Steve Wright

Steve Wright is a 20-year visual effects veteran with 70 broadcast television commercials and over 60 feature film credits. Steve first started working in 3D animation at Robert Abel and Associates in Hollywood. He and his partner had a visual effects studio in Hollywood for seven years producing 3D animation and high-end visual effects compositing using the Pixar computer, first for commercials then for feature films.

Allan McKay

Allan McKay is a Director & Visual Effects Specialist. Working primarily on Hollywood films, some of his more recent effects sequences work have been for Superman Returns, Blade Trinity, Exorcist: The Beginning, Paycheck, Scooby Doo 2, Inspector Gadget and dozens of other feature films. Allan has also consulted as a specialist on projects such as Hellboy, Day After Tomorrow, Destroy All Humans 2 and Def Jam 3.

Cesar Dacol Jr

Cesar Luis Dacol’s has worked in the film industry for nearly 20 years, having started his career in the makeup effects industry and transitioning to computers effects in the mid 90's.With a background in anatomy and traditional sculpting, he quickly adapted to the 3D world of computers. For the past 5 years Cesar has worked primarily as Lead and Modeling Supervisor, contributing to many feature films such as 300, Barnyard and Fantastic Four.

Pat Gombarcik

Pat Gombarcik is a Discreet Certified Instructor for 3ds Max. She is proficient in the use of 3ds Max 9 and specializes in Basic Fundamentals to Intermediate Level.

As the Deptartment Coordinator and Vocational Instructor for the Communications Academy Pat was responsible for developing new courses within the animation department, budgeting, writing curriculum, maintaining industry contacts, coordinating articulation agreements for animation classes, and teaching Introductory and Senior level 3D animation courses.

Todd Widup

After spending several years working on some large scale video game projects, Todd Widup has moved into film in a big way working at Weta Digital on Lord of the Rings, Return of the King ILM on Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith Todd is also mentioned in the book "Making of Star Wars : Revenge of the Sith"

Michele Bousquet
Michele Bousquet is a world-traveling author and teacher who specializes in 3D Studio. She co-authored the first books to appear for 3DS DOS and has gone on to cover 3DS Max. Her work includes training videos, contributions to magazines and books, and instruction for classes and personal tutoring. More information >>

Don Seegmiller

Don Seegmiller has been painting professionally for over 21 years and has travelled extensively, demonstrating Metacreations Painter 6 for the many of the major trade shows. His work is featured in the Painter 6, 7, 8, and IX Wow Books, Step by Step Electronic Design, Design Graphics, and both Spectrum 7 and 8. e of Painter IX, featured both on the Corel web site and in the Painter IX manual.

Paul Hormis

Paul Hormis has worked in the 3D industry for nearly twenty years. Paul worked as Lead Character Rigger & Cloth Specialist, MaxScript Programmer and 3D Artist / Animator at Blur Studio. Some of his Blur Credits: Rockfish, Aunt Louisa, Mickeys Twice Upon a Christmas, Punisher, Bloodrayne, Spiderman and James Camerons Aliens of the Deep IMAX. Currently he is the CEO/Owner of Hyperbolic Enterprises Inc.

Cris Palomino

Cris Palomino has been using Painter professionally since its Fractal Designer beginnings. She was instrumental in pioneering the use of digital art while working as an artist at Disney Consumer Products and began teaching their traditional artists how to traverse the daunting gap from the pencil to the digital pen in classes designed to reach the artist and not just teach another computer class.

Borislav Petrov

Borislav ‘Bobo' Petrov is a visual effects Technical Director at Frantic Films, in Winnipeg, Canada. He has worked on movies such as Superman Returns, Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow, Stay, Cursed, and Scooby Doo 2. He is also involved in the development of commercial software including Deadline, and Krakatoa.

Roger Cusson

Roger Cusson is a graduate of the McGill School of Architecture and has worked extensively in the CAD and Architectural Visualization Industry. Roger works primarily in the Architecture Industry and is a specialist in training and implementation of CAD and 3D visualization. Roger is also a specialist in 3ds Max, Revit and ArchiCAD.

David Luong

In 2005, David earned his BFA from the Academy of Art in San Francisco, California, specializing in matte painting and compositing. Shortly after David began at Disney Toon Studios as a background painter, and from this went onto to work at Luma Pictures on Underworld: Evolution as a digital paint artist. David also worked for Rhythm & Hues Studios where he finished shots for Garfield 2, Superman Returns, and Night at the Museum.

Brian Pohl

Brian J. Pohl is co-owner and pre-visualization supervisor of Persistence of Vision Digital Entertainment (P.O.V.). He has served as the previsualization lead/supervisor on I,Robot and Stealth at Digital Domain. Brian is trained and experienced in a number of 3D animation and compositing packages and during his spare time, occasionally teaches classes on Maya and previsualization at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Los Angeles.

Barton Gawboy

For over twenty years, Barton has blended management skills with experience in production and engineering. He has worked at Mattel Electronics, Symbolics, Information International Inc, Nichimen Graphics, Dreamworks Feature Animation, as a partner of Anohana Production Management & Technologies, and as owner of Marina Motion, LLC.

Rebecca Kimmel
Rebecca Kimmel studied Illustration at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California under master instructors Burne Hogarth, Harry Carmean, and Richard Bunkall among others. She has produced graphic content for CD-ROM delivery with clients including the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Energy, FEMA, the FBI, the EPA, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. More information >>

Leigh van der Byl

Leigh van der Byl must never sleep. She has achieved so much in the first five years of her career it is impossible to contemplate where she will end up. Leigh is recognized throughout the CG Community as an accomplished artist of texturing and rendering. Currently working at CafeFX in California as a 3D Artist, her credits include "The Aviator" and "Sin City", as well as a few upcoming features.

Steven Stahlberg
Steven Stahlberg is a co-founder of Optidigit, now partnered with VisualXtreme to form Androidblues, The Virtual Talent Studio. Steven is the head of 3D animation and art director of Androidblues in addition to being an artist, illustrator and animator. More information >>

Paul Fedor

For the last 4 years, Paul Fedor has been working with the research and development team for Sony PlayStation. He teamed up with Academy Award Post Supervisor Nick Brooks, and Mathew Lamb PHD as a consulting team for PlayStation cinematics and pipelines. His focus was pushing the standards for next generation characters for the launch of PlayStation 3 with his work and research centered on perfecting a photo-real digital. His work and research involves perfecting the photo-real digital character and by doing so changing the way video games are made. Together with Hong Suc Suh (Ex-ILM), Paul helped develop and integrate a next-generation ZBrush pipeline for Sony that produces characters for 1/3 the price as PlayStation 2 characters with 100 times the quality. He was the beta tester for many proprietary tools for Sony PlayStation's gaming standards.

Martijn van Herk

Martijn has been using 3dsmax professionally for over 10 years, focusing primarily on special effects, particles and MAXScript. MAXScript has been Martijn’s primary tool since its introduction in 3dsmax release 2. During that time he has used it extensively in writing various in-house scripts and in the development of a range of free tools that are used by 3dsmax users all over the world.

Robin Cooper

Robin Cooper joined Pixar Animation Studios in February 1995 as a digital painter on the studio’s first feature film, Toy Story. She painted on the studio’s subsequent feature films, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, and Monsters, Inc. Robin moved into Art Direction and Texture Design for Finding Nemo.

Jeremy Birn

Jeremy Birn is a lighting technical director at Pixar Animation Studios, where he has worked on animation features since 2002. Some of his credits include Ratatouille, cars, The Incredibles and Evolution.

Philip Straub
Philip's meticulously detailed digital and traditional oil paintings are purely based on the fantastic. He has illustrated over 30 children's books, created concept art, paintings, and 3D content for numerous CD Rom and console games, and published multiple digital art tutorial books. More information >>