Our Instructors

Jacob has been working at Dreamworks Animation for over 5 years on films such as Shrek Forever After (reel), Megamind (reel), Puss in Boots, and Rise of the Guardians.

David has been animating professionally for 12 years. Most recently he shipped Evolve as Supervising Animator before joining Blizzard to animate on Overwatch.

Daniel animated for The Walt Disney animation Studios for over 8 years. He has worked on titles such as "Toy Story 3", "Frozen" and"Wreck it Ralph". He recently concluded his work on Disney's, "Moana".

Kevin is currently a Senior Animator at Blizzard Entertainment in Irvine California. After graduating from the Academy of Art University, he landed his first job at Sony Computer Entertainment to work on a, now cancelled, PlayStation 2 title.

Tal is currently an Animator at Pixar Animation Studios. Previously he had been at DreamWorks Animation for over seven and a half years, and has animated on Kung Fu Panda, Monsters Vs. Aliens, Shrek Forever After, Kung Fu Panda 2, Rise of the Guardians and How to Train Your Dragon 2.

Doug is currently a Supervising Animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios. His film credits include Frozen, Wreck-it-Ralph, Tangled, Bolt, Tarzan and Treasure Planet.

Manuel Aparicio has been in the animation industry for over 19 years. After finishing his roll as an animator on Moana and Zootopia at Disney Feature animation, He got hired on as Head of Animation on a feature project at Huhu Studios in New Zealand.

Jonah graduated in 2001 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with B.F.A. in Fine Arts / Animation. After only animating with a pencil and paper, he spent time at Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood learning Maya.

Scott's has been a supervising and lead animator for 6 years on shows including Falling Skies, Life, Pacific Rim Uprising and currently The Lion King.

After graduating from Montreal's ICARI school in 1999, Frederick started as a modeler/generalist on game animatics. His attention to detail, skills and eagerness quickly brought him to work on big productions.

Jamaal began his animation career at a small commercial studio in Atlanta, GA. (Wild Hare Studios). Working as a 2D animator for a year, he quickly found out that the business of animation was changing rapidly.

After studying the subject in his native Scotland, Brendan has worked around the world, switching between animated features and Visual Effects.

Marco has had a passion for animated films and video games since he was 8. He never thought to get into animation himself until he saw Jurassic Park when he was 14.

Jason is an animator currently directing an independent short film. He recently left Bluesky studios after 5 years, animating on such films as: Epic, Rio 2, The Peanuts Movie, Ice age 5, and Ferdinand.

For over the past 10 years, Stephen has applied the craft of character animation to a variety of projects and has been fortunate to have worked with some of the biggest studios in the animation industry.

David grew up as an active kid, full of energy who often ran into things, sometimes even trees. He quickly channeled this energy into sports and martial arts.

Jason is currently a Senior Animator at RIOT Games and previously finished work Ready At Dawn - The Order: 1886. He has 15 years of experience in the animation industry working on games, films and commercials.

Darryl, also known as RDP on the production floor, has been working in the animation industry for 13+ years. He has most recently joined Warner Bros. Games Montreal as Animation Director on a yet unannounced next gen AAA title.

Chris is an alum of Calarts and the Gnomon School of Animation, Chris has worked in animation for 18 years, and has been a 3D character animator at Dreamworks Animation since 2003.

James is a Senior Animator & Lead Previz artist with over 15 years experience in the animation industry. With a genuine passion for animation, his list of credits includes Godzilla, The Hobbit, Avatar, King Kong, Tin Tin, Happy Feet, How To Train your Dragon 2, Madagascar 3, Iron Man 2 & a host more.

Sebastien Dussault is currently animation team lead at Meduzarts/Digital Dimension in Montreal. Previously, he worked at Ubisoft Quebec as 3D animator and associate director on a number of AAA video games such as For Honor...

Richard is the lead animator at Guerrilla Games where he has been working for the last 10 years. During that period he has worked on Killzone 2, Killzone 3, Killzone: Shadow Fall and recently finished Horizon Zero Dawn and the Frozen Wilds.

Alexis is currently a Supervising Animator at Dreamworks Animation Studios. He graduated top of his class from the prestigious Gobelins school in Paris, then joined Dreamworks in 2006.

Warren has been animating in the games industry for over 8 years and is currently a Senior Animator at Riot Games in Los Angeles. Warren landed his first role as a junior animator at Crytek in Germany where he worked on Crysis2 and Crysis3 as well as Ryse:Son of Rome in its pre-production.

Mike is currently an animator at Dreamworks Feature Animation on Kung Fu Panda, The Kaboom of Doom. Before coming to Dreamworks Mike worked at Blue Sky Studios on the feature films, Robots, Horton Hears a Who and Ice Age 3.

Sebastian Kalemba is currently an Animation Director at CD Projekt RED, working on the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077.

Johnny, a proud Montrealer, has been part of the animation world for 15 years. After graduating from Inter-Dec College in 3D Animation, he began his career on a small feature film called Pinocchio 3000.

Casey has animated professionally since 2008 for film, commercials, music videos, R&D, previz, cinematics, and most recently, in games.

Simon has been animating for games for over 13 years. Most recently finishing a role as Animation Director on Hitman: Absolution for Square Enix, which won and was nominated for several awards including Best Animation (G4TV) and Outstanding Achievement in Animation (DICE 2013).

Angie has created animation for film, music videos, ride films, games, and commercials since 1994. Her film and commercial work include Oscar winning films, two Clios and one VES award.

Richard has worked in the animation industry as an animator for a little more than sixteen years which has made him an honorary member of the VES, Visual Effect Society.

Mathieu grew up in Montreal, and fell in love with the Simpson's Halloween special where Homer goes in the 3D world. It's then that he decided that's what he wanted to do.

Since 1997, Brent’s career has been enriched by many corners of the animation industry. Having spent time in Commercials, Television, Film and more recently Video Games, he has gotten a pretty good taste of what animation has to offer.

Brett is the Technical Animation Director for the Frostbite Engine at EA. His input, support and expertise spans every game shipped on Frostbite such as Dragon Age: Inquisition, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, Battlefield, Star Wars: Battlefront, PVZ Garden Warfare, and more.

Sean has been modeling for 15 years and has practical experience creating both hard surface and organic models for TV/film and real time simulations.

Ted has over 24 years of experience at the feature animation level. He has animated on 20 feature films, and is presently Animation Director at L' Atelier Animation in Montreal where they recently finished their first feature length film "Ballerina".

Ricky is currently Principal Animator at Avalanche Studios NY. He has been animating games since 2003 and has helped ship 4 action packed titles - Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey To The West, DmC: Devil May Cry and Just Cause 3.

Scott has been a professional feature film animator for over 14 years. His credits include “Stuart Little,” “Eight Legged Freaks,” “Open Season,” “Narnia,” “Garfield,” Lord of the Rings, the two towers,” and “Hellboy II.”

Erik has been working as an animator for more than 20 years, the 12 most recent of those as a Senior Animator at ILM in San Francisco.

An 18 year veteran of the animation industry, Conan has worked on a wide range of projects from groundbreaking television—beginning with the pioneering computer generated animated series Reboot—to box office movie hits.

Jason was a supervising Animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios and a supervising Animator at DreamWorks Animation Studios.

Jim has been in the animation industry since 1989 getting his start as an inbetweener on the Little Mermaid at Disney. He has since worked his way up to animator, getting his education on the job at studios such as Baer Animation, Rich Animation, Warner Brothers, Sony Imageworks, Dreamworks Animation, and with Catmandu in Buenos Aires in Argentina.

Chris is currently a Principal Animator at Playground Games in Leamington Spa, UK. Prior to this, he worked at Ninja Theory...

Richard Lico has been animating games professionally since 2000, and is currently animation director at Polyarc, a brand new VR game studio he helped to create.

Jeremy Collins is currently a Senior Animator II at Blizzard Entertainment and, for the last 3+ years, has been animating the various flora and fauna of the World of Warcraft.

Paul has worked for feature film studios like Walt Disney; Warner Brothers and MGM. In 2001 Paul was nominated for an Annie Award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Character Animation" for his work in Shrek.

After a few years of hard work in Montreal in the early 2000s, David traveled the world and went to work on feature productions including Happy Feet and Hellboy: The Golden Army.