LIRON TOPAZ

"I fell in love with animation when I was 6 years old. I was amazed by the magic that makes drawings come to life. After many years of traditional Art education, I decided to pursue my dream and studied Animation at the Ringling School of Art and Design. I graduated with honors, and produced my student thesis film ‘This Side Up'. The film won the Ringling's Presidents Award, and was showcased in many festivals around the world... I had the great opportunity to be selected by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science, for an Animation internship at Sony Pictures Imageworks. After graduation I continued in Sony Imageworks as a character Animator on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. I was then offered to join Dreamworks Animation and to work on some of their most exciting projects, such as the ‘Kung Fu Panda', the ‘The Croods' and the ‘How to Train Your Dragon' franchises, where I supervised Master Oogway, Dawn Betterman and the Deathgrippers dragons.