ANIMSCHOOL - Key Persons
Aldric is currently an Animation Director at ICON creative studios. He previously worked at Animal Logic Vancouver, Sony Pictures Imageworks and MPC as an animator after graduating from Animschool. He is experienced in a wide range of animation styl...
Alejandro Potter is an experienced artist who specializes in gameplay and character animation. His most notable projects include Destiny 2: Forsaken, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019), Jurassic World: Evolution, and Apex Legends.
Aleksandar is a Bulgarian animator with over 10 years of experience working in different areas of the entertainment industry such as Feature, TV, VFX, Adverts and Games Cinematics. He has animated on award winning projects like Spider-Man: Into the S...
Anand fell in love with animation because it was a medium that combined two of his favourite things drawing and film-making. He has been working as an animator on feature films since 2009 and has worked at studios such and Rhythm and Hues, Industrial...
Job Titles:
- Lead Animator at Jellyfish
Andrea Ferrara I am currently a lead animator at Jellyfish pictures on various projects. I have previously worked at Sony Imageworks where I had the chance to work on movies such as Spiderman - across the spiderverse and The sea beast. Prior to that I was an ani... VIEW DETAILS PAGE >
Angelo is currently an Animation Supervisor at Walt Disney Feature Animation. His feature animation experience spans over a decade, and has worked on films such as Ice Age 4, Book of Life, Scoob, Raya and the Last Dragon, Encanto, and Strange World...
Areeba has worked on many titles from "Birds of Prey" in Visual Effects to animated shows like "Big Nate" and "Rugrats" at Nickelodeon Animation. She has been specializing in both rigging and tool automation for the past 9 years.
Job Titles:
- Animator at Jellyfish Pictures
Ayoub Moulakhnif is an Animator at Jellyfish Pictures, previously Axis Studios, Agora, and Superseed Studios, working on Animated features for Netflix, VFX and Games. Some of his work include Scrooge a christmas carol, Cosmoball, Oddworld Soulstor...
Beavan Blocker is an animator who has worked in a variety of roles and fields in his 13 years in the industry, from an Oscar winning short film to VR, Video games, AR, commercial, television and feature film projects! I'm excited to pass on my knowle...
Job Titles:
- Lead Animator at Jellyfish Pictures
Ben is currently a Lead Animator at Jellyfish Pictures. He has been in the industry for 13 years, working for studios such as Framestore and Rhythm & Hues. He has worked on various different films including Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Paddington 1...
Bill Haller I'm an Animation Director with over 20 years of experience in Animated Features, VFX, Short Films & Commercials. I've worked at Sony Imageworks, ReelFX, Rhythm & Hues, WildBrain, and some others where I've been passionate about bringing characters t... VIEW DETAILS PAGE >
Brandon is a Lighting TD at Sony Pictures and before that Blue Sky Studios.; He has worked on Ice Age 3 Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Rio, Ice Age Continental Drift, Epic, and Rio 2. He previously worked at Disney Interactive as a world builder for the vi...
Brendan Martin Fagan With 17 years of animation expierence, I have worked across the globe at many different Film and game studios. Some of the titles I worked on include Guardians of the Galaxy, Jungle Book, Peter Rabbit, Ready Player One and recently My Little pony, Th... VIEW DETAILS PAGE >
Cameron is a principal animator working on Apex Legends. He is a games industry veteran with 11 years of experience working on many different types of games from mobile to AAA.
Chris has over 15 years of Animation experience and a graduate from Sheridan's 2006-07 Digital Character Animation course, Canada. At Sheridan, He won the DreamworksAnimation SKG Scholarship for best student character animation for his student projec...
Christopher most recently was a Lead Animator at Riot Games. He's had the pleasure of contributing to some titles such as League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and several unannounced titles. Christopher was a student of AnimSchool many years ago and...
Christopher Silva Hi! My name is Chris and I'm currently a Senior Gameplay Animator working at id Software. I have over 15 years of industry experience with 14 of those years focused on animation. I graduated from California State University, Fullerton in 2008 and st... VIEW DETAILS PAGE >
Specializing in character development, Christopher Wright is a 3D modeler with a passion for bringing characters to life. He brings over 20 years of experience with a career that spans video games, film production, and visual development. During this...
Conor Gilmore I am an alumna of AnimSchool and a 3D Character Animator. I have contributed to projects such as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Crash Bandicoot, and Death Stranding. I find inspiration in creative individuals who are eager to learn, and I am excited t... VIEW DETAILS PAGE >
Craig Dowsett is a Modeling/Texture Lead with years of experience in animation, games, and VFX. Projects he has worked on include Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Transformers Earth Spark, Puss in Boots 2, Boss Baby 2, Black Panther, God of Wa...
Daniel has been teaching at AnimSchool for 5 years. With experience in film, games, vfx, and tech, Daniel is an excellent choice to start your animation journey. He can help guide you if you're unsure which path you want to pursue, and give you the t...
Daniele discovered his passion for computer graphics and especially the most technical disciplines while he was still in highschool. After the graduation he started to travel far and wide and decided to enroll at animschool combining the advantag...
Darrell Abney has over 17 years of experience as a professional 3D artist, specializing in character modeling, sculpting, and texturing for the film industry. Darrell has a passion for translating 2D character designs into appealing 3D characters as...
AnimSchool was founded in 2010 by David Gallagher, animator, rigger and former Character Development Supervisor at Blue Sky Studios. With over 18 years of industry experience, David animated on three Ice Age movies, Horton Hears a Who, Robots, and Ri...
Hi, I'm Kike Oliva! I have been animating professionally for over 25 years and mentoring and teaching for more than 10 years. Throughout my career, I've had the privilege of working with both small and large studios across different countries, con...
Eric is a self-taught animator with over 10 years of experience in the industry. In a previous life, he was an engineer at IBM. Since then, his career has taken him to studios such as Reel FX, Blur Studio, Bungie Studios, and Scanline VFX. He is cu...
Eric Luhta I'm currently the Studio Game Animation Director at Blackbird Interactive, previously as lead animator for the upcoming Minecraft Legends. I've been in the industry for 16 years on a variety of film, game, and TV projects and studios, including Pixar... VIEW DETAILS PAGE >
Evan Mead My passion is creating fun and responsive gameplay! As an experienced animator working in game development over the past 17 years, I've had the opportunity to work on a variety of genres including MMO's, RPG's, third person action games, and first pe... VIEW DETAILS PAGE >
Fatih is currently an animation supervisor at Megalis vfx on an undisclosed feature film. He has 13 years of experience working in Feature Animated and VFX Films, Some of the studios and projects he has worked on are Dneg Feature - Under the Broadwa...
Fernando Herrera has over 15 years of experience in animation and teaching for the past 10 years. Fernando contributed to projects for various medias, VFX, Feature, TV, Games, Advertising. Currently works at Industrial Light and Magic as a Senior Ani...
Garrett is an animator with 18 years industry experience working in both feature films and video games. He has been a Senior Animator at Blue Sky Studios for over 12 years working on such films as Spies in Disguise, Ferdinand and the Ice Age franchis...
After winning European Junior Animator Award 2001 for his short film Bmovie, Gwilym was given the opportunity to work at Framestore on such films as Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Two years later he headed to New Zealand to work a...
Harish has over 18 years of experience professionally animating characters for films. Started his career back in 2007, He has worked for Oscar winning studios such as Rhythm and Hues, Double Negative, Method, Image Engine and currently a Senior Anima...
Hugo has been in love with animation since he was a kid and watched old Disney classics. He started his career back in Germany. His work spreads from feature films like Hotel Transylvania 1 and 2, the Lorax, Smurfs to vfx work like Chappie, Harry Pot...
Jack is currently a Senior Character Rigger at Giant Squid. With 15 years of experience working in TV animation and video game productions, he is well-versed on the subject of character rigging and animation in general.
Jackie is a Modeler who currently works as a CG Design/Asset Lead at Disney Television Animation. She has worked in the industry for over a decade as a Modeler and Lead at DreamWorks Television, Warner Bros Animation, and Disney Television. She studi...
Jackson is a Look Development artist based in San Francisco with years of experience in the animation, VFX, and games industries. Primarily focused on shading and grooming for feature film, he most recently worked as a Character Shade & Groom TD at P...
Jamie is currently a co-director for an animated film, 'The Rise of Blus'. He currently runs his own remote animation studio that specializes in film, TV and socials along with another partner. Prior to that, he was a senior animator for almost 10 ye...
Jarrod has been a videogame animator since 1997 with 12 shipped AAA titles including Star Wars: Jedi Academy, X:Men: Origins: Wolverine, Wolfenstein, Doom 4, and WildStar! He is currently at Polyarc Games, working in Virtual Reality development...
Job Titles:
- Senior Animator in the Cinematics Division at Gearbox Software
Jason is a senior animator in the Cinematics Division at Gearbox Software. Prior to this recent position, he was a Lead Animator at Reel Fx Animation Studios and has been animating professionally for 13+ years. Throughout his career, Jason has worked...
Jean-Dominique "JD" Fievet was raised in Lille, northern France, and graduated from Supinfocom school of digital filmmaking in 2000. After a short period of time working in a small animation studio in Luxemburg, he moved to Southern California in 20...
John Paul Rhinemiller Currently, I am an Associate Animation Director at Blizzard contributing to Diablo IV. Previously I was part of Vicarious Visions for 10yrs as the Art Lead on THPS 1+2. I spent the majority of my time as a Cinematics Lead on multiple franchises that ... VIEW DETAILS PAGE >
Job Titles:
- Senior Character and Creature Animator
Jose Salinas is a senior character and creature animator with over a decade of experience in animation, including work on feature films, VFX, short films and video-games. He is known for his work on films like A Haunting in Venice (2023), Strays (202...
Juan Carlos currently holds the role of Lead Animator at Cinesite, where he is also leading the charge on the upcoming Smurfs Musical feature film. Prior to this, he also led the animation team for TMNT Mutant Mayhem. With a strong presence in the fi...
Job Titles:
- Animator for Dreamworks Animation
Justin Weg is currently a Character Animator for Dreamworks Animation working on Puss on Boots 2. He previously worked at Illumination MacGuff on Despicable Me 4 and at Blue Sky Studios for almost 13 years where he worked on the Ice Age and Rio fran...
Justina Hnatowicz is a CG Generalist and Technical Artist currently working with Netflix, where she collaborates with research scientists and engineers to develop advanced CG production pipeline tools. Previously, she worked as a Previs Modeler and A...
Kevan is a two-time Annie-nominated Animator and has worked at Dreamworks Animation since 2003. His credits include the "Madagascar" films, the "How To Train Your Dragon" trilogy and the "Trolls" franchise. He just wrapped on the new 2021 Trolls Holi...
Kim Leow is a character animator based in British Columbia, Canada, with over 15 years of experience. She began her career in commercials in 2007 and transitioned to feature films in 2012, working with notable companies like Pixar, Sony Pictures, and...
Kirby Atkins has written feature film scripts for Robert De Niro, MIRAMAX, and 20th CENTURY FOX. He has worked with some of the most recognizable names in cinema across animation and visual effects such as Sony Animation, Weta Digital, and Steven Spi...
Kyle has worked in the industry since 2005, on films and commercials including Horton Hears a Who and Ice Age 3 at Blue Sky Studios, Big Hero 6 at WDAS, The Angry Birds Movie at Imageworks, and was an animator at Pixar Canada for 3 years on several T...
Job Titles:
- Animator at Superseed Studios
Luis currently holds a position as Craft Leader/Modeling supervisor/Artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios, he also had a successful career at Sony Pictures Imageworks as a Senior Character Modeler in the visual effects department and DreamWorks Ani...
Luke is originally from Australia but now resides in Los Angeles, California where he works as a character animator at Dreamworks Feature Animation. He got his start TV and games before moving into features where he has completed animation on S...
Manuel is originally from Barcelona, Spain. After animating on the award-winning short film Alma, he came to the U.S. seven years ago to pursue his dream of working as an animator at the best studios. He has worked at Rhythm & Hues, Animal Logic,...
Marin Petrov has 20 years of experience working in Feature Animation, VFX and Games, mostly as Technical Director and Pipeline Engineer. He enjoys being in the middle between art and technology. He started his career in different VFX companies in Bul...
Mark has been working in the animation industry for over 18 years beginning his career in games with Maxis on The Sims 2. He's been with DreamWorks Animation since 2005 and has worked on a number of film franchises including Shrek, Madagascar, Boss B...
Masha has over 30 years of experience in animation. She began her career as a 2D animator, soon after the first Maya version was released, she started animating in 3D. Since then Masha worked at several animation studios in Europe and Australia such ...
I have worked for over 15 studios on over 25 3D animation & CGI productions. With 10 years of professional rigging experience and a talent for out-of-the-box thinking and creative problem-solving, I specialize in making the complicated art of riggin...
Michael Ervall With over a decade of experience in character animation for TV series, commercials, and feature film, I've had the honor of contributing to a wide range of projects, including Disney's Elena of Avalor, multiple Funko commercials, and an undisclosed u... VIEW DETAILS PAGE >
Michael grew up across different locations in the USA. Moving from coast to coast, he relied on television, videogames, and films to fill his time. Eventually settling with his family in Denver Colorado, Michael fell in love with CAD during high scho...
Mitchell is a character animator with industry experience in both game cinematic and feature animation. After early experience at Sony Imageworks on "Smurfs: The Lost Village", Mitchell graduated from School of Visual Arts and went right to Blue Sky ...
Morgan Greene Hi! I am a former Pixar, Disney and Dreamworks animator with film credits such as Tangled, Wish, Spiderverse II, Croods and Sea Beast. Currently I'm working on an upcoming movie about David from the bible. I have had the amazing privilege of worki... VIEW DETAILS PAGE >
Morten is a Danish animator with more than 15 years worth of experience. His experience stretches feature animation, tv, vfx, cinematics, AR, VR and plain old commercials. Currently working as a senior animator at Epic Games. Past work includes Bl...
Job Titles:
- Animator at Superseed Studios
Neave is currently a Lead Gameplay Animator at Superseed Studios working on Judas. He has experience in both 2D and 3D on a variety of games, films and tv shows, working at studios such as Animal Logic, Reel FX and Cinesite. Some of his credits inclu...
Nina is a Character Artist with experience in the animation and game industry. She is a former Animschool graduate. Nina landed her first gig right after graduation on a high budget TV show for Disney+ and worked on several main characters for the sh...
Noah Amrani has been teaching visual arts at the collegiate level since 2013. He is an honors alumnus of California State University, Northridge, with a B.A. in Art and a focus in Animation. Noah has been working in the entertainment industry since 2...
Oganes Kharikian Ogi has been working as a Modeler in the animation industry for over 14 years at studios such as Nickelodeon, DreamWorks, Paramount Animation and Warner Bros. Animation. His credits include the CG revamp of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Voltron", ... VIEW DETAILS PAGE >
Job Titles:
- Freelance Senior Animator
Phillip Hall is a freelance Senior Animator with experience spanning nearly 20 years across animated films, VFX, games, and television production. He has worked at Blue Sky Studios, Rhythm and Hues, Dr. D Studios in Sydney, Sony Imageworks, Deck Nine...
Job Titles:
- Animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios
Ricardo is currently an Animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios in Vancouver. Previously, he worked at Sony Imageworks for over 7 years, which part of those years were in lean role, he also got a few gigs at Animal Logic in-between projects at sony...
Salman is a self-taught CG generalist with 15 years of experience in the industry, performing in different roles such as Animator, Light/Shade Artist, Compositor, and Modeler, he is passionate about staying up to date with the CG industry, he graduat...
Samuel Macero Sam is currently working at DreamWorks Animation. After graduating from AnimSchool he worked at Sony Imageworks on the upcoming feature film "In Your Dream" before going to Dreamworks where he has worked on Trolls 3: Band Together, Kung Fu Panda 4 an... VIEW DETAILS PAGE >
Scott Guppy It's hard to imagine but I've been in this industry for 20+ years. The first part of my career was working in TV and commercials before making the jump into feature animation, where I've spent the last 12 years. I spent 4 years at Sony Imageworks whe... VIEW DETAILS PAGE >
Scott is a graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design. He got his start at Moonbot Studios animating on short films, apps, and console games. Following a short stint at Blue Sky Studios on Rio 2 as a project hire, he worked as a 2D and CG animato...
Job Titles:
- Development and Background Lead Artist
Sean Pando is a Visual Development and Background Lead Artist with 13 years in TV animation and Games. He grew up in Austin, Texas and loved painting and drawing from a young age. He received a BFA in Animation from Brigham Young University. He speci...
Taran has worked in the games industry for 8 years since 2002, for studios such as Team17 (UK - Worms, Lemmings), and for Behaviour (Montreal - WET, Indiana Jones, MonkeyQuest) and Trapdoor (Montreal - WARP). Since 2010, he then moved into animation...
Job Titles:
- Lead Animator at Industrial Light & Magic
Tim is a Lead Animator at Industrial Light & Magic and is currently working on an unannounced film. His previous credits include Lead Animator on Ant-Man & The Wasp - Quantumania, Supervising Animator on The Mitchells vs The Machines and animator on...
Tony has been animating professionally for nearly 20 years, and has taught animation courses for over five years. Some of his film credits include; Wish, Strange World, Encanto, Raya and the Last Dragon, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Moana, Zootopia, Bi...
Tony Mecca I've been a professional animator for over 20 years spanning major feature films, games, mixed reality, and most recently - theme park attraction ride and creative development. I have animated on everything from VFX heavy realistic style shows lik... VIEW DETAILS PAGE >
Tyler is a graduate of AnimSchool. He is currently at Walt Disney Animation Studios working on Moana 2. He started his career at Sony Pictures Imageworks on Hotel Transylvaania 4 and has continued his feature experience on projects such as Zootopia...
Job Titles:
- Animator at DreamWorks Animation
Tyler is a Character Animator at DreamWorks Animation originally from San Diego, California. After earning his bachelors in Graphic Design, he got his big break in the industry as a compositor in live action working in Prague in 2005. He then d...
Victoria is a Senior Animator in the video game industry. She has helped develop major AAA titles such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare I & II, Warzone and Madden NFL to name a few. Victoria is currently working at Superseed Studios, for an upcoming v...
Yoel is an environment modeler in the animation. Having over 6 years of experience in the industry, he worked for studios and projects such as Skydance Animation, Netflix, Pokemon, Adobe.
Yung-Lo Chang has been working in animation industry as a modeler for more then 15 years. His credits with Dreamworks Animation include "Boss Baby Family Business", "Trolls: World Tour", "How to Train Your Dragon: Hidden World", "Trolls", "Madagasc...