Title: 20/20 Visions with Headless Productions
Hosted by The Creative Talent Network
Length 45 min
Join this innovative creative group and hear first hand how they started collaborating, see some of their previous works, and find out how they went about creating Headless Productions and what their future goals are. They will be showing teasers [...]
Title: 60 feet to 60 inches: Nickelodeon’s Success with Taking Feature Quality from the Big Screen to the Small Screen
Length: 45 min
Nickelodeon Animation Studio’s CG production team, Rusty Tracy (The Penguins of Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, Fanboy and Chum Chum), Jason Stiff (Invader Zim), Jim Schumann (Robot and Monster), Randy Dormans (Kung Fu Panda), Freddie Vaziri [...]
Title: A Moment with Magic
CTNX 2011
Length 30min
CTN animation eXpo is proud to present a very special treat for our guests. Master composer and brilliant individual will share his amazing talent and songs with us as he plays the piano on Friday night. Richard Sherman is a National Treasure and un-renewable American resource. You don’t want [...]
AARON SIMPSON is the Founder of Cold Hard Flash (coldhardflash.com), a popular news and entertainment site focusing on the rapidly expanding universe of Flash animation. Animation Magazine called the site “one of the 13 platforms reshaping our world.”
Simpson is an Emmy-nominated Producer of “Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island,” a Flash-animated series that aired on Kids’WB! [...]
Title: Across the Great “D” – Vide
Sponsored by Dreamworks Animation
Length 45 min
Listen to those animators who made it across from 2D to 3D in this candid round table discussion. Find out what makes it across and what doesn’t as you listen to the key ingredients from those who made it “Across the great “D”-vide” while [...]
Title: Act 1: The Story Begins.
Hosted by The Creative Talent Network
Length 45min
Join this eclectic group of professional story artists as they take us step by step through the world of creating visual stories. The challenges they face and the inspiration that drives them. Do they simply illustrate scripts? How do they work with the writers? [...]
CTNX Exclusive Event Sketchbook Program
The Creative Talent Network puts “The Talent Center Stage” at the 4th Annual CTN Animation eXpo. As the official hub for the citywide proclamation of Animation Week, the CTN eXpo celebrates and honors both the individuals and studios whose spectacular contributions can be seen [...]
Alex is a story artist at Pixar Animation Studios. He has worked on the films Ratatouille, WALL-E, Cars 2, and 1906 (unreleased). He is currently working on Pixar’s untitled 2013 film.
Alex has a B.F.A. in Film/TV Production from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He also directed and produced the short film “Rex Steele: [...]
Stuart Sumida is a professor of Biology at California State University San Bernardino where he teaches animal and human anatomy. He is the author of three books and over 100 scientific articles. His work on animal structure and function led Charles Solomon to suggest him to the Disney Studios to help with the structure of [...]
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 [...]
Andy Ristaino is currently working as a character designer on the cartoon network show Adventure Time and Finn and Jake. When not drawing crazy creature for work he can be found drawing comics in his free time. He has had two trade paperbacks published by SLG comics, Escape from Dullsville and the Babysitter. [...]
Angela Lepito is the Production Manager for DreamWorks Animation’s Artistic Development program and Training department. In her role she is responsible for programming, events and training initiatives. She joined the company in 2004 in a Production Supervisor role on the television series, “Father of the Pride.” Following that, she worked on “Bee Movie” as Production [...]
Aniboom is the first virtual animation studio in the world, bridging the gap between the global community of independent animators and the professional animation industry in all its forms: cinema, television, web, mobile, music videos, digital gaming, and advertising.
Since its founding in 1996 by CEO Uri Shinar, a former television executive with decades of broadcasting [...]
Title: Animals & Creatures Animation Breakdown
Length 55min
Sponsored by Animation Mentor
In this panel, animators will provide an inspiring overview of what makes visual effects and creatures animation awesome and unique. Panelists will breakdown a shot and discuss their process for breathing life into their characters. You’ll see video reference and behind-the-scenes footage (woot!). Panelists will discuss [...]
Title: Animation and Comic Book Cross-Polenization
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length: 45min
Description: It all applies when you start looking at animation. One of if not the most collaborative and inclusive mediums let’s listen to these comic and graphic novel artists talk about and show us what applies and crosses over from the huge world of [...]
Title:Animation Insiders
length 40mins
Filmed on November 2010
Moderator Tenny Chonin Director of Artist and Professional Development at Walt Disney Animation Studios, Tenny Chonin combined her teaching and artistic experience to develop programs designed to enrich the creative lives of the Disney artists.
Tenny led the department that conceived and produced all training and enrichment activities for the feature [...]
AnimSchool is the premiere online school for the broader world of 3D animation. AnimSchool instructors are 3D animation pros by day, and teach animation, modeling and rigging after work. Students at AnimSchool learn how to MAKE characters and how to MOVE characters!
AnimSchool is about characters. We focus on appealing, flexible, super-expressive characters–and some of them [...]
Anthony Jones started actually as a video game programmer, but found himself very interested in the world of art. He attended the Art Institute of Orange County for a while, then pursued freelance character design for companies such as; Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast, Specular, Big Tree Games, K2 network, and Roblox. He also worked for a [...]
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 [...]
Bernard is a graduate from the Animation program at Sheridan College. He has worked as a character designer and visual development artist for various studios in Canada such as C.O.R.E Digital Pictures, Cuppa Coffee Studios, House of Cool and has worked for clients like Warner Brothers and Disney Toons.
Bernard currently lives in Toronto, Canada, where [...]
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 [...]
BILL KROYER is an award-winning director of animation and computer graphics commercials, short films, movie titles and theatrical films. Listen to him here…
Mr. Plympton is considered the King of Indie Animation and is the only person to hand draw an entire animated feature film.
Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, he graduated from Portland State University in Graphic Design. Bill Plympton moved to New York City in 1968. He began his career creating cartoons for publications such as [...]
Bill Robinson is a 27 year old illustrator and animator living in Berkeley, CA. Bill is a graduate of the Film and Animation program at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is currently a Lead Artist at Kabam, where he develops massively multiplayer online strategy games for Facebook. In addition to his day job in games, [...]
BLAKE SNYDER passed away suddenly August 4, 2009, from cardiac arrest. There was no one like him and all who knew him know that. No one more enthusiastic, more giving, more truly interested in “you”. He will live on in his films and his books, and in the advice that will never grow old, with [...]
BLUECANVAS.COM is a community comprised of quality artists from different creative, academic and cultural backgrounds. BLUECANVAS magazine is a printed manifestation of our wonderful community. As a multi-genre, collection-book style magazine, we hope to give the artists from our online community well deserved exposure. We believe that the world will benefit from and enjoy viewing [...]
Title: Boarders Without Borders
Hosted by StoryboardArt.org
Length 45min
Are you prepared to handle clients across the country, or even halfway across the world? In this fast changing world of digital art and social networking, it is more important than ever to be able to market yourself as versatile storyboard artist. In this presentation you will [...]
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 [...]
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+ [...]
Compiling, designing, editing and publishing the finest pop culture art books from the finest independent artists in the planet.
Art books made by artists for artists.
http://www.brandstudiopress.com
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 [...]
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 [...]
Title: Bringing Characters to Life in Disney Theme Parks
Sponsored by Walt Disney Imagineering
Length 45 min
A panel discussion and overview of what it means to translate Disney characters from film and television to theme parks and attractions. Panelists from Walt Disney Imagineering will cover the past, present and future of Disney characters in theme parks, providing [...]
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 [...]
Title: Broad Discussions of Animation
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length: 45 mins
Description: Hear about the before, during and beyond a career in animation from these female icons in the industry. What were the expectations, the experiences and the reality of utilizing the various skills and talents that are required to be successful in this industry [...]
Bruce Block is the author of THE VISUAL STORY, the widely read book on the relationship between visual structure and story structure. He conducts seminars at every major animation studio, computer game companies and advertising agencies in America and Europe. Bruce is also on the faculty at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts where he teaches [...]
Cale Atkinson is an illustrator/animator currently residing lakeside in Kelowna Canada.
Believing in Tea more than sleep, Cale is constantly working on numerous projects. His work can be found in children’s books, animated shorts, television, and games. He is currently lead artist for Rocketsnail Games spending much of his time developing the exciting new property ‘Mech [...]
Cale Atkinson is an illustrator/animator currently residing lakeside in Kelowna Canada.Believing in Tea more than sleep, Cale is constantly working on numerous projects.His work can be found in children’s books, animated shorts, television, and games.He is currently lead artist for Rocketsnail Games spending much of his time developing the exciting new property ‘Mech Mice’.
*Trivia* Cale [...]
Acclaimed artist and Annie Award winner Carter Goodrich has illustrated sixteen New Yorker covers and has worked as a character designer on many beloved animated films, including Ratatouille; Monsters, Inc.; Finding Nemo; and the latest being Despicable Me as well as many animation feature films from Pixar, DreamWorks Animaton and Walt Disney Studios. He is [...]
Having trained as an animator at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, she’s also skilled in illustration, character design and toy prototyping. In addition to the work Catherine has done for Piximix LLC, she also runs her own successful venture, A Green Cat Productions, where her unique designs have been published in magazines [...]
Cecil Kim has been working as a concept artist and illustrator in the entertainment industry for the past 15 years. Cecil received his BFA in Illustration from Art Center College of Design. After graduating, he was employed at Square USA, Inc., where he worked on the Parasite Eve and Final Fantasy IX projects. He later [...]
Title: What’s Up Doc? Challenge of the Looney Tunes
Presented by Warner Bros
Length (45 min)
Moderator: JAY BASTIAN (Vice President, Series Warner Bros. Animation) was named Vice President, Series, at Warner Bros. Animation (WBA), in September 2009, reporting to Sam Register, WBA’s Executive Vice President, Creative Affairs.
In this position, Bastian oversees the development of animated comedy television [...]
Title: Character Building and Brand Licensing
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length: 45 mins
Filmed in November 2010
Jeanette Smith has more than 25 years experience in the marketing and licensing industries, including building the Dilbert™ brand from its infancy to a global corporate icon. Jeanette’s early career success in advertising led her to New York City where [...]
Title: Character Designers: Creating Identities
Length 45 min
Filmed on November 2010
Sponsored by the Creative Talent Network
Description: Join feature film creators Chen Yi-Chang, Joe Moshier and Jean Gillmore together in this rare appearance outside the large studio walls while they share their passion for “creating identities”. There are reasons why Feature Film character design is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Chris currently works as a Character Designer on the Planes franchise at DisneyToon Studios.
Along with IDW published creator Lora Innes, he co-hosts The Paper Wings Podcast. The show helps Visual Storytellers make, market and monetize their creator-owned comics, picture books and short films.
In 2010, Chris established the Paper Wings Apprenticeship Program to provide a personalized, [...]
Christophe Lautrette is a visual development artist from France currently working at DreamWorks Animation Studios. He is also one of the amazing contributors to the first publication of “Moonshine”.
DreamWorks’ first personal art publication, Moonshine, was conceived as an opportunity to highlight the breath of artistic development talent at the studio. The Artistic Development department [...]
Title: Clay Underneath My Nails
Length: 45 min
Filmed November, 2010
An inside look at the past, present and future of being a sculptor and contributing maquettes in the animation and surrounding fields. Join legendary sculptors and Z-Brush artists and hear insights into how this process evolved? How do a sculptors skill set cross boundaries [...]
Title: Color Scripting a Feature Film
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length 45 min
For every animated film a color script is created, which is essentially an at a glance look at the color keys and tones for the entire film. A color script gives you a good look at how the color arcs in a film [...]
Corel® Painter™ 11 is the ultimate art studio for anyone ready to expand their definition of creativity. When it comes to your art, the uniqueness of your work depends on your imagination and your ability to express it. With Painter, you can grow your digital darkroom and create the art you’ve always envisioned with the most [...]
Founded in 2006 and based in Gothenburg, Sweden, Craft Animations™ is a developer of real-time 3D animation tools, called Craft Director Tools™, which streamline production times by nearly 90 percent, saving the user both time and money.
Based on cutting-edge research in neural networking, artificial intelligence and autonomous control systems, Craft Director Tools extend creative possibilities [...]
California-native Craig Elliott has been creating art for as long as he can remember. Fueled by an intense curiosity about the natural world, Elliott built elaborate dioramas as a child before taking up painting. After receiving training from greats such as Harry Carmean and Burne Hogarth at Art Center College of Design, Elliott began a [...]
Title: Creating Inside the Spiral with Creative Consultant Dave Zaboski
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Filmed November 2010
Length: 30min
Dave Zaboski picked up a crayon in kindergarten and never put it down. Educated at UCSB, Université de Poitiers in France, and Art Center College of Design, he has a deep traditional understanding of art. In 1990 Dave [...]
Title: Creating the Pitch Bible
Sponsored by ToonBoom
Filmed Nov 2010
45 min
Heather Kenyon is the Vice President of Project Development and Sales for Starz Animation, a Division of Starz Media. She is the former senior director of development, original series at Cartoon Network, where she focused on thedevelopment of animated comedy, comedy adventure, [...]
The Creative Talent Network says “Thank You”
A grass roots effort like CTN-x takes a special kind of commitment to the project and a passion for the subject matter for it to succeed without the kind of major corporate backing or salaried paychecks found at larger events. Those efforts and sacrifices so often [...]
CTNX 2010 “It’s a Wrap”
AMAZING … ONE OF A KIND … BETTER THAN EVER … SO NEEDED IN OUR INDUSTRY
The CTN animation eXpo for the second year in a row is a smash success and with your continued dedication to “the talent” we are clearly here to stay! I am proud to report that [...]
CTNX 2011 “Sneak Peak”
AMAZING … ONE OF A KIND … BETTER THAN EVER … SO NEEDED IN OUR INDUSTRY
(coming soon)
And the survey says …….. “CTN animation eXpo is a HIT!”
Historians tell us that the most important ingredient for a Renaissance is an openness to new ideas and external traditions. For example, the Great Renaissance which began in 14th century Europe resulted from the new cross fertilization of biblical traditions, classical Greek philosophical traditions, and [...]
The Ctrl-Zs are a collective of friends and artists who work in the Flash Animation industry. Collectively, they have worked on animated shows for Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, HBO, MTV, and more.
Organized by Daisy Church of Girls Drawin Girls, The Ctrl-Zs are a group of like-minded artists that help promote each other and market their talents [...]
Dahveed Kolodny-Nagy -(Creator, Writer, Director, Art Director/Designer) Kolodny-Nagy is a versatile artist whose background in film directing and comic books landed him jobs in the art department on many shows for companies fromComedy Central to abc and Sci-Fi Channel. Currently he is now the creative director of his own company, Smorgasbord Productions, an independent animation [...]
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 [...]
David Burgess does not have any time to get into trouble – he has been busy enough animating!
Dave was most recently Head of Character Animation on DreamWorks Animation’s March 2009 release, “Monsters vs. Aliens.” Prior to Monsters vs Aliens, he was Head of Character Animation on the mini-movie “Hammy’s Boomerang Adventure,” and has been a [...]
David Colman is an illustrator who has been working as an Emmy winning character designer, development artist, story artist and art director in the animation industry for over 10 years. He has worked for many clients such as Disney Feature Animation, Disney TV, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Imageworks, Blue Sky Studios, Jim Henson, Hasbro, Cartoon [...]
David DePasquale, a 23 year old recent graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, is a character designer/story artist who’s done work for print, storyboards for indie films, and freelance sculpture and character design, and is generally a small man with big ideas.
A New Jersey native, he currently lives and works in New York City. [...]
David G. Derrick Jr. is a story artist at Dreamworks feature animation and has worked on the films Megamind, How to Train Your Dragon, Bee Movie, and Flushed Away. David Derrick is an author and illustrator having written and illustrated Sid the Squid and Kadogo the next big thing. A wildlife artist and bronze sculptor, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Digital Domain is a visual effects and animation company based in Venice, Los Angeles, California. The company is known for creating state-of-the-art digital imagery for feature films, television advertising, interactive visual media and the video game industry. Digital Domain also provides technical software solutions for the visual effects and animation industry.
Website:
http://www.digitaldomain.com/
Don Hahn produced the Disney classic Beauty and the Beast, the first animated film to receive a Best Picture Oscar® nomination from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and to win a Golden Globe® for Best Picture. His next film, The Lion King, broke box office records all over the world to become [...]
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 [...]
Title: Down the Rabbit Hole with Alice
Hosted by Sony Pictures Animation
Length: 45 min
Schaub has received multiple nominations for individual achievement in character animation by the Visual Effects Society. His first nomination was for STUART LITTLE 2 as a supervising animator for which he won that year’s award for Best Character Animation in an Animated Motion [...]
Title: Dragon’s Flight School
Length: 48 mins
Filmed November, 2010
Simon Otto has been a key artist at DreamWorks Animation for nearly 13 years. As Head of Character Animation, he most recently developed and designed the animation style for DreamWorks Animation’s “How to Train Your Dragon.”
He previously worked as an animator on “Bee Movie” and as a [...]
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 [...]
Class: DYNAMIC DIALOGUE
Taught by Pilar Alessandra
Length: 45min
Learn quick and effective writing techniques to revive bland exchanges, tune up character voices, create relationship tension and bring life to the page. Unique writing tools and techniques help you create memorable lines of dialogue, engaging screen patter and monologues that make the page come alive.
Biography: PILAR ALESSANDRA
Writing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Chris Oatley has worked as a visual development artist and a content creator in the entertainment industries for six years. Chris has worked in visual development on films at Disney and The Weinstein Company. He has developed music videos for Geffen Records and he directed one for EMI. He has also worked in development on [...]
Enrico Casarosa lives in San Francisco, making a living as a storyboard artist at Pixar Animation studios. He has been in the animation industry for over 10 years drawing storyboards for animated feature films. He no longer lives off pasta and japanese cartoons as he used to back in italy. Sadly, while he still watches [...]
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 [...]
Eric Goldberg, a veteran Director, Designer and Animator, has worked extensively in New York, London and Hollywood creating feature films, commercials, title sequences and television specials. He is equally at home with traditional hand-drawn animation and the most up-to-date computer animation, and has pioneered ground-breaking techniques in both worlds.
Eric’s animation knowledge started early, creating flip [...]
Founded in 2009 by Jason Schachter, Essential Sequential serves artists in the Comic, Animation and Illustration field for art sales, representation and management. Essential Sequential artists include Eric Canete, Mindy Lee, Stephane Roux, Peter Ngyuen, Mike Choi, Ming Doyle, and Axel Ortiz.
Eunjung June Kim is an animator and illustrator who lives in San Francisco. She originally studied graphic design, but moved to California to study and pursue her dream as an animator and illustrator. She graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts degree in 2D Animation from the Academy of Art University. After graduating, she worked [...]
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 [...]
FLEET STREET SCANDAL was created in 2006 by Kevin Dart and Chris Turnham. Both artists share a common desire to create high quality printed material and artthat would look great on the wall. Since opening, Fleet Street has shipped prints across the globe, published two hit books, Fleet Street Scandal: A Collection and Seductive Espionage: [...]
Title: Flexibility is the Key to Career Longevity
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length 30min
Description:
Common sense lessons that seem simple but are key to a having a long career in this business. Darren has built a career on not only his talent but based on being flexible, having a can do attitude and always being willing [...]
Forrest Card is a character artist and illustrator.
He has always had a huge passion for animation and motion pictures. For as long as he can remember he has been watching and drawing cartoons.
Since his graduation from the Art Center College of Design he has worked on a variety of projects creating and drawing characters for [...]
Title: Four Generations of Influence by Ronald Searle
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length 45 min
A timeless discussion between industry members whose careers were heavily influenced by Ronald Searle along with students who have just discovered Mr. Searle’s work and find out why everyone at Disney in the 50’s bought a Mont Blanc fountain pen. You [...]
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 & [...]
FRANK FORTE is an accomplished designer, storyboard artist and comic book artist. He has worked in animation for feature films, TV and gaming. Frank’s credits include: Bob’s Burgers, Allen Gregory, The Super Hero Squad Show, Hero 108, Marvel Heroes 4D, Lego Hero Factory, Lego Bionicle:The Legend Reborn, HI HI PUFFY AMI YUMI, Re-Animated Pilot (Out [...]
Frank M Hansen (FM Hansen) is an independent artist living in Los Angeles working in illustration, comics, animation and design. He is also the creator of Animatic Press for posting his personal comics and a platform to discover new w-
ays to combine animation and fine art with sequential art of storytelling.
His work has been featured [...]
Title: From Balloon Guy to Bluesky
Sponsored by Bluesky Animation Studios
Length: 45 min
Description: Join me in welcoming to the CTN animation eXpo in this rare exclusive opportunity to meet, see and hear about the amazing career of Oscar® winning film director, producer, and co-founder of Blue Sky Studios Chris Wedge.
Moderator Bill Kroyer is an award-winning director [...]
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 [...]
Since his early childhood in Chicago, Illinois, Gary Montalbano has always had a passion for art, design and storytelling. Inspired to create characters and worlds that have not existed before, Gary now works as a conceptual designer, development artist and art director. His professional design work and published personal art have been influential [...]
Genevieve Tsai has been a Concept Artist in the video game industry for over 6 years among companies such as Activision, Electronic Arts, Ghostbot, and Sanzaru Games. She currently works at Zynga in San Francisco as a Senior Artist. Genevieve graduated with a Masters in 2D Animation & Visual FX from the Academy of Art [...]
Title: Getting from Cal Arts to Directly Animation for Live Action
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length: 45 min
Filmed: Nov 2010 Posted January 2011
Description: Listen in on this rare exclusive opportunity to hear first hand from Cal Arts alumni Chris Bailey as he shares secrets and tips from his career in this candid interview moderated [...]
Title: Getting Noticed Social Networking and other essentials for freelancing artists
Sponsored by The creative Talent Network
Filmed November 2010
Length 30min
Description: Bobby Chiu discusses the techniques of becoming noticed as an artist and making a name for yourself. How he used social media and other essentials to attract top character designing jobs as a freelance artist living [...]
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 [...]
GUY VASILOVICH brings an illustrious animation, cartooning and musical background to film and television. He is the creator of National Geographic’s first animates series: “IGGY ARBUCKLE” and YTV’s Gemini nominated: “MOVILLE MYSTERIES”
He has directed, developed, designed and written animated shows for NICKELODEON, WARNER BROS, UNIVERSAL, COMEDY CENTRAL and DISNEY and has served as FILM ROMAN’S [...]
GUY VASILOVICH brings an illustrious animation, cartooning and musical background to film and television. He is the creator of National Geographic’s first animates series: “IGGY ARBUCKLE” and YTV’s Gemini nominated: “MOVILLE MYSTERIES”
He has directed, developed, designed and written animated shows for NICKELODEON, WARNER BROS, UNIVERSAL, COMEDY CENTRAL and DISNEY and has served as FILM ROMAN’S [...]
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 [...]
Heather Kenyon is the Vice President of Project Development and Sales for Starz Animation, a Division of Starz Media. She is the former senior director of development, original series at Cartoon Network, where she focused on thedevelopment of animated comedy, comedy adventure, action adventure and live-action series for children 6-11 years old. Prior to joining [...]
Title: How I Sell the Pitch
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length 20 min
Guy Vasilovich brings an illustrious animation, cartooning, and musical background to film and television. He currently serves as Executive Producer and Creator on his own animated series for YTV in Canada titled, “MOVILLE MYSTERIES” starring the voice of Frankie Muniz. A comedy/adventure series [...]
Title: How I Turn Designs Into Toys
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length 20 min
Mitchell Bernal Professional Industry Artist and 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 [...]
Title: How To Steer Your Career Over All Terrain
Sponsored by GreenlightJobs
Length 45 min
Options options options. You are not going to want to miss this engaging discussion between Greenlight Jobs Founder Lisa Kaye and recruiters from Feature Film Studios, Freelance Talent Agencies, and TV Studios discussing “human resources” and the art of getting a job and [...]
Howard has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University and has studied Film at New York University. He has worked with Marvel, DC, DarkHorse, and Image. He is the creator-writer-inker of “Gun Fu,” “Gazillion,” and “Intrigue” and the creator-writer of “Hyperkinetic.” His newest work is the antholgy “Fusillade” which he has written [...]
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 [...]
Title: The Independant Feature Filmmakers
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length 45 min
Outside of the big box studio system there are independent filmmakers fueled with passion, ideas and creative drive that embark on the amazing journey of creating a feature length animated film as an independent. This round table discussion takes us on that jouney as [...]
Ivan Aguirre is an Illustrator living and working In Southern California in the Animation Industry as a Background Designer, and Painter. He was born to hardworking Mexican family, and raised in the sunny suburbs of Los Angeles. His work Is Inspired by childhood, cartoons, children’s books, films, and everyday life.
Izzy is currently Lead Concept Artist for characters in the Concept Art department at Sony Santa Monica and was a major contributor to God of War 3. He is also an instructor at Red Engine, Otis School of Design, and the online school CGMW, as well as a freelance illustrator for companies like Hasbro, and [...]
J. Scott Campbell is a renowned illustrator and a world famous comic book artist with over a decade and a half in the business. Best known for his landmark series ‘Danger Girl’, where he served as both creator and artist, Scott has also created a huge fan-base over the years from his work on such [...]
James S. Baker is a freelance Storyboard, Character-Design and Visual-Development artist, currently at PIXAR (where he previously worked on “Up”,
“Wall-E”, “Ratatouille”, “Cars”, and “Finding Nemo”). Other clients include LAIKA (“Here be Monsters”) and SONY (“Hotel Transylvania”), ILM, PDI and Wild Brain.
He entered the animation industry directly out of high school at the age of 17. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Jessika von Innerebner is an illustrator-animator-concept artist who loves the heck outta what she does. That love has spanned 12 years creating interactive and visual fun for kids (and adults who act like kids), for brands like Disney™, Nintendo™ and Fisher Price™.
After a mandatory, morning espresso she loves to tackle creative projects head on. The [...]
Jim Hillin is today one of the most well-known Digital Effects artists in Hollywood. Texas born Hillin had come to southern California to seek a career as a studio musician and composer. In 1981, he had composed a soundtrack for a film in Austin, Texas for a friend, who had moved to California and was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Idea Concept Professor – Lucasfilm San Francisco & Singapore
Drawing & Sculpture Professor – Cal Arts, Gnomon, USC
Drawing & Sculpture Professor – Ngee Ann Poly – Singapore
John Mahoney has taught around the world such diverse classes as: Character Sculpture, Zbrush, Figure Drawing, Character Design, Production Design, Story Board, Stop Motion Animation, Traditional Animation, and Portfolio Development [...]
John Musker began his career at Disney in 1977. His first assignment was as an assistant animator on a short called The Small One (1978). His feature film debut came when he worked as an animator on Pete’s Dragon (1977). He was promoted to supervising animator by 1981, when he worked on The Fox and [...]
John Nevarez has been an artist within the animation industry for over 13 years, first working at Disney Television as a storyboard revisionist and storyboard artist on such shows as Pepper Ann, Kim Possible and then transitioning over as a designer for DisneyToons, where he worked on Tinkerbell, Kronk’s New Groove and Brother Bear 2. [...]
At a young age, John Park’s dream was to become an artist just like his father and older brother. The countless nights of staying up late and drawing underneath his desk surrounded by his favorite comic books and toys became the result of what John is doing today. John Park majored in Product Design and shortly after, [...]
Jose Lopez has been a character designer for over 10 years working in the Film, TV and Video Game industries. He cultivated his signature style early on, working on such animated series as “Godzilla”, “Men In Black: The Series” and “Jackie Chan Adventures”. More recently, as lead character designer, his work on “Green Lantern: First [...]
Title: July Films: Behind the Scenes with an independent 2D Filmmaker
Hosted by The Creative Talent Network
Length 45min
Mike Nguyen primary interest is the hand-drawn animation film making medium and aims to reflect beautiful thoughts toward this life on Earth.
Mike received his BFA in Character Animation at the California Institute of the Arts in 1988. Since [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A long lived passion for animation has brought Katy to CTN this year. She says, “It’s always a great joy to see the life animators breathe into static creations. I’m honored to attend CTN and have the opportunity to meet so many people I admire.” She has been working in games for 12 years [...]
Kei Acedera is the art director and co-owner of Imaginism Studios. She is known for her imaginative character designs for Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” and her best-selling childrens’ book illustrations for Harper Collins. Kei’s work can be best described as light-hearted, character-based illustrations, beautifully appealing with extreme versatility. Look out for more of Kei’s [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Kevin has worked professionally as a Character Animator and TD for the last 11 years and with 3D since the early 90’s. In addition to ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’, ‘Surfs Up’, and several ‘Spider-man’ films Kevin has worked as both a character TD and animator on such films as ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’, [...]
Khang graduated from the Art Center College of Design in 2005. Since then he has worked on various films, video games and music videos as a concept artist. His current role is the creative vision for Adhesive Games. He likes to eat noodles and travel to exotic places.
Kris was born and raised on a goat farm in Delaware Ontario Canada. He attended Sheridan College where he studied “Classical Animation” (drawing on paper). Kris has worked across the industry from television to Feature Film as an Animator, Designer, Story Artist, and Director, including such films as Surf’s Up, Open Season, Aardman’s upcoming Arthur [...]
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 [...]
Lee White is a children’s book illustrator and concept artist living in Portland Oregon. He has illustrated 11 children’s books and has a new title appearing Spring of 2012 published by Viking. Recently partnered with noted artist agent Paul Rodeen, Lee is writing as well as illustrating his next three book titles. His client list [...]
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 andAnimation. Since then she has worked designing toys, characters and animating [...]
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 [...]
LOUIE DEL CARMEN Born and raised in the Philippines, Louie del Carmen is a veteran character designer, storyboard artist, board supervisor and director having worked at most of the major studios in Los Angeles. In his 15 plus years in the animation industry, Louie has garnered a reputation as a consummate professional with a tremendous [...]
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 [...]
Luke Berliner was born and raised in Northern California and moved to Los Angeles in 2006 to attended Otis College Of Art And Design. With the intent of being a fine artist, he spent the first two and half years at Otis studying traditional painting. However after completing two internships one on the film Iron [...]
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Title: Making a Short Film After Hours: How I Made ‘Leonardo’
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length: 45 mins
Filmed in November 2010
‘Leonardo’ is the award winning ten minute hand-drawn animated film by veteran story artist Jim Capobianco. In this presentation Jim will go through the top ten or so things he learned while making the short [...]
Title: Managing Talent!
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX10: Filmed Nov 2010; Posted May 2011
Length 20 min
Director/Producer Steve Hickner gives practical advice and hints on how to get into the animation industry and pitfalls to avoid once in it.
Steve Hickner has spent the past thirty years working at some of the most fabled studios in animation; [...]
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, [...]
After earning his Batchelor of Arts Degree from West Surrey College of Art and Design in Surrey, England, Mark went on to make the filmed animated short, “Father” that would later be nominated for a BAFTA and eventually win numerous awards.
Soon after, Mark started his career in earnest at the Wyatt Cattaneo Animation Studio in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
From the frozen lands of the Canadian north and fighting his way through orcs, dragons, and American tax codes with black magic. Sir Mark Sperber makes his way to CTN expo 2011 with stave and sketchbook in hand. Prepare your weak heart for his fool hearty drawing adventures in sketches!
Mark pursued his quest around the [...]
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 [...]
Max Howard created and ran studios for Disney in London, Paris, Orlando and Los Angeles, working on some of Disney’s most memorable films including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King. As President of Warner Bros Feature Animation he oversaw such hit movies as The Iron [...]
Growing up in Glendale, CA with a father who worked in animation, Megan has always been surrounded by art. She was exposed to different styles of art and film which inspired her to follow her father’s path an become an artist herself. So, she moved to San Francisco where she graduated from the Academy of [...]
Michael Amos is a Character Designer and Animator based in Melbourne, Australia 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 developing [...]
“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 [...]
Title:Mike Disa Director and Writer
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length: 45 mins
Filmed in November 2010
Help me welcome animation Director and Writer Mike Disa to CTNX 2010. After working for over ten years as an animator/story artist at studios like Disney Feature Animation, Warner Feature, Marvel, Amblin, and Hanna Barbara, Mike struck out to become an [...]
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/
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, [...]
Mobile Motion provides complete end to end motion capture systems that include rental, sales, and support. Whether you are capturing the body, face, hands, or everything at the same time, we can build and integrate a custom system for your specific production. We deal with optical based systems, inertial based systems, Active-LED systems, and now [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Title: One on One Career Interview with Tadahiro Uesuri
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length: 45min
Filmed on November 2010
Description:CTN was proud to sponsor the visit of Tadahiro Uesugi to CTNx 2010. In a very rare appearance, this interview with animation critic Charles Solomon is an opportunity for you to hear, via an interpreter, and see [...]
Title: One on One Spotlight: Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
Sponsored by Dreamworks Animation
Length 45min
Description: There is a unique journey that directors will go on to create a feature animated film for a large production studio. Join LA Film Critic Charles Solomon as he discusses some of the decisions made and the path taken by award [...]
Title: One on One with Bobby Beck and Carlos Baena
Length 45min
Filmed on November 2010
Sponsored by Animation Mentor
Description: Meet the founders of one of if not the most successful animation schools in the world Animation Mentor. Listen to Bobby Beck and Carlos Baena as they share their philosophy, dedication and passion for education and training future [...]
Animator, Illustrator, Creator and Director, Oscar Grillo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1943. Having attended Art School at the age of 16, Oscar’s passionate journey began when working in animation where his career quickly broadened into publishing cartoons in satirical magazines, illustrating books and painting. Oscar Grillo has filled every moment of his [...]
Ovi was born in Romania, in 1979. He was one year old when his dad escaped communism and ran for the border. After reaching America, he flew his family and Ovi to New York, then to Chicago, then to Arizona,
then to LA, then finally to Sacramento.
Ovi llater attended school at the academy of art in [...]
Pablo Navarro is an Animation Director, Director and Senior Character Animator. He started his career at a very young age, as an autodidact. Professionally speaking his first job into animation was final line inker, after that he jumped little by little by all the positions within a production, until he became a lead animator and [...]
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 [...]
Pascal Campion’s bio
Pascal Campion is an artist working in the fields on animation and illustration living in the bay area.
Title: Past Present and Future of Previsualization
Sponsored by The Third Floor
Length: 45min
Filmed November 2010
Title: Past Present and Future of PrevisualizationSponsored by The Third FloorLength: 45minFilmed November 2010
In 2002, Chris Edwards joined a team of digital artists at Lucasfilm, that were tasked with previsualizing Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. Afterwards, Edwards [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
PATRICK MORGAN is a Detroit, Michigan native who initially moved to Los Angeles
to pursue his music career as a bass player. His “other” passion of
drawing enabled him to make his way into the animation industry to help
him pay the bills. He began his career as an illustrator working for
Disney, Warner Bros, along with other various [...]
Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Paul Wee grew up obsessed with comics, sci-fi, art and monsters. Moving from Hawaii to Los Angeles in 1984, he found a city full of cool stuff he was looking for, and promptly began to study to be an artist at Otis/Parsons, The California Art Institute, Associates in Art, [...]
Some of the fantastic talent from Disney’s visual development team have joined together to release an independent art book. This collection of personal work features the unique illustrated visions of over 20 artists.
Meet a few of the artists at this years eXpo. Original art from the book and other new work will be on display [...]
Title: A Spotlight Career Interview with Peter de Sève
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted Sept 2010
Length 20 min
PETER de SÈVE’S illustration and character designs are known throughout the world. His work spans three decades and various media, including magazines, books, print and television advertising, animated feature films and magazines. Best recognized [...]
Peter Emmerich is an acclaimed Illustrator who has enjoyed an extensive relationship with The Walt Disney Company. Two days after graduating from The Fashion Institute of Technology, he began his career as a character artist for Walt Disney Consumer Products. Less than three years later, he was promoted to Chief Illustrator and Official Character Artist [...]
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.
Help us welcome Phil Phillipson to CTN-X 2009. Register Now http://www.regonline.com/ctnanimationexpo2009
Title: Pixie Dust to Pixels
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length 45 min
Listen in with veteran animators as they discuss the role of EFX in animation and the journey from Pixie Dust to Pixels.
Moderator Henk Dawson:
I started my Seattle, Washington-based illustration and animation business in 1989. Since then, I have been working with clients such as [...]
Title: Portfolio Strategies for Success
Hosted by The Creative Talent Network
Length 45min
Filmed in November 2010
Robert St. Pierre is a Production Designer, Visual Development, Layout Artist and Key Note Speaker with 19 years experience in the animation industry.
Originally born and raised in New England, Robert attended Paier College of Art, a private art school located in Hamden, [...]
Help CTN welcome, in a US Exclusive Appearance, French Graphic Novel Artist Règis Loisel. In 1972, when Régis Loisel was 20, he made his comics debut in the magazine, Pieds Nickéles. At that time he was still in college at the University of Vincennes, where he was taking courses in creating comics. These courses were [...]
Renegade Animation was founded in 1992 with the aim of producing outstanding animation, providing exceptional service and fostering a supportive and creative environment for its employees. The studio made its initial splash in commercial animation and one of its first projects, the Nike Superbowl spot “Aerospace Jordan” was one of the most successful commercials of [...]
Ricardo de los Angeles graduated from the Character Animation Program at CalArts. A small town boy with big city dreams, he has pursued career in L.A. as a Cartoonist, Caricature Artist and Animator, providing artistic services for those in need ofthem! He’s a prolific sketcher, often seen at coffee shops doodling away, hoping you won’t [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Passionate about drawing and designing characters, Robert Tsai has made it his interest to use simplicity as the chosen style to capture the essence of his subjects. His love of animals is often shown throughout his sketches, and his interest in Chinese cultures and characters are becoming a base of his recent creations.
Currently, Robert just [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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. [...]
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 [...]
The mission of the Entertainment Technology program is to provide students with a comprehensive and well rounded education in rapidly evolving media fields. The Entertainment Technology curriculum is designed to meet the changing needs of the entertainment industry. Entertainment Technology courses are comprehensive and rigorous, covering areas such as Animation, Game Development, Post-Production, Visual Effects [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Scott T. Petersen is an Animator/Director who has worked for several major studios including, Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, Universal and Columbia/tri-star. His movie credits include Space Jam, The Iron Giant, Pigglet’s Big Movie,Mickey’s Three Musketeers, The Lion King 1 ½ , The Fox and the Hound 2, Tarzan 2, Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes [...]
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, [...]
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