Working Instructors

Experienced Teachers

Learn from instructors working at film and game 3D animation studios!
You may have seen our instructors' work on the big screen or at home on your television.
Who are we?
working with instructors at AnimSchool, students learn from professionals from animation studios like Dreamworks, Sony Pictures, Disney, and Blue Sky Studios.
Our instructors go through a screening process at AnimSchool, just like they did to get their studio job. We want experienced industry professionals teaching our students.
Students can watch the demo reel of every instructor at AnimSchool, so you can be confident that you are being taught by a skilled professional.
Each class has listings taught by particular instructors, at certain days and times each week, so students can pick the one that works best for them.
AnimSchool Instructors
Aldric Lopez
Aldric Lopez
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
Alejandro Potter
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 Kolev
Aleksandar Kolev
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 Somasundaran
Anand Somasundaran
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...
Angelo Sta Catalina
Angelo Sta Catalina
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...
Anthea Kerou
Anthea Kerou
For the last 8 years Anthea has worked on many animated features such as "Shrek 4' at Dreamworks, "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" at Sony, "Horton Hears a Who" at Blue Sky, "Planet 51" at Ilion, and "Bolt" and "Meet the Robinsons" at Walt Disney ...
Ayoub Moulakhnif
Ayoub Moulakhnif
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
Beavan Blocker
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...
Benjamin Cheong
Benjamin Cheong
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
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...
Brandon May
Brandon May
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
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...
Christopher Dias
Christopher Dias
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 Hsing
Christopher Hsing
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
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...
Christopher Wright
Christopher Wright
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
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...
Craig Dowsett
Craig Dowsett
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 Paul
Daniel Paul
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 Dolci
Daniele Dolci
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
Darrell Abney
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...
Dave Gallagher
Dave Gallagher
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...
Enrique Oliva
Enrique Oliva
Eric Huang
Eric Huang
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
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...
Evan Mead
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...
Fatih Dogan
Fatih Dogan
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
Fernando Herrera
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 Shikuma
Garrett Shikuma
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...
Gwilym Morris
Gwilym Morris
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 Pawar
Harish Pawar
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 Hernandez
Hugo Hernandez
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 Cow
Jack Cow
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 Regan
Jackie Regan
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 Spencer
Jackson Spencer
Jamie Chung
Jamie Chung
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 Showers
Jarrod Showers
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...
Jason Behr
Jason Behr
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 Fievet
Jean Dominique Fievet
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...
Jean-Luc Delhougne
Jean-Luc Delhougne
With more than 15 years of experience, Jean-Luc started his career as a 3d generalist on several commercials then decided to specialize in character animation. Since then, he has been lucky enough to animate, lead and supervise talented people from ...
John Paul Rhinemiller
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 ...
Jose Salinas
Jose Salinas
Juan Carlos Navarro Gómez
Juan Carlos Navarro Gómez
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...
Justina Hnatowicz
Justina Hnatowicz
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 Shorey
Kevan Shorey
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
Kim Leow
Kim Leow is a character animator based in BC, Canada. Her career began working in commercials before making the foray into features in 2012. She currently works as an animator for Pixar Animation Studios.
Kirby Atkins
Kirby Atkins
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...
Luis Labrador
Luis Labrador
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 Randall
Luke Randall
 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 Bover
Manuel Bover
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
Marin Petrov
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 Roennigke
Mark Roennigke
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 Juergens
Masha Juergens
Masha has over 25 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 ...
Mat Isler
Mat Isler
Matteo Rovatti
Matteo Rovatti
Michael Ervall
Michael Ervall
Michael Launder
Michael Launder
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 Jao
Mitchell Jao
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
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...
Moroni Taylor
Moroni Taylor
Morten Enevoldsen
Morten Enevoldsen
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...
Neave Lifschits
Neave Lifschits
Neave is currently a 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 include TM...
Nina Tarasova
Nina Tarasova
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
Noah Amrani
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
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”, ...
Paulette Emerson
Paulette Emerson
Phillip Hall
Phillip Hall
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...
Ricardo Jost Resende
Ricardo Jost Resende
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 Saleem
Salman Saleem
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
Samuel Macero
Sam is currently working at DreamWorks Animation as a cycles animator, after graduating he worked at Sony Imageworks on an unannounced feature before going to DreamWorks
Scott Guppy
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...
Scott McWhinnie
Scott McWhinnie
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...
Sean Pando
Sean Pando
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...
Stefano Dubay
Stefano Dubay
Taran Matharu
Taran Matharu
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...
Tim Rudder
Tim Rudder
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 Bonilla
Tony Bonilla
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
Tony Mecca
I've been a professional animator for over 15 years now 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...
Tyler Mahn
Tyler Mahn
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...
Tyler Phillips
Tyler Phillips
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 Lopez
Victoria Lopez
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 Pereira
Yoel Pereira
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
Yung-Lo Chang
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...
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