Exhibitors, New Talent

Sueann Williams

Sueann Williams

Sueann Williams was born on the tiny island of Trinidad and Tobago. She grew up in New Jersey then voyaged to San Francisco to study Illustration. After many moons she graduated with a BFA from the Academy of Art University. She is currently a Junior Game Artist at Storm8 in Redwood City and enjoys working [...]

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Abe Taraky

Abe Taraky

I am a visual development/concept artist that blends a series of artistic styles and approaches. Having worked with a number of studios, I consider myself fortunate enough to have been able to create work that ranges from being very stylized to hyper realistic. Although my work requires me to exclusively use digital software, I do [...]

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Adam Knight – The Art of Adam Knight

Adam Knight – The Art of Adam Knight

Adam Knight is an animator and artist from the San Francisco bay area with roots in the midwest. He earned his BFA at The Illinois Institute of Art – Schaumburg in Media Arts & Animation, which lead to a job in the video game industry upon graduation. His passion to work in the animation industry [...]

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Amos Sussigan

Amos Sussigan

Amos Sussigan (b. 1989 in Switzerland) feels comfortable in the roles of visual designer, director in various (short) films, art director, radio personality, and writer. Amos has always been a restless, creative soul, never interested in the obvious or the easily-obtained. Amos completed his diploma in Languages (Italian, English, Spanish, French, and German) in Switzerland, [...]

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Andre Avillanoza

Andre Avillanoza

I am a graduate of Sheridan college. I am an independent designer/animator and I have recently finished up first short film called ‘Tag’ for my final year at Sheridan. I am currently exploring a variety of ideas for a new short and I am also working with a few other graduates to create a short [...]

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Anthony Gutierrez

Anthony Gutierrez

Born and raised in Southern California, Anthony will be graduating from Laguna College of Art and Design in May 2013 with a BFA in Character Animation. Though his passion lies with traditional and computer generated character animation, he also loves storyboarding, character design and film editing. He seeks a position as a character animator or [...]

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Carl Beu – School of Hard Knocks

Carl Beu – School of Hard Knocks

Carl Beu is a digital painter and illustrator living in Hollywood. He most recently finished painting backgrounds on Disney XD’s Motorcity. Some of his other credits include Tom Hanks’ Electric city, the Murder She Wrote PC game, and the MMO series Sacred Seasons. His favorite inspirations are expressionistic artists, foreign cultures, and just about anything [...]

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Daniel James Best

Daniel James Best

Daniel James Best has been a student of local (and online) book stores, learning from generous professionals via their books and luckily, sometimes their friendly advice (he’s also a graduate of the University of Technology, Sydney’s Bachelor of Information Technology program). Plus, invaluable Schoolism and local art courses too. In the Fall of 2012 he’s [...]

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Eddie Betancourt – Lutraphobic

Eddie Betancourt – Lutraphobic

Eddie Betancourt formed a bad habit: an addiction to ‘drawing’. This addiction (what he called a ‘passionate obsession’) drove him to do the unthinkable. He would pursue a degree in Media Arts and Animation at the Art Institute of Tampa in Florida, unearthing a dangerous love for character design. Currently he is snacking on freelance [...]

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Elioli Art – Elena and Olivia Ceballos

Elioli Art – Elena and Olivia Ceballos

Elena and Olivia Ceballos (AKA ELIOLI) are 18 year-old twin sisters who live along the Golden Isles of Brunswick, Georgia. They specialize in visual development and character design. Their passion for art has been with them since an early age, but their interest in animation was ignited after watching the DreamWorks film Spirit: Stallion of [...]

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Emily Quinn

Emily Quinn

Emily Quinn grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah and knew she wanted to be an animator at the ripe age of 15. She moved to Burbank, California to pursue her animation dreams at Woodbury University. While in school she interned on high profile shows like Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, DC Nation, and Adventure Time. Currently, [...]

Artists, New Talent, Speakers

Faye Hsu Designer

Faye Hsu Designer

Faye Hsu was born and raised in the small city of Liuzhou in southern China. She has loved animation and cartoons for as long as she can remember, entertaining her friends in primary school with her drawings of fanciful characters and creatures. Though Faye’s undergraduate degree is in math and physics she changed her focus to [...]

Exhibitors, New Talent

James Bourne – Wishing Star Studios

James Bourne – Wishing Star Studios

James Bourne  is a recent graduate of Brigham Young University’s Center for Animation specializing in storyboards and layout. Since graduating he has freelanced for a wide variety of clients including Blue Sky Studios. Born in Rochester, Minnesota and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, James has been drawing for as long as he can remember. [...]

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James Pittman

James Pittman

I am an illustrator who has a passion for painting, sketching, and learning new ways to make my art better. I have had an interest in art my whole life and I have been making art for the past eight years or so. Westwood College is where I studied Game Art & Design and I [...]

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Jorge Verdugo

Jorge Verdugo

Jorge Verdugo is an Chilean animation artist currently located in Vancouver. With over 7 years of experience, he has worked in several animation and TV commercials. He has worked as a Visual Developer in videogames for iOS, Flash,PC. He studied illustration and took sundry courses of traditional animation, color theory, watercolor. currently working in a [...]

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Jose Pimienta – School of Hard Knocks

Jose Pimienta – School of Hard Knocks

Jose Pimienta (joe pi) grew up on the border between Mexicali, Mexico and Calexico, USA. Influenced by films, animation and paintings, he nurtured a love for storytelling and drawing. When it came to make a choice, he put down the bass, left his band and came to the U.S. to go to college in Savannah, [...]

New Talent

Katrina Carras

Katrina Carras

Katrina Carras truly loves storytelling and animation, and she will be graduating with a BFA in Animation this spring from Laguna College of Art & Design (LCAD) in Laguna Beach, California, the same town where she was born and raised. She has interned at local IMAX production studio MacGillivray Freeman Films for the last two [...]

Exhibitors, New Talent

Kevin Williams

Kevin Williams

Kevin Williams is a 2012 graduate from Sheridan College’s BAA animation program. He is currently working as Assistant Creative Director at Tinman Creative Studios. His work leads him through all facets of production, including storyboard, animation and design. His graduate film ‘Dead-Beat Dad’ was a semifinalist in the ADAA awards, and played at the Burlington [...]

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Lilit Atshemyan

Lilit Atshemyan

Lilit Atshemyan is a fourth-year animation student at Woodbury University. At present, her focus is environmental art, layouts & backgrounds. Her most recent project is the animated short, Broken Wing, where she did layout design and art directing. Broken Wing won the Best Film Award at the Short Films, Long Night Festival, and is admitted [...]

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Liz Masters

Liz Masters

Liz Masters is a spirited visual artist specializing in creature design. With over ten years of freelance illustration and design experience, she is highly skilled in both digital and traditional media. Also an adventurous outdoor enthusiast, Liz enjoys plein air painting, cycling, hiking and traveling in her spare time. Originally hailing from the East Coast, [...]

Artists, New Talent

Matt Doering Concept Artist

Matt Doering Concept Artist

Matt Doering is a 25 year old illustrator and animator living in Baltimore, MD. After graduating from the Sequential Art and Animation programs at Savannah College of Art and Design, Matt began working in the social gaming industry as a professional illustrator. He is currently working as a UI Designer and Illustrator at Zynga. He [...]

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Michael Banich – Forking Pictures

Michael Banich – Forking Pictures

In the middle of nowhere a lone house sits perched on a hill. Giant hounds rule the surrounding landscape of lakes, hills and meadows. As strange as this landscape is, the house isn’t much more normal. A single light glows from the upper floor as my mind keeps me up throughout the night. In that [...]

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Mike Pelensky

Mike Pelensky

Engaged by the style and slapstick of classic Disney and Warner Bros. cartoons, Mike Pelensky has wanted to work in animation from childhood. He is in his last semester at Laguna College of Art & Design (LCAD), hammering away at his three-minute, traditionally animated thesis, “A Little Hitch.” He also animated, designed incidental characters, and [...]

New Talent

Morghan Gill

Morghan Gill

Morghan Gill is an animator and artist based in Orange County. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she moved to Southern California to attend the Laguna College of Art and Design where she earned her BFA in Traditional Character Animation in 2011. While in school, she interned at Cartoon Network. Shortly after graduation, she [...]

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Nacho Rodriguez Animator Filmmaker

Nacho Rodriguez Animator Filmmaker

Nacho Rodríguez is a self-taught animator from Spain. He’s been working professionally with Flash since 2002, deveolping a unique cartoony style. He has produced shorts for internet, advertisements and videogames. He spent one year and a half in France, as animation director for Ubisoft’s game ‘Ozen’. He has directed 5 official music videos as a [...]

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Nicole Ales – N.M.A. Original Artwork

Nicole Ales – N.M.A. Original Artwork

Nicole is a graduate from Cal State Northridge’s Film Program in May 2011. It wasn’t until after graduating, she realized art and concept development was her real passion and what she wanted to do with her future career. Nicole is currently working as a freelance illustrator while taking classes at Gnomon School of Visual Effects [...]

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Nooree Kim

Nooree Kim

I am a graduate of Sheridan College and I am currently a character designer at Guru Studio. I do independent works on the side and I have recently finished a short animated film called ‘Pest’ for my final year at Sheridan. I am currently working on a variety of other illustrations and I am working [...]

Artists, New Talent

Rachelle Reyes

Rachelle Reyes

Rachelle Reyes is a Canadian-based character designer and visual development artist. As a new Sheridan Animation graduate, she dreams to one day to open a studio and school in the Philippines, and provide what experiences and learnings she has gained in her career abroad. In the meantime, she very much enjoys the occasional creeping at [...]

Artists, New Talent

Sonia Khan

Sonia Khan

I have recently graduated from the Sheridan Animation program in 2012. My passion is animation and concept/layout design. Having grown up with cartoons on my brain and a sketchbook by my side, my love for animation has increased over the years. Not only has my love for animation grown, my skills have as well, allowing [...]

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Sonia Tiwari – Lumium

Sonia Tiwari – Lumium

Coming soon

Exhibitors, New Talent

Stephanie Kardjian

Stephanie Kardjian

Stephanie Kardjian is a highly passionate, and creative student at Woodbury University studying animation. Her area of focus is visual development with a concentration in character design. Recently, she worked on a group film, Broken Wing, as head character designer and an animator, which, since being completed, has been accepted into festivals and also won [...]

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Stephanie Rattanachane

Stephanie Rattanachane

Years ago, a baby was born. One with a ridiculously long last name and a curious obsession for drawing on things that her parents didn’t quite approve of. Eventually this baby, who hereafter shall be known as ‘Stephanie Rattanachane’, grew up. She first attended the Pinellas County Center for the Arts high school in St. [...]

Artists, Exhibitors, New Talent

Tali Apt

Tali Apt

Tali Apt is a character designer, cartoonist, and storyboard artist living in the Baltimore Metro area. He graduated from Schoolcraft College in Detroit, MI with a degree in animation. Tali currently teaches art classes to children and young adults. He recently completed the art for a weekly comic strip in an international children’s magazine, Binah [...]

Exhibitors, New Talent

Tali Apt

Tali Apt

Tali Apt is a character designer, cartoonist, and storyboard artist living in the Baltimore Metro area. He graduated from Schoolcraft College in Detroit, MI with a degree in animation. Tali currently teaches art classes to children and young adults. He recently completed the art for a weekly comic strip in an international children’s magazine, Binah [...]

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