Our Instructors
Your work is critiqued live, as well as recorded for later re-watching, from top professional animators with years of experience and have worked at many of the top studios around the world. These live reviews are more personal and very important because it simulates the real studio "dailies" environment.
Darryl Purdy
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.
David Gibson
David has been animating professionally for 12 years. Most recently he shipped Evolve as Supervising Animator before joining Blizzard to animate on Overwatch.
Sean Callan
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.
Jamaal Bradley
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.
Sebastian Kalemba
Sebastian Kalemba is currently an Animation Director at CD Projekt RED, working on the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077.
Scott Fritts
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.
Tal Shwarzman
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.
Simon Unger
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).
Richard Arroyo
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.
Jonah Austin
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.
Johnny Spinelli
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.
Ricky Wood
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.
Daniel Gonzales
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".
Stephen Melagrano
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.
Ted Ty
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".
Warren Goff
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.
Maks Zhuravlov
Maks is currently a Senior Animator at Remedy Entertainment, where for over three years he has been doing mainly gameplay animation
Brett Pascal
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.
Manuel Aparicio
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.
Mathieu Dimuro
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.
Richard Lico
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.
Alexis Wanneroy
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.
Marco Foglia
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.
Sebastien Dussault
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...
Frederick Gaudreau
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.
Jason Ryan
Jason was a supervising Animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios and a supervising Animator at DreamWorks Animation Studios.
Conan Low
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.
Jacob Gardner
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.
Jason Shum
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.
David Lam
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.
Jeremy Collins
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.
Brendan Body
After studying the subject in his native Scotland, Brendan has worked around the world, switching between animated features and Visual Effects.
Kevin Rucker
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.
Richard Oud
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.
Brent George
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.
Angie Jones
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.
Chris Goodall
Chris is currently a Principal Animator at Playground Games in Leamington Spa, UK. Prior to this, he worked at Ninja Theory...
David Hubert
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.
Jason Keane
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.
James Bennett
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.
Doug Bennett
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.
Andy Kephalidis
Like every young human that grew up with a super nintendo, Andrew wanted to make videogames. After graduating high school with a solid 60%, he only had one question; how do I make them?
Chris Kirshbaum
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.
Mike Walling
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.
Scott Holmes
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.”
Paul Chung
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.
