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 [...]
Gentle Giant Studios: For over 15 years, Gentle Giant Studios has pioneered innovative approaches to the design and creation of sculpture for film, toys & consumer products, collectibles, and large scale sculptures and monuments.
Growing with the digital revolution, Gentle Giant routinely provides 3d modeling and data acquisition services for feature film and television productions, industrial [...]
Academy Award® winning Blue Sky Studios became a wholly owned unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment in 1997 (a subsidiary of News Corporation). The studio was founded ten years earlier with a mission to pioneer creatively superior photo-realistic, high-resolution, computer-generated character animation for the feature film, television and entertainment industries.
Throughout our history, we at Blue Sky [...]
DreamWorks Animation creates high-quality entertainment, including CG animated feature films, television specials and series, live entertainment properties and online virtual worlds, meant for audiences around the world. The Company has world-class creative talent, a strong and experienced management team and advanced filmmaking technology and techniques. DreamWorks Animation has been named one of the “100 Best [...]
Founded in 2005 AnimationMentor.com is the only animation school built by professional animators specifically for people who want to become animators. The program teaches students the skills needed to succeed as a professional animator in the studio environment. By graduation, every student has worked in a production-style environment where mentors, who are working studio animators, [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rhythm & Hues Studios is an Academy Award – winning visual effects studio. It is perhaps best known for its computer generated 3D character animation. Recognized internationally as one of Hollywood’s top visual effects and animation facilities, Rhythm & Hues has more than 100 feature films to its credit. The studio received the Academy Award [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pascal Campion’s bio
Pascal Campion is an artist working in the fields on animation and illustration living in the bay area.
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mission Statement
Woodbury University is committed to providing the highest level of professional and liberal arts education. The integrated nature of our educational environment cultivates successful students with a strong and enduring sense of personal and social responsibility. We prepare innovative learners who are adept at communicating and willing to cross the boundaries of knowledge in [...]
Title:The Story of Up
Sponsored by Pixar
Length 45min
Ronnie del Carmen joined Pixar Animation Studios in the summer of 2000 during the production of Finding Nemo as a story supervisor on the film. He did production design on the Academy Award-nominated short film, One Man Band and story work on Oscar-winning, Ratatouille. Del Carmen was Head of [...]
Title: Untangling the Look of Tangled
Sponsored by Walt Disney Animation
Length 45min
Filmed in November 2010
Description: Join the creators from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ latest animated achievement, “Tangled.” Hear first hand from the Art Director, Visual Development artists and Technical Supervisors about how they went about creating an exciting new three-dimensional approach building upon the celebrated Disney [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Title: The Creative Minds Behind Megamind
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length: 45 min
Moderated by: Frank Gladstone has been working as a professional animator, producer, director, writer and teacher for nearly 35 years. From 1973 to 1989, he managed his own Emmy award-winning studio, Persistence of Vision, producing commercials and educational films, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: Small Studio Successes in a Big Studio Town
Presented by The Creative Talent Network
Length 45min
Join the founders of Titmouse Inc. and listen to how they went from creating t-shirts to a thriving studio with over 100 employees. Titmouse is the animation studio behind shows such as: Metalocalypse, GI Joe: Resolute, Freaknik, and is producing [...]
Title: Sergio Pablos and “Dispicable Me”
Presented by The Creative Talent Network
Length: 45 min
Sergio Pablos is most recently known for his credited role as “Co-Creator” of the most recent smash success film “Despicable Me”. But in the true creator spirit Sergio’s “creative talent” contributions to this field we call animation span a wide range. Originally from [...]
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: 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: 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: 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? [...]
Title: They’ve Got the Look! Art Directors Discuss What it Takes
Length: 45 mins
Filmed in November 2010
They’ve Got the Look!” sponsred by Nucleus Gallery – Top painters and illustrators talk about how their skills translate into being an Art Director on a 2D, 3D or any feature film. Those skills and traits that come together to [...]
Title: Two in One Interview: NY Illustrators – Character Designers
Presented by The Creative Talent Network
Length: 45min
Filmed in November 2010
Moderator Jill Culton Originally from Ventura, California, Jill Culton is a graduate from the California Institute of the Arts where she was one of only five women in the character animation class of 1990. Now, twenty years [...]
The Happy Beginnings
Conduct Happiness was created by animators Joe Moshier and Chris Sonnenburg and their wives, Robyn Moshier and Janelle Sonnenburg with the goal of providing top-level designs with a focus on sincerity, humor and fun. Conduct Happiness got its start at the Los Angeles MART where it gained a faithful following of boutiques that [...]
Walter Gatus is a concept artist currently located in Los Angeles, he has worked as a character designer for shows like Spectacular Spider-Man,Green Lantern: First Flight, Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes and Transformers: Prime. When not creating art, Walter spends his time with his wife, four kids and two dogs.
ZBrushWorkshops is a new online learning portal for digital sculptors looking to MASTER ZBrush. Founded by Ryan Kingslien, the mission of ZBrushWorkshops is to combine traditional artistic teaching with digital workflows and train sculptors for the film and game industry. ZBrushWorkshops offers several digital workshops & live online classes that target specific areas of digital sculpting while [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
With over 17,000 students, Academy of Art University is the nation’s largest private art and design university. Established in 1929, the school offers accredited AA, BA, BFA, MA, M.Arch and MFA programs in 16 different majors, as well as continuing art education with classes in copywriting, fashion merchandising, interior design, web design & new [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sponsored by “Grumpy Pants Productions”
The Drawing Studio with Live Costumed Models is the heart of what we do as artists. It is the heart beat of ever design and every thing you see. The Drawing Studio is open during exhibit hall hours with floor to ceiling windows. Complete with costumed models and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Title: Single Frame Cinematography in the Digital World
Hosted by The Creative Talent Network
Length 45min
Filmed on November 2010
Description: Single Frame Cinematography in the digital world. Jamie will show his work and demonstrate new approaches to capturing stop motion and visual effects using DSLR’s and Dragon Stop Motion Software. This will include a demonstration of shooting stop [...]
Title: The Thinking Behind Colorscripting
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length: 45min
Filmed in November 2010
Description: Join Toy Story 3 Art Director Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi as he shares all the secrets of how he built the color and lighting design of the film Toy Story3.
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Pixar Art Director Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi:
Born and raised in Tokyo, Dice moved to [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sho has been working both in the US and Europe , as a designer and story artist
In advertisement animation her clients include companies such as WildBrain, Nike, & Virgin amongst others.
In print , since her first graphic novel “Sei” was published by Image Comics in 2003,
she has created” ME2″ ,and illustrated [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tony Bancroft, Director/Animator –
As a California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) student, Tony’s talent was recognized very early on. As a result, his college career was cut short upon immediately being “drafted” to the big leagues of Walt Disney Animation Studios. His ability to quickly adapt his skills to any given project led him to [...]
Title: One on One Spotlight on Virtual Collaboration
Presented by The Creative Talent Network
20 min
Moderator TBA
Uri Shinar is the founder and President of Aniboom, the world’s first Virtual Animation Studio, which brings together 8,000 professional animators within an online global community and connects them to the animation industry in all its forms: cinema, television, web, mobile, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Founded in 2007, Newbreed has developed an expertise in character animation and computer generated effects while contributing to feature film and video game projects such as Dimension Film’s Piranha 3D and the award winning Halo franchise. The combined experience of its producers, supervisors and artists have earned them confidence from clients The Weinstein Company, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“Moebius” is in the house at CTNX the weekend of Nov 19-21.
This exclusive US appearance of JEAN GIRAUD “MOEBIUS” is made possible by The Creative Talent Network®.
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (born May 8, 1938) (alias Moebius or Gir) is a legendary author and comic strip artist. In 1963, under the name Gir [...]
Robh 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 [...]
Title:Indy Studio Owners
Sponsored by Animation Magazine
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted Aug 2010
Length 45 min
The production model has changed in the past 10-15 years. The inclusion of downsizing and outsourcing by the large production studios has given fuel to the startups and smaller independent studio owner. Find out about starting up, growing and surviving an independent [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: 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 [...]
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 [...]
Sean Galloway is a self taught artist that is based in Los Angeles. His works include lead character designer on Spectacular Spider-man Animated, lead character designer on Hellboy animated, cover artist for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He recently has worked as a storyboarder for Marvel Comics’ new Avengers series, Hasbro’s new G.I.Joe [...]
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 & [...]
Chris Ayers grew up in Minnesota surrounded by a family and community that encouraged his many creative endeavors and provided ample fuel for his imagination. After studying art in college he packed his small car to the ceiling and headed west to Hollywood to pursue his lifelong dream of working in the movies. He had [...]
OLIVIER TOSSAN grew up in Paris but has been living in Berlin for the last ten years. He comes from the world of scene design and illustration drawing. As a logical step, the world of story telling and entertainment now rises to the topmost level of his creations.
Like the Mary Poppins’ characters, his dream is [...]
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 [...]
Stuart NG carries thousands of rare & out-of-print books as well as notable recently published titles. They strive to offer the best selection of current artists sketchbooks; from aspiring students to well-established professionals.
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 [...]
Marceline Tanguay grew up on the French island of Montreal before getting her training in Toronto. Beginning her professional career she worked as a character design intern on Toy Story 3 at Pixar Animation Studios. She later moved to New York City to join the art department at Blue Sky Studios on their upcoming films, [...]
Laura Dubuck
Living in downtown Seattle Washington, Laura is currently a visual designer at Valve Software. She graduated with a BFA in Animation, yet she quickly found her passion creating worlds and characters that don’t really exist.
During her schooling, she began her games career working on Half-Life 2, and has since designed, modeled and textured environments [...]
Ed Rodriguez has had a 20-year career as an artist developing and designing toys, characters and animated films for Consumer Products and Entertainment companies including The Walt Disney Company, where he spent close to10 years as Creative Director for the Disney Stores. After Disney he went to MGA/Little Tikes developing new brands and producing the [...]
Ed was born in Texas in 1957 and three weeks later was brought home to Southern California, Where he grew up and resides today. As a child, according to his parents, Ed was always drawing. At the age of thirteen they signed him up for some life drawing classes with the political cartoonist for the [...]
Drake Brodahl 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 [...]
Ken Duncan is one of the pre-eminent character animators working today. His astute observations of human nature, combined with his extensive knowledge of art and history, imbue his characters with subtle, believable personalities.
After attending Sheridan College, Ken Duncan got his start on television commercials and feature films in France, England and Spain. Given [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Carol Kieffer Police attended the Art Center College of Design majoring in Illustration with a passion for traditional painting and figure drawing, and an emphasis on fashion and editorial illustration. She graduated from Art Center at the top of her class with distinction. Carol began work on the animated feature Lord of the Rings. She [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Folkwang-Schule in Essen, Germany. A lifelong fan of Disney animated films, Deja was hired by the studio in 1980 after he had corresponded with [...]
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 [...]
ZBrush is a digital sculpting and painting program that has revolutionized the 3D industry with its powerful features and intuitive workflows. Built within an elegant interface, ZBrush offers the world’s most advanced tools for today’s digital artists. With an arsenal of features that have been developed with usability in mind, ZBrush creates a user experience [...]
Muertoons is an exciting new production company that was founded by animation artist, Eric “The Gute” Gonzalez in 2010. Muertoons launched with its first book, Rosita Y Conchita, an illustrated book that tells the touching story of two sisters trying to reach out to each other between the world of the living and the dead [...]
Ruel is currently an animator at Double Fine in San Francisco. Before Double Fine he enjoyed honing his skill set on various projects with Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, Warner Brothers, ReelFX, 3dSite, Blur Studio, and Cinemaware. He also had the pleasure of teaching animation, figure drawing, and character design at the Art Institute of Las Vegas. [...]
Jason Pruett is an artist living in the Los Angeles area. His work includes fine art, freelance illustration, character design, and teaching. He has worked on art for games, short films, books, magazines, animated projects, and more. He also teaches an online digital media class for the Academy of Art University. He has a BFA [...]
Andre Barnwell 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 [...]
Title: The Power of the Thumbnail
Length 45min
Filmed on November 2010
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Art Director Armand Serrano: A 20-year veteran of the animation industry, Armand has worked on both TV and feature film productions. Born in Manila, Philippines, he now resides in Los Angeles working as an art director for Sony Pictures Animation in [...]
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 [...]
It is our pleasure to welcome you to The Art Institute of California — Hollywood community. More than ever, it’s an exciting time to pursue an education in the creative and applied arts.
To prepare for the creative world, you need a brand new vocabulary. Your creative vision can never be truly understood until you can properly [...]
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 [...]
The mission of the Burbank Arts Education Foundation is to generate long-term, broad-based financial support to ensure equal access to high-quality arts education for all students in the Burbank Unified School District.
The BAEF raises money throughout the year, and provides grants twice a year to the District, Principals, Teachers, Arts Coordinators, PTA groups, and others [...]
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 same [...]
ICEF Public Schools is a nonprofit charter school management organization serving communities in the South Los Angeles area. We operate high-quality, tuition-free, public charter elementary, middle and high schools. Our goal is to develop and manage charter schools that prepare minority students to attend and compete academically at the top colleges and universities in the [...]
Women In Animation is a professional, non-profit organization established in 1994 to foster the dignity, concerns and advancement of women who are involved in any and all aspects of the art and industry of animation.
Website:
http://wia.animationblogspot.com/
The Animation Guild is Local 839 of the IATSE. We represent writers, animation and visual effects artists. Our mission is to provide the strength of a collective voice and the seamless cloak of benefits to the writers and artists across the animation industry
Website:
http://www.animationguild.org
The Flip Video is a simple camcorder for digital video created by Pure Digital Technologies[1], a company bought by Cisco Systems in March of 2009.[2] Variants include the Flip Ultra, the Flip UltraHD, the Flip Video Mino, the Flip Video MinoHD, and the Flip Video SlideHD.
Website:
http://www.theflip.com
Cold Hard Flash, a news and entertainment source focusing on TV series, feature films and online shorts being produced with Adobe’s Flash software. Only 5 years ago, there were no more than 5 Flash-animated shows airing on TV. Today, that number is closer to 50. Beyond TV, the web is now full of independent animators [...]
The people who teach animation can vary from an old studio veteran, to a young independent filmmaker, to a computer tech. All are united in their love of teaching and a desire to ensure the skills of the past are passed on to future generations. Despite the large number of people now teaching animation, there [...]
The John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts (DADA) is devoted to providing its students with the tools, theory and support to fully explore their creative potential as animators. The field of animation has evolved to encompass everything from traditional, character-based storytelling, to abstract and experimental work, and utilizes techniques ranging from painting [...]
The Burbank Unified School District provides a comprehensive, balanced educational program for kindergarten through grade 12.The District is governed by a five-member Board of Education and served by a central administrative staff. Eleven K-5 elementary schools, three middle schools, two comprehensive high schools, and a continuation high school serve a diverse and culturally enriched student [...]
Pixar Animation Studios is an Academy Award ®-winning computer animation studio with the technical, creative and production capabilities to create a new generation of animated feature films, merchandise and other related products. Pixar’s objective is to combine proprietary technology and world-class creative talent to develop computer-animated feature films with memorable characters and heartwarming stories that [...]
Love TV? So do we! Nickelodeon has been the #1 children’s network nearly 17 years in a row! Not only do we put kids first, but our employees too! At our studio having a passion for children’s entertainment plus employee perks such as remote control car races, water gun fights, life drawing classes, chocolate tasting, [...]
Imaginism Studios is made up of independent artists specializing in publishing, television, and movie pre-production. We produce some of the most fun and upbeat designs, concepts, and illustrations around! Plus we’re really friendly and will work long hours to meet your needs, so please feel free to contact us and let us know how we [...]
WebiFringe Talent President/Recruiter Debra Blanchard started her career in animation at Warner Brothers TV where she worked on the Emmy award winning Tiny Toon Adventures. Debra then joined Industrial Light & Magic, recruiting production and artistic talent for the most recent Star Wars trilogy. She then went on to head up recruiting for DreamWorks Animation, [...]
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/
Burbank is a city built by People, Pride, and Progress. These three ingredients turned a tiny, rural town into the thriving community it is today.
In the beginning, the land occupied by the present City was part of two large Spanish land grants. The first was the vast Rancho San Rafael, granted to Don Jose Maria [...]
In 1937, the Walt Disney Studios released its first fully animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and pioneered a new form of family entertainment. More than seven decades later, Walt Disney Animation Studios continues to honor its heritage through animated films that combine beautiful artistry, masterful storytelling and ground breaking technology.
With 14 Marriott brands and more than 3,100 hotels and resorts worldwide, there’s a lot to learn about Marriott International. As a leader in the hospitality industry, we enjoy outstanding name recognition, exceptional customer preference, unprecedented international locations and a reputation for operational excellence.
Marriott Lodging
Marriott operates or franchises hotels, resorts, executive accommodations and suites worldwide, translating [...]
The Animation World Network is the largest animation-related publishing group on the Internet, providing readers from over 151 countries with a wide range of interesting, relevant and helpful information pertaining to all aspects of animation. Covering areas as diverse as animator profiles, independent film distribution, commercial studio activities, licensing, CGI and other animation technologies, as [...]
Sherm Cohen is a storyboard artist with 17 years experience on many hit cartoons including The Ren & Stimpy Show, Hey Arnold, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Mighty B, Phineas and Ferb, and Fish Hooks. In 2011, Sherm received an Emmy nomination for his work on Kick Buttowski.
In addition to his storyboard work, Sherm has written and [...]
Each day, Cartoon Brew brings the latest news and trends in animation to over 10,000 different artists, entertainment execs and cartoon aficionados. Animation authorities Jerry Beck and Amid Amidi — both of whom are recognized historians and published authors, with long experience in the animation industry — cover a wide range of topics, including contemporary [...]
Sonic Bunny Productions, a Burbank -based animation production company, was started in 2009, by producer Scout Raskin. Sonic Bunny’s approach is spunky, tenacious, and do-it-yourself.
They just wrapped their first adult-comedy pilot: An Okay Place To Eat, starring your favorite drill sergeant R.Lee Ermey, voice over legend Jim Cummings, 30 Rock funny man [...]
Title: The Broad Appeal of Animation
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted May 2010
Length 45 min
The number of females working in the animation industry has dramatically increased in the past quarter century. What began mostly as a male-dominated profession has evolved into an arena full of women animators, directors, story artists, designers [...]
Craig Harris has been working as a game animator for the past nine years with brief stints with animation masters including James Baxter and John K. He is now out on his own working as an entity called the Nomad Gallery. It is a travelling art gallery featuring his own work of The [...]
Stefan G. Bucher is the man behind the ongoing drawing and storytelling experiment DAILYMONSTER.COM and the “Daily Letter” segments on “The Electric Company” airing on PBS.
He is the author of the books “All Access—The Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic Designers” and “The Graphic Eye — Photographs by Graphic Designers From Around The Globe,” as well [...]
The Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art (LAAFA) was named one of American Artist’s Top 10 Art Schools. In the November 2011 article, Pursuing The Classical Dream: The American Artist Guide to Art Schools, LAAFA is one of the selectschools worldwide that have established reputable practices in delivery of classical art education.
LAAFA’s Programs are designed [...]
The Los Angeles Film School is an accredited college with a campus located in the heart of Hollywood. The private post-secondary college, which has quickly become a leading academic center for aspiring filmmakers, offers degrees in film, computer animation and game production with an exceptional curriculum in state-of-the-art facilities. Its campus comprises of over 250,000 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Mindy Lee is currently working as a video game concept artist in Los Angeles. She has two BFAs: One from Art Center School of Design with emphasis in Illustration and the other from San Diego State with emphasis on Graphic Design.
Her site:
http://mindydoodles.blogspot.com/
Eduardo, 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 [...]
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Animation Magazine offers the most comprehensive, in-depth and global coverage of the people, companies and projects of the animation business. We are read around the world by animation business professionals and enthusiasts and cover the latest news from the ever-changing world of animation and visual effects in features, television, new [...]
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 [...]
DigiCel FlipBook Makes 2D Animation Easier Every Step of the Way!
DigiCel FlipBook lets you draw right on the computer with your mouse or tablet. Or you can draw on paper, like the pros, and shoot your rough drawings under a camera for speed and then scan your cleaned-up drawings for quality. FlipBook will keep track [...]
MAXON Computer, USA is a leader in 3D animation software. Its award-winning products, CINEMA 4D and BodyPaint 3D, are used worldwide to create 3D animation and designs for feature films, television programs and commercials, live theater, music videos, motion graphics show packages, web sites, as well as medical and scientific visualization. Both products are completely [...]
Title: Smoke and Mirrors: Elemental Alchemy
Hosted by The Creative Talent Network
Length 45min
Presenter: Joseph Gilland
Join master special effects animator and author of ‘Elemental Magic’ Joseph Gilland in an in depth look in to creating special effects.
ELEMENTAL MAGIC-
An Organic Approach to Special Effects Animation
Joseph Gilland is an animation director, special effects animator, journalist, author and musician. [...]
Title: An Animation Career Snapshot
Sponsored by Animation Mentor
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted May 2010
Length 45 min
Join Animation Mentor and guests at CTN-X for a conversation about “An Animation Career Snapshot”. Panel Description: Just as the animation industry is constantly evolving, so does your career in animation!
AnimationMentor.com has gathered top animators in all areas of the [...]
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 [...]
Title: What Talent Need to Know
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length 20min
If you want a career in this business join Master Disney Animator and Animation instructor in this rare opportunity to see and hear about “What New Talent Need to Know” and join him for Shop Talk directly after the session.
Master Animator and Instructor David [...]
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 [...]
Founded in February 2010 by a small group of independent artists from India and US, FLB Productions is an online studio that creates Illustrations, Short Films and Public Service Announcements to support social and environmental causes. Our contributors are a mix of students and professionals with versatile artistic backgrounds. ‘Funny Little Bunny’ is a fun [...]
For the past 15 years Video Symphony has been the industry’s leader in post production training and education. Since 1995 post houses, production companies, recording studios, and major studios and networks including Fox, Universal, Sony, MTV, Warner, Disney, NBC, and CBS have sent their employees to Video Symphony for training to stay on the cutting [...]
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, [...]
Toon Boom Animation Inc. is the worldwide leader in animation software solutions. Toon Boom is dedicated to animators and offers the most advanced intuitive tools including first-class customer service. Responding to animators’ explicit needs, Toon Boom Animation product line deliver’s a complete solution to create animation. Toon Boom’s suit of software tools allows you to [...]
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 [...]
Jerry Beck is an animation historian and cartoon producer. His twelve books on the subject include The Animated Movie Guide, Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Visual Guide and The 50 Greatest Cartoons. He is a former studio exec with Nickelodeon and Disney, and is currently a consulting producer to Warner Bros., Universal and Disney for their [...]
Brittney Lee has had a passion for drawing ever since she was old enough to hold a pencil! After graduating from the Film and Animation program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, she journeyed across the country to her new home in San Francisco. Brittney currently works as a freelance animator, designer and visual development [...]
Ken Turner is an award-winning short film director who currently works as a independent designer and freelance illustrator.
He graduated from the BAA Animation program in 2007 at Sheridan College. During which he collaborated on a short film called “Umbrella Boy”, which won 2nd place at the Ottawa Animation Film Festival in 2006. Later that year [...]
John Loter and Shelley Loter are both former Creative Directors from Disney Consumer Products. They work together as Loter, Inc., an independent creative studio with experience in product design & development, book design & illustration, animation, character design, video game development, comics, graphic design, packaging design, and retail/branding development.
Loter, Inc. has contributed to the legacy [...]
Jeremy Bernstein is a story artist and animator who has worked for Dreamworks, Sony, and Nickelodeon animation studios. His animation credits include, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Monsters vs. Aliens, Kung Fu Panda, Shrek 2 and 3, Madagascar, Over the Hedge, and Flushed Away. He is currently a storyboard artist on Nickelodeon’s The Penguins [...]
Nancy Beiman received a BFA in Film and Character Animation with the first graduating class in the California Institute of the Arts’ Character Animation Program and was the recipient of a four-year Disney Fellowship Grant provided by the Disney family. She was hired before her graduation to design, animate, and storyboard television commercials for Jack [...]
Valerio Ventura career of over twenty-five years in the animation industry makes him one of the top development artist in the industry and his work as a multi-award winning live-action director has been receiving praises all over the world with his recent short film “Winter”. The award winning “Winter” DVD will be available at CTN-X. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is recognized internationally as a leading laboratory for the visual, performing, media and literary arts. Housing six schools–Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Theater–CalArts educates professional artists in an intensive learning environment founded on artmaking excellence, creative experimentation, cross-pollination among diverse artistic disciplines, and a broad context of [...]
Silver names three treasures to success in life that give him what it takes to keep on drawing: determination, passion and desire.
Stephen Silver was born in London in 1972. Aspiring to be a professional artist his whole life and knowing drawing would be his vocation, Silver got his professional start in 1992 drawing caricatures in [...]
Frank 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 [...]
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, [...]
MARK McDONNELL is a well-rounded versatile Visual Development Artist working in the Animation and Entertainment industry. Starting his career as a toy designer for Applause, he has held a wide variety of crafts within the commercial art world before setting his sights on the Animation and Entertainment Industry. From Toy Designer, Art Director, Theme Park [...]
Fabian Molina is a Northern California based artist who specializes in and hand-drawn character animation and character design. His work is defined by a great use of gesture and shapes to bring out the personality, emotion, and action of his characters. His drawings tell a visual story that everyone can relate to. Fabian is working [...]
Donnachada Daly is an animator and illustrator. He is also the creator and pioneer of 3D Illustration. His artwork has broken the boundaries of the page and can be viewed in 3D without using 3D glasses.
He has worked as a Directing Animator on Shrek, Shrek 2, Madagascar and Antz. He began as a cel painter [...]
Mitchell Bernal 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, [...]
Title: Screening of Tick Tock Tale
Meet The Makers
Sponsored by Disney Animation
Moderated by: Frank Gladstone has been working as a professional animator, producer, director, writer and teacher for nearly 35 years. From 1973 to 1989, he managed his own Emmy award-winning studio, Persistence of Vision, producing commercials and educational films, and has since held management positions [...]
Beth Sleven has worked at a number of studios as both a tradtional 2D and CG animator. She has animated on such films as “Looney Tunes: Back in Action”, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”, and “Curious George”, as well as a number of other films. Her more recent work [...]
Rik Maki has been creating character designs for every feature animated film from Lion King to most recently Princess and the Frog. He ahs created designs for BlueSky Studios, Laika, Sony and is the owner of Grumpy Pants Productions happily serving the animation community for 32 years.
More work by Rik Maki can be seen at [...]
Chris Kennett, or Crikey as he is sometimes known, is a freelance Flash animator, illustrator and character designer, doing his best to earn a crust from his home in the country town of Bendigo, Australia. Originally hailing from the UK, Chris has worked hard to develop strong working relationships, essential for surviving as a remote [...]
Michael Amos 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WARNER BROS. ANIMATION (WBA) is one of the leading producers of television animation in the entertainment industry, with a talent-rich roster boasting some of the most accomplished writers, producers and artists working today. Home to the iconic animated characters from the DC Comics, Hanna-Barbera, MGM and Looney Tunes libraries, WBA produces the hit action-adventure program [...]
Sony Pictures Animation exemplifies the next generation of CGI storytelling to produce a variety of animated entertainment for audiences around the world. Sony Pictures Animation has a full slate of films including the mouth-watering 3D comedy CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS which opened as the #1 movie in North America on September 18, HOTEL [...]
Gnomon School of Visual Effects is an innovative training facility that stresses the importance of creativity in computer graphics.
We believe, that while technology offers new tools to create your visions, it is our ultimate goal to allow you to interact transparently with the software. At Gnomon, we know that it is not the technology that [...]
BreakPoint Books will be selling a wide variety of animation related books. Be sure to check out books by CTN Animation Expo presenters: Jerry Beck, Bruce Block, Stefan Bucher, Mike Mignola, Lee Silber and Tom Sito. Also, look for books illustrated by CTN Animation Expo presenters: Peter De Seve and Dave Zaboski. BreakPoint will also [...]
Glenn Vilppu is considered one of today’s foremost draftsman and instructors in drawing and painting. Few contemporary artists have thoroughly absorbed the lessons of the great masters of the past and in addition, none have Glenn’s ability to communicate and inspire students with such knowledge and understanding.
Glenn Vilppu is trained in the classical art of [...]
Steph Laberis is a character designer and illustrator residing in Berkeley, CA. Her background is in games but she has been pursuing her dream of working in feature animation during her free time. Her clients have included Hasbro, Sony, Microsoft, PBS Kids and various iOS startups in the Bay Area. When not drawing or playing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Join Ryan in this passionate and inspiration session where he discusses his creative process. Animating from the heart and Logic vs Inspiration.
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 and Dreamworks Pictures [...]
WACOM tablets have become an industry standard. Join me in welcoming Wacom to CTN-X 2009 where top talent artists will be demonstrating their skills on the latest products and enter to win an Intuos 4 tablet free.
WACOM believes that technology should be easy to use and simple to understand. With products that rely on human [...]
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 [...]
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: Pilar Alessandra Crafting the Pitch
Sponsored by Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted May 2010
Length 40 mins
PILAR ALESSANDRA
Writing Instructor/Script Consultant: On the Page
www.onthepage.tv
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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