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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Juan Garrido is an Illustrator and Background painter based in Los Angeles. He graduated from Art Center in 2010 and has been working in TV Animation ever since. He is currently background supervisor on the Mickey Shorts Series at Disney Television Animation. With ten years experience in the industr...
A native of Cali, Colombia, Leon Paz's interest in car design was sparked when he first saw a Ferrari 308 GTO at the impressionable age of 8. He graduated from ArtCenter in 2008 with a degree in Transportation Design and has since worked for companies such as Hyundai's Design and Technical Center, K...
Douglas J. Eboch is a professional screenwriter and director who wrote the original screenplay for the movie Sweet Home Alabama starring Reese Witherspoon, which set a box office record for a September opening. Mr. Eboch also wrote the game Nightmare Cove and the children's play Sleepover at the Sta...
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...
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...
Christian Perez-Morin is a graphic designer, art director, and educator. Select clients include: Acura, Victoria's Secret, Girl Skateboards, Royal Trucks, Nike SB, The Quiet Life, Paul Frank, The Colburn School, and Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Over the course of 16 years he's work...
Amy Reid Hirst is an artist and designer living and working in San Francisco. Originally from London, Reid Hirst holds a BA from Goldsmiths College, University of London and an MA in Communication Art and Design from the Royal College of Art in London. Her work covers a wide range of mediums includi...
Sean Donahue is internationally recognized for his social justice driven design research. He is core faculty of ArtCenter College of Design's Graduate Media Design Practices program and principal of RCD/LA, his award-winning California based Design studio. Sean's work focuses on 21st Century Global ...
My name is Shannon Jeffires and I am a film Production Designer and Art Director, currently working in the animated feature film industry. I've focused the bulk of my career in animation for over 25 years, and have worked in various other story based industries my entire ArtCenter afterlife, first ...
Author of children's non-fiction books: Japan and Skydiving, and biographies of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Roald Dahl. Mr. Meeks writes fiction now, and has published two award-winning collections of short stories ( The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea and Months and Seasons) and four novels (The Brightes...
Peter Lam graduated from ArtCenter College of Design in 2003 with a degree in Illustration. Since graduating, Lam has been working in the video game industry and is currently working for Treyarch in Santa Monica as the lead concept artist. Lam's game credits include the Spiderman 3 Movie Game, Call ...
Professor Shrirang Jambhekar is a highly skilled user experience design practitioner and innovator with a passion for creating great user experiences. Jambhekar's UX, service and product design work spans mobile, automotive, home, financial and enterprise spaces. Jambhekar also has experience in ent...
J.C. comes from an engineering and robotics background, with a degree in Electrical Engineering. After eight years in robotics, he began working in multiple areas of the field of visual effects. For the last 14 years, he's been teaching a wide range of software, works with producers, developers, and...
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...
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...
Stephen Phillips, FAIA, PhD is the principal architect at Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) (sparchs.design).He is a Visiting Professor at Art Center College of Design in the Humanities Department, teaching Modernism, Industrial Design, and Gaming/Entertainment Design with a specialization in ar...
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...
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...
Robert Pastrana spent his childhood in the United States, Puerto Rico and Mexico. He's been a freelance illustrator since graduating with distinction from ArtCenter College of Design in 1992. His book, Simplifying Perspective, was published in 2015 by Focal Press. An ArtCenter instructor since 1992,...