Aaron Hartline was born in Hammond, Indiana – a small steel mill town outside of Chicago. From early on, he loved movies and drawing. While at Columbia College of Chicago, Aaron realized he could use animation to combine the two things he loved most as a child. During his first semester, life threw him an [...]
AJ brings over 12 years of film and games experience to HALON, with an emphasis on animation, motion capture and cinematics. His career began at Sega of America managing the online experience for the Sega Sreamcast system on triple-A titles like Sonic Adventure and ChuChu Rocket. At Midway games, AJ worked with casting, direction, cinemativs [...]
This is an incredible opportunity to hear about “charm and wonder” from the source. Disney legend Andreas Deja shares his insight in this area. Andreas Deja was born 1957 in Gdańsk, Poland. Deja moved with his family to Dinslaken, Germany in 1958. After graduating from Theodor-Heuss Gymnasium (secondary school), he studied graphic design at the [...]
Ben Willis is currently working as a Character Animator on DreamWorks Animation’s “Me and My Shadow,” a film that combines both 2D and 3D animation and is scheduled for release in 2014. Ben has also animated on DWA’s Academy Award®-nominated “Kung Fu Panda,” “Shrek Forever After,” “Kung Fu Panda 2,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Rise [...]
Ben Willis is currently working as a Character Animator on DreamWorks Animation’s “Me and My Shadow,” a film that combines both 2D and 3D animation and is scheduled for release in 2014. Ben has also animated on DWA’s Academy Award®-nominated “Kung Fu Panda,” “Shrek Forever After,” “Kung Fu Panda 2,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Rise [...]
CTN is extremely proud to be able to include the multi-talented story teller, Brenda Chapman at the event this year. As an American Animation Director and Writer her talent and strength continues to represent and inspire creators in our industry both of today and tomorrow. Please help us welcome this very talented lady to CTN. [...]
Cameron Fielding, Animator at Valve Cameron has been working in the entertainment industry for the past 12 years, helping to create and supervise high quality character animation for video games and Hollywood feature films. His career in animation has taken him from the UK, across Canada, and up the west coast of the United States. [...]
Cedric Hohnstadt is a professional illustrator specializing in character design and toy design. He has worked on hundreds of projects both as an artist and as a project manager supervising other creative talent. Cedric has designed toys for Disney and Hasbro; created advertising comps for Coca-Cola, Target and Best Buy; illustrated packaging for Orville Redenbacher; [...]
Christophe Lautrette is a visual development artist from France currently working at DreamWorks Animation Studios in Los Angeles. He is also the main contributor to the first publication of the Artbook : “Moonshine”. DreamWorks’ first personal art publication, Moonshine, was conceived as an opportunity to highlight the breath of artistic development talent at the studio. Christophe [...]
As one of HALON’s first employees, Clint Reagan has done sequence and shot design for some of Hollywood’s biggest films including Ghost Rider, Transformers (pre Bay), X-Men 3, Disturbia, Spiderwick Chronicles and Indiana Jones 4. With 10+ years of experience, Clint recently supervised previs for Ridley Scott’s current production as well as the adaptation of [...]
Back by popular demand Dave Guertin and Greg Baldwin from Creature Box are launching the first published collection of their work at CTNX this year. Join us for the champagne book signing and meet these tremendous talents. At its core, CreatureBox is for anyone who enjoys bizarre monster design, comics of spacemen, and illustrations of [...]
Inspired by movie-making legend Ray Harryhausen; Dan began making films as a young boy. By his late teens, Dan had produced several 8mm films that featured rudimentary animation and special effects. Dan continued to develop his passion for filmmaking at the Brooks Institute of Photography, majoring in Cinematography, Dan began his professional career in television, shooting and directing [...]
As the founder and CEO, Daniel Gregoire has been the Previs Supervisor for leading directors on some of the most exciting projects in the last ten years beginning with four years at JAK Films with George Lucas for Star Wars Ep II and III and THX 1138. Under the HALON banner, he has lead high [...]
Born in Marrero, La. A suburb of New Orleans, David Breaux always had a knack for drawing. In the early 80s, his parents made the fateful decision that would forever change his life. A brand new Commodore 64 computer for Christmas. He quickly gravitated to the few pieces of art software floating around at the [...]
David Lam, Lead Cinematic Animator at Naughty Dog David grew up as an active kid, full of energy who often ran into things, sometimes even trees. He quickly channelled this energy into sports and martial arts. Little did he know this paved the way for his career in animation where he became obsessed with action [...]
CTN is extremely proud to invite David Pimentel who will be onsite all weekend and sharing what he feels is the purists way to gesture and expression in drawing. A direct disciple of the great gesture instructor from Walt Disneys classic animation days, Walt Stanchfield, David shares his talent and passion with you during a [...]
CTNX 2012 On location, Burbank C CTN knows that there are many steps to becoming a successful creator. Seeing, listening, learning from and interacting with other passionate professionals may be the main key to your success. CTN understands this, and so every year we gather extraordinary people from every corner of our industry. We seek [...]
Ellen Ann Mersereau Entertainment Attorney After attempting to read his contract without help, one of Ms. Mersereau’s clients likened the experience to water running over a rock ——- nothing stuck. Another compared his experience to trying to hold onto a handful of cooked spaghetti. Ellen Ann Mersereau has specialized in entertainment law for 18 years, with a [...]
Please help give a warm welcome upon his first visit to CTN this amazing international traditional and digital animated film Production Designer. Proving that talent crosses over all mediums, Evgeni Tomov’s touch can be seen in some of the most charming traditionally animated 2D feature films as well as stop motion and CG-animated features. EVGENI [...]
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 [...]
CTN is thrilled to welcome back by popular demand the incredible charcter designer from Austria, Florian Satzinger. Florian will be demonstrating live and sharing his talent in our Creator Conversation sessions all weekend. Florian is also the official designer of the CTN Early Bird and “Where are you coming from?” Contest icons. . . . [...]
Francis Glebas is a storyartist, director, and author who has worked for Disney, Dreamworks, Universal, Warner Brothers, Blue Sky and other studios. He’s been in the industry a long time including helping test early computer graphic systems for N.Y.I.T.’s Computer Graphics Lab. Francis directed Donald Duck in Fantasia 2000 and Piglet’s Big Movie. He’s also [...]
Gabe Hordos is concluding his role as Head of Character Animation on DreamWorks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians, which is scheduled for release on November 21, 2012. The film is an epic adventure in which classic childhood heroes are re-imagined and united for the first time ever to battle forces of evil and protect children [...]
CTNX 2012 On location, Burbank CA The Creative Talent Network® is extremely proud to present in an exclusive US appearance the legendary animator, Glen Keane in “An Evening with Glen Keane”. Guests will enjoy a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet the man, hear his passion and see the work . The evening will [...]
Glen McIntosh has been in the film and animation business for a little over fifteen years. After attending the Classical Animation Program at Sheridan College, McIntosh decided to pursue his passion for art and film. He moved from his childhood home in Calgary, Canada, to work for Don Bluth Studios in Dublin, Ireland and Twentieth [...]
GREG COUCH (Production Designer) was born in Bettendorf, Iowa, and spent the first eighteen years of his life there. This explains many things about him (if you’ve met Greg, you know what I’m talking about). He began his illustration career in 1983. Since that time he has worked on fifteen Children’s books including I Know [...]
JACOB GARDNER was on the winning team of the FJORG Iron Animator competition at Siggraph 2007, which got him noticed by DreamWorks Animation. He has been working at the studio ever since on films such as “Shrek Forever After,” “Megamind,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Rise of the Guardians.” Jacob is also an instructor at iAnimate.net, [...]
JACOB GARDNER was on the winning team of the FJORG Iron Animator competition at Siggraph 2007, which got him noticed by DreamWorks Animation. He has been working at the studio ever since on films such as “Shrek Forever After,” “Megamind,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Rise of the Guardians.” Jacob is also an instructor at iAnimate.net, [...]
Jake Wyatt was born in Hammond, Louisiana, raised in the Southeastern United States, and studied animation at Brigham Young University in Utah. He has worked as an illustrator and board artist for a variety of clients in print, television, and film including Nickelodeon, Image Comics, and Overbrook Productions. Metro, Jake’s first animated short film, has [...]
Jamaal Bradley, Animation Supervisor at DreamWorks Jamaal began his animation career at a small commercial studio in Atlanta, GA. (Wild Hare Studios). Over the past 11 years he has worked as a feature film and video game animator, storyboard artist, and director. Some of the projects he has had the pleasure of working on include [...]
CTNX 2012 On location, Burbank CA The Creative Talent Network is proud to announce in an eXclusive US appearance, the magical world and talent of Jean-Baptiste Monge. Jean-Baptiste will be featured in live demonstrations, conversations with creators and spotlight signing sessions where we are proud to release the first ever book published of his work. [...]
Jill Daniels – Born in Fairbanks, Alaska, Jill has been drawing and painting from an early age. She believes her attraction to painting vast ethereal landscapes in her work harkens back to the influence of growing up within the limitless stretches of rugged wilderness that dominate the Alaskan terrain. . . . At age eighteen [...]
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 [...]
Karl Gnass began his career as a story, character, and visual development artist at Sid and Marty Croft, working on such legendary children’s series as H.R. Pufnstuff, Lidsville, The Bugaloos, and Sigmund and the Sea Monster. Karl has storyboarded for Disney, Coca-Cola, Saban, and Fox Entertainment. His credits include Peter Pan and the Pirates, Gargoyles, [...]
KATHY ALTIERI has spent over twenty five years in the animation industry working as a Production Designer, Art Director and Painter. Her credits include “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Over the Hedge” and “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.” When arriving at DreamWorks Animation in 1994, Altieri worked as an Art Director on “The Prince of [...]
Kazu Kibuishi is the founder and editor of the Flight Anthologies, a critically acclaimed comics series, as well as the creator of Daisy Kutter: The Last Train, a winner of the YALSA Best Books for Young Adults Award. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Kazu moved to the U.S. with his mother and brother when he was [...]
MARCELO VIGNALI is a Production Designer and Visual Development artist for Sony Pictures Animation in Culver City, California. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Argentine immigrant parents. In 1976 his family moved to Southern California, where his father started an auto repair shop. Marcelo graduated from West Covina high school in 1983, and that [...]
CTNX 2012 On location, Burbank CA CTN is proud to announce the appearance of visual development artist currently working at Dreamworks Animations, Marcos Mateu Mestre. Marcos will be participating in booksignings, conversations with creators and panel sessions and will be available all weekend to connect with. Spanish born Marcos Mateu Mestre is a visual development concept artist [...]
Michel Gagné was born in Québec, Canada. He studied animation at Sheridan College School of Visual Arts in Ontario, Canada and in 1985, began a highly successful artistic career. Renowned for his unique vision, Michel has lent his talent to several animation companies, such as Don Bluth Studios, Warner Bros., Disney, Pixar, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pablo Lobato was born in Trelew, Patagonia Argentina in April 1970. As a kid, Pablo would rather stay at home and draw rather than play soccer with his friends. When it came time to choose a career, Pablo chose graphic design, although he really didn’t know anything about it. After a short time, he ended [...]
Pamela Tom is an independent producer and director. She’s currently in post production on Tyrus Wong:Brushstrokes in Hollywood, a documentary film about pioneering Chinese American artist and Disney Legend Tyrus Wong. Ms. Tom’s documentary credits include the PBS prime time series Wired Science (Producer) and Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, The Nazis and the West (Post [...]
Paul is originally from Northern Ireland. He got his unlikely career in Art as a stained glass apprentice there. The five year apprenticeship had him draw, design and color many stained glass window in churches and cathedrals all over Ireland. Paul Then travelled the world from 20 to 25 years old, working in glass shops [...]
PILAR ALESSANDRA is the director of the Los Angeles writing program “On the Page, Inc.®.” She’s worked as Senior Story Analyst for DreamWorks and Radar Pictures and covered additional projects at ImageMovers, Saturday Night Live Studios and The Robert Evans Company. She’s trained writers at ABC/Disney, MTV/Nickelodeon, the National Screen Institute, the Los Angeles Film [...]
Richard Arroyo, Head of Games Animation at iAnimate.net Richard, most people call him Ric, is the type of guy that when you meet him, you don’t forget him. Ric is so passionate about his work that it transpires in his attitude. Being very animated himself, he’s the guy that will do pretty much anything to [...]
Rob Thompson started at Pixar Animation Studios in 2005 and has since worked on the Oscar nominated films Ratatouille, Wall-E, the short film Burn-E, Up, Toy Story 3, and just finished animating on Cars 2. He also directed animation on the Toy Story 3 and Cars 2 video games, where he worked closely with game [...]
Ryan Woodward began his career as an animator/designer and storyboard artist in 1995. He has worked for Warner Brothers Feature Animation, Sony Pictures, Cartoon Network, Walt Disney Studios and Marvel Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Dreamworks Pictures on films such as Space Jam, The Iron Giant, Osmosis Jones, Spider-man 2, Spider-man 3, Where the Wild [...]
Samuel Michlap began his animation career as a layout artist on the Walt Disney Classic “The Lion King”. During his five years at Disney, Samuel learned first hand how to create compelling visuals to help tell the story as only Disney could do for generations. During his second film at Disney, ” The Hunchback of [...]
SANG JUN LEE (Lead Character Designer) received his BFA in Illustration at the Academy of Art University in California. After graduating, he continued to explore his imagination by specializing in character, costume, and creature design for live action films, feature Animation, commercial and game studios. Such clients include Industrial Light & Magic, Lucas Film, Blue [...]
Sonia Mak is a Los Angeles based independent curator, writer, and arts administrator. Mak has worked in Los Angeles¹s arts community for more than a decade. Her interest in pioneering Asian American artists and Chinese contemporary art began during her undergraduate studies at San Francisco State University, under the tutelage of Mark Dean Johnson. Mak [...]
STEPHEN ANDERSON (Director) joined Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1995 as a story artist on “Tarzan.” Prior to taking on directing duties for “Winnie the Pooh,” he served as director of 2007’s “Meet the Robinsons.” Anderson’s credits in the WDAS story department include “The Emperor’s New Groove” and “Brother Bear.” He served as story supervisor [...]
CTN is proud to welcome back the amazing words of Steve Hickner. A Director from Dreamworks animation and veteran of our profession this inspirational speaker shares his insights on filmmaking, artist careers and how to succeed in this wonderful profession we all share. Steve will again be providing one of his famous lectures and will [...]
CTNX 2012 On location, Burbank CA CTN is proud to present Sue DiCicco. A successful woman in the creative arts. It is easy to categorized Sue as a multi-talented artist with many voices. Her creative curiosity has taken her to be an animator, writer, studio owner, illustrator and sculptor and has been and continues to [...]
CTNX 2012 On location, Burbank CA Syd Mead has done more than imagine the future, he has helped to craft its shape. In addition to being one of the few top names in the field of concept art for the entertainment industry, Syd Mead is often referred to as a visual futurist, and he is [...]
CTN is proud to be able to include Animator Ted Ty to CTN this year. Ted Ty has a tremendous amount of experience animating in both 2d and 3d. He currently is working at DreamWorks Animation and has worked on films such as Rise of the Guardians, Puss in Boots and Kung Fu Panda. During [...]
Terryl Whitlatch was born in Oakland, California, and started drawing at less than three years of age. Blessed with a mother who was, and still is, a talented artist-illustrator, and a father who taught biology, her fascination with animals started early. Countless weekends were spent visiting zoos, aquariums, and museums, and her father was constantly [...]
TOM CARDONE (Art Director) started his animation career at Walt Disney Feature Animation in Burbank, CA in 1990. Over the next 12 years he worked as a Background Artist and Supervisor, and eventually Co-Art Director on Emperor’s New Groove. He then returned to NY to join Blue Sky Studios on Robots. He has since Art [...]
Tom Peak, scion of the illustrious subject of this searching study, found his inspiration for so vivid and detailed an appreciation of his father in an effort not only to honor Bob Peak’s inimitable brand of artwork, but to preserve its legacy for generations to come. The far-ranging narrative accompanying the present profile of the [...]
Upon graduating from high school, Tony was accepted into the exclusive, Disney sponsored art college, California Institute of the Arts (Cal-Arts) in 1987, where he thrived artistically and developed a lifelong passion for animation. As a result of his time at CalArts, he was “drafted” to the big leagues of Walt Disney Animation Studios. His [...]
CTN is very proud to include Character Designer, Tony Siruno this year. His extensive body of work only shows to reinforce his amazing talent. Tony Siruno has been working as a character designer for DreamWorks Animation since 1995. Prior to that, he spent 2 season’s as a character layout artist for The Simpsons and a [...]
CTN is incredibly proud to include this extremely versatile and gifted character designer from Germany to CTN this year. Torsten will be on the exhibit floor and sharing his talent through both demonstrations and conversations with his international peers. Torsten Schrank was born 1974 in Berlin, Germany. After his studies of Animation at the Film [...]
TYLER PHILLIPS is an animator who studied at Platt College and Animation Mentor. Tyler got his start in Prague working as a 3D generalist. As an animator, Tyler has worked on such films as, “Ice Age 3” (Blue Sky), “God of War 3” (Sony Games), and “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Megamind,” “Puss in Boots,” [...]
TYLER PHILLIPS is an animator who studied at Platt College and Animation Mentor. Tyler got his start in Prague working as a 3D generalist. As an animator, Tyler has worked on such films as, “Ice Age 3” (Blue Sky), “God of War 3” (Sony Games), and “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Megamind,” “Puss in Boots,” [...]
TYLER PHILLIPS is an animator who studied at Platt College and Animation Mentor. Tyler got his start in Prague working as a 3D generalist. As an animator, Tyler has worked on such films as, “Ice Age 3” (Blue Sky), “God of War 3” (Sony Games), and “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Megamind,” “Puss in Boots,” [...]
Tyrus Wong, painter, muralist, lithographer, film production illustrator and kitemaker was born in Guangzhou, China in 1910. At age nine he left China for the United States. Upon his arrival he spent nearly a month at the Angel Island Immigration Station before joining his father in Sacramento. As a young teen he moved to Los [...]
Victor Navone is a traditional artist and computer animator. He has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of California, Irvine and worked for several years in the computer gaming industry as a Conceptual Designer and 3d Artist. In 1998 Navone began studying 3D character animation on his spare time. One of his early [...]
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