After visiting the Disney studio at age 13, Frans Vischer began making short 8mm animated films. With help from Chuck Jones, who saw one of his films, Vischer was accepted into the CalArts Character Animation program. In 1981, he was hired by the Disney studio, starting in a training program led by ...
Randy Hild is a Southern California-based creative with a storied career in the action sports industry that spans more than 30 years. As the Global Creative Director at Quiksilver, Inc., Hild was instrumental in building the Roxy brand to over $700 million globally, making it one of the largest with...
Bora is an award-winning design leader focused on building socially responsible brands and user-centric service products with 10+ years of design experience. One of her passions is to help achieve social equity and shared well-being through design-driven processes. This exploration led her to reach...
Gary Goldsmith is the former chair of the undergraduate Advertising Department at ArtCenter and co-founder of Underhead, a network of global talent in every discipline, including advertising, digital and social media, package design and film. With over three decades of experience as a top creative ...
Tony DeRosa began his career as an animator in 1981. Mr. DeRosa completed his animation education at the world-renowned California Institute of the Arts and was immediately hired by Disney Studios to train under legendary animator Eric Larson. After assisting on numerous projects he completed his f...
Craft. Concept. Culture. Three words that make up the DNA of Joshs focus. After a decade of working on integrated campaigns, he is currently focused on creating compelling authentic work for brands in the digital, social content space. Leading with an open mind, his passions include growing tal...
AFFONSO BEATO, ASC, ABC (Director of Photography) is an esteemed cinematographer with an award-winning international career spanning to more than fifty years and shooting more than 50 feature films, 300 commercials and 50 documentaries.Affonso Beato belongs to the ASC - American Society of Cinematog...
Jennifer is a Los Angeles native of Polish-American heritage and an ArtCenter Graphic Design graduate. Her sensibility and aesthetics have been influenced through lifelong travel, her unique cultural perspective, and from a family deeply immersed in the fields of art and design. At VANS, she oversee...
Julian Scaff is an associate professor of Interaction Design at ArtCenter College of Design. Scaff's areas of expertise include interaction design, design research, HCI and futurecasting. Scaff also runs a one-person design consultancy with a client list that includes Hitachi, Fidelity, Walmart, and...
Tommy Honton is a Los Angeles-based designer who creates immersive experiences blending storytelling, game mechanics, and innovation across escape rooms, theme parks, theater, museums, and video games. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Honton graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a double ma...
Andrew Kutchera's design experience ranges from identity and typography to print publications, user experience, and visual strategy. Kutchera previously served as senior lecturer of design at University of Southern California's Roski School of Art and Design, where he had been a faculty member for n...
Internationally recognized arts and science researcher, design thinker and innovator of applied neuroscience programs and products. Holder of one registered patent. Founder of the Inventio!Brains System, Bodies in Space publications and 3 design education / human potential companies.
Born in Spain, Abraham Meneu's lifelong passion for animation began in 1989 under his brother's guidance. In the '90s, he immersed himself in 3D animation. In 1999, he joined Anibyte in England, honing his skills in game cinematics and PlayStation games. Abraham's feature film journey started with ...
Born in Los Angeles, Richard Mahon studied illustration at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He was an award winning Illustrator from 1977 until 1998 before transitioning to Visual Effects for film and TV. He has worked on approximately 85 movies and TV shows as an Art Director, Matte Painti...
A graduate of UC San Diego, in a mouthful degree, Interdisciplinary Computing & the Arts major, Ivan Gozali has been working in the entertainment industry since 2004 in the field of documentary, scripted and non-scripted live-action, commercial, VFX, and animation industry. For the past 10 years, h...
David Chan is an educator, creative technologist, and design researcher. As a mixture of methodical and exploratory work, Chan's practice involves analyzing, dissecting, and generating connective systems. Chan leverages his background in design technology to engage in opportunities ranging from faci...
Alex Nassour's father was born in Egypt and his mother was born on an Air Force base in Ohio. So, of course they raised him in Los Angeles on a healthy diet of In-N-Out Burger and Egyptian Molokhia. Nassour is an odd combination which is why he loves finding humor where it's not supposed to be. Afte...
Eric Ryan has been Head of Illustration, an Art Director and Senior Concept Artist with over 21 years experience in the film, television and video game industry. He attended the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Molecular and Cell Biology, and subsequently made a career change in 2...
Rita Blaik is a multidisciplinary scientist and artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her life's goal is to find new and innovative ways of communicating science to people through interactive discussions, art and other media. Her research specialization is in nanotechnology and biotechnology for ...
Fernando Olmedo is a concept designer and ArtCenter alum from the Entertainment Design department. He has worked on a variety of projects for Disney including Marvel and Star Wars titles and a varied body of work in video games and theme park design. In addition to larger studio work, Fernando has h...
Matt is a contemporary artist, cartoonist, and teacher whose ongoing graphic narrative Dark Pants follows a mysterious pair of pants through Los Angeles as they impact the lives of whomever wears them. MacFarland has also compiled his 15+ years of teaching experience into a self-published comic, The...
When John Chambers is asked, "What do you do for living?" his quick answer is "I teach technology to artists." When eyebrows go up and more details are needed, Chambers will begin explaining his early days of teaching Apple Computer's McPaint, McWrite and McDraw (1984). Chambers developed the origin...
Guno Park is an artist who was born in Seoul, Korea, grew up in Toronto, Canada and is now living in Brooklyn, New York. Park graduated from Sheridan College with a degree in Classical Animation in 2001. Around 2003, Park started teaching figure drawing at Sheridan and shortly after at Seneca Colleg...