter books, including SOULWIND, TIGER!TIGER!TIGER!, NOBLE BOY, and Scholastic’s MAGIC PICKLE series. In animation, Morse has art directed and provided storyboards for Disney, Hanna Barbera, Cartoon Network, Universal, and Nickelodeon. He currently works as a story artist and designer for Pixar, where his credits [...]
Mark Christiansen has worked as a character designer, animator and character layout artist at a number of cartoon studios including Walt Disney Television Animation, Universal Cartoons, Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. He also has gained considerable experience in the licensing industry, having worked as a Senior Character Artist at Warner Bros. Consumer Products [...]
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!
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“Michael Daley is an animation artist living in sunny California. He has worked on many television, game, print and design projects in the role of illustrator, animator, designer and art director. See some samples of artwork at http://biocreep.blogspot.com“
“Pascal Campion is a French artist living in the Bay area.
He’s worked for the past nine years in [...]
Gabriele Pennacchioli joined DreamWorks Animation in 2003 as a lead animator on “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.” He went on to work as an animator on “Shark Tale,” “Flushed Away,” “Kung Fu Panda” and as a story artist on “Shrek the Third” and “Crood Awakening.”
Currently, Gabriele is working as an animator on “How To [...]
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 [...]
Saud Boksmati is a freelance designer and visual development artist currently residing in Toronto, Canada. After Graduating from Sheridan College in 2005 he has worked for C.O.R.E Digital and House of Cool Studios as a Character Designer and Supervisor on various shows.
In his Spare time he loves to read books on history, politics and ancient [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Robert Lence has been a major contributor on some of the highest grossing films in the history of animated features. In his twenty-year animation career, he has worked as a Head of Story, Storyboard Artist, Visual Development Artist, Screenwriter and Story Consultant, helping create original characters, writing dialogue, and shaping the story on ten major-release [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Frank is a freelance Illustrator, cartoonist and artist living in the Los Angeles area. When not taking on illustration projects he is busy working and selling his fine art prints and finishing his young adult graphic novel for the iPhone & iTouch App Store. Updates and contact information about Frank can be obtained through his [...]
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 [...]
Brad Garrett Kesten was born on June 18th, 1971 in Paterson, New Jersey.
His family relocated to the San Fernando Valley in Southern California in August of 1979. During which, Top Child Agent Evelyn Shultz of WHJ, classically “discovered” Brad at The Universal Studios Commissary while he was having lunch with his Mom.
Over the next 10+ [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Dean Yeagle was born in Philadelphia and went to art school there before getting a summer job at a small animation company, Animation Arts Associates. After a four year hitch in the US Navy, and marriage to Barbara (a children’s illustrator, painter and musician), he worked at Zander’s Animation Parlour in NYC, for Jack Zander, [...]
We’re a team of female pinup artists called GirlsDrawinGirls. Since 2006, we’ve made it our mission to make our own name in a male-dominated industry, re-defining what is sexy from a uniquely feminine perspective. There are 30 artists altogether in the group. Our two volumes of pinup art – “A Girl in Time” and “Once [...]
Fox TV Animation Artists JOHN BANH is currently working as an Assistant Director on “Family Guy”. He has been in the animation industry for 10 years and has worked as a storyboard artist at Film Roman, Cartoon Network and Fox TV Animation. John was first introduced to animation when he attended the ROP after school [...]
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, [...]
Fabian Molina is a Northern California based artist who specializes in character design and traditional hand-drawn animation. 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 has worked in [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Raised on Hollywood, sports and rock and roll music, David O’Keefe has an acute awareness for the images and personalities that have colored the lives of his generation. He just sees things differently – more intensely, edgier, somewhat more perspicuous than the average spectator. The pop culture icons that we idolize, glamorize and glorify, O’Keefe [...]
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 [...]
DON BLUTH, trained by the nine old men is one of the original pioneers of independent animation filmmaking. As an animator, producer and director he was invited by 20th Century Fox to move to Phoenix, Arizona to co-helm the creation of Fox Animation Studio in 1994, following an already illustrious career in the animation industry [...]
BEN BALISTRERI is an Emmy Award winning designer for his work on “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends”. He’s been nominated for 6 Annie awards for his character designs and storyboards on shows like “Foster’s”, “Danny Phantom”, and “Crash Nebula”. He’s currently working at DreamWorks as a storyboard artist.
I’ll be selling my full color 64 page [...]
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 [...]
DAVID COLMAN is a character designer and development artist in the animation industry. He has worked for such studios as Sony Pictures Animation (Open Season, Surfs Up), Sony Imageworks (Polar Express), Sony TV Animation(Boondocks), Cartoon Network (Class of 3000), Disney Feature Animation (King of the Elves, various undisclosed projects), and is currently doing character design [...]
HARALD SIEPERMANN was born 10th of June 1962 in Bochum Germany . He studied Art and Illustration at the Folkwang School in Essen and startet early to work for Advertising – Agencies in Düsseldorf London and Zürich.
For almost 20 years Harald is designing characters for a range of animation-studios worldwide most notably for WALT DISNEY [...]
ROBIN JOSEPH currently works as a freelance designer , collaborating closely with directors and writers developing the look, characters and visual language for their worlds! He has designed on projects for House Of Cool, Bluesky Sudios, Laika Entertainment, Illumination Entertainment and Sony Pictures Animation.
In his spare time he chisels away developing his short film [...]
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 [...]
DAVE ZABOSKI has always been drawing. From the start, he has pulled images from his imagination and observed the motion and emotion from life, filled a thousand sketchbooks, and can always be found with a drawing pen in his pocket and blank pages nearby.
He has been a professional at this for twenty years and has [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
JASON RYAN was Supervising Animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios for almost twelve years and is now Supervising Animator at DreamWorks Animation Studios.
After graduating from the European School of Animation (aka Senior College, Ballyfermot), Ireland in 1993, with a student of the year award from Don Bluth (creator of An American Tail and Land Before [...]
Stefan G. Bucher is the man behind 344 Design, and dailymonster.com. His Monsters have invaded computer screens and book shelves all over the world. A new edition of his first book All Access—The Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic Designers was just published in Taiwan, and his upcoming book The Graphic Eye — Photographs by Graphic [...]
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 [...]
DAVY LIU’S passion for his work was instilled in him from the very beginning. His family immigrated to the United States from Taiwan when he was just thirteen. He found refuge during this transition in his natural talent – art – as he struggled to adapt to the new culture and language. At twenty, he [...]
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.
