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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
With a passion for visual storytelling and a career spanning26 years, Roger has established themselves as a versatile and accomplished professional in the VFX and previs industry. Specializingin previsualization they have contributed to the success of numerous high-profile projects, from blockbuster...
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...
Originally from Mexico, Franco Corralattended Pasadena City College out of high school and went through its Art and Design Program before being accepted to ArtCenter College of Design. He graduated from ArtCenter in 2009 with a degree in Transportation Design, doing internships at Renault Design Par...
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...
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...
Theresa Latzko (she/her) is a technical art director at Chromosphere, specializing in creating stylized real-time visuals and solving complex technical challenges across animation and interactive projects. She has led real-time workflows and look development for productions such as Yuki 7, Mall Stor...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...