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I served in the Army. I graduated from ArtCenter (BFA Graphic Design) in 2001. I have been teaching ACX Animation since 2002. I enjoy anime and video games.
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...
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...
Thomas Zenteno graduated from Art Center College of Design with a Bachelor of Science in Entertainment Design and is currently freelancing as a Concept Artist. Thomas has worked for companies such as Disney Channel, Warner Animation Group, The Void VR, and Animal Logic.
My name is Erik Castillo and I have been practicing and pursuing character animation for ten years now. My professional experiene had me working abroad to get my foot in the door in the industry to now working for DreamWorks fulltime, with lots of adventures in between. I am very passionate about an...
A native of Minnesota, Michael Show is a former Walt Disney Feature Animation supervising animator. As a student at California Institute of the Arts he created the award winning Chickins Fer Rent. In his 20+ years career at Disney he worked on such classics as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beas...
Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United States, Alan Wan has built an accomplished career in animation, beginning as a storyboard artist in 1999. Since then, he has worked across major studios, including Warner Bros., Disney, Nickelodeon, and Netflix, taking on roles as both director and producer...
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 ...
Dawn Yamazi is the Assistant Chair, Illustration, Entertainment Arts, ArtCenter College of Design. An advocate for artists, Dawn has supported the development of various aspects of entertainment arts including film and media, themed entertainment, consumer and social expression products and design. ...
Artist/Illustrator. Michael Horowitz has worked in the animation industry for over 25 years. Michael has been involved with character merchandise, including the position of Character Art Manager for The Walt Disney Company for the Asia Pacific region from 1996 to 1999. Currently, Michael is a freela...
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...
Lawrence Hong has been freelancing in the animation industry since 2016, when he graduated from ArtCenter. It was there that he developed a passion for figure drawing, a subject he has been teaching since 2017. In recent years, Lawrence has been freelancing in the video games industry, towards which...
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...
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 ...
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Jason Louie moved to Pasadena to study Transportation Design at ArtCenter. After graduating, his career started as a concept artist at Walt Disney Imagineering, R&D. Since then, his diverse range of experience has grown to include concept art in video game...
Born and raised in Michigan, David VanTuyle is a Los Angeles based story artist working at Walt Disney Feature Animation. VanTuyle has a wide range of work spanning across television and film. His clients include Nickelodeon, Disney, Dreamworks and many more. While at Nickelodeon he was nominated fo...
Gina Lawes is a Los Angeles-based artist with animation and visual effects production experience spanning more than 29 years. The keystone of Ginas artistic approach is visual storytelling through motion, color, lighting, and composition. An artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios, her creative lead...
Upon graduating with honors from Art Center Mark moved to New York and began working with clients such as The New Yorker, Sony Music, Rolling Stone and others. After a five year stint, he moved back to the Los Angeles area to continue his freelance career, working with book publishers, ad agencies a...
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 ...
Matt Brown works as an independent designer in Los Angeles. He works in and around interface design for software and hardware, toys and games, graphics and animation, and music and sound. Most of hiswork is in early-stage invention and prototyping for new products, services, media and environments. ...
Conaway is a live-action costume designer and fashion historian that also specializes in 3D garment construction for gaming and feature animation. She mainly works in historical, conceptual, and post-apocalyptic drama. Conaway is a proud member of IATE Local 892, the Costume Designers Guild. She wr...
Evgeni Tomov is a Production Designer, Concept Artist and Illustrator with more than 20 years of experience in the field of animated features and live-action films. Evgeni lived and worked around the globe before settling in Los Angeles in 2010. He was a Production Designer of the Oscar-nominated 2D...
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...
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...