Giovanni Spinelli is a true hollywood professional animator currently working at ILM on the next installment of the Jurassic Park franchise. With countless production under his belt, his experience is has impressive has diverse with AAA video game titles, big budget animated features and visual effects driven film production. Assassins Creed, Rango, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Jurassic World just to name a few. After all those years to learn from the best of the industry, teaching has become a true passion. Johnny has been teaching the new generation of animators all over the world by sharing his wisdom and mentoring them, helping them to bring their animation skills to the next level. Spinelli is Agora VFX certified instructor.
Projects:
Jurassic Park
RANGO
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Assassin’s Creed
Agora certified instructor
Projects:
Tale of Despereaux
Lego the Movie
Transformers 3
Legend of The guardians
Mission to Mars
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Racing stripes
Legend of the Secret Pass
Lost intro
Crash Bandicoot TVC
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. During his travels Brent has worked as Animator, CG Supervisor, Producer, VFX Supervisor, Character Technical Director, Animation Director and a countless number of other roles. Most recently, Brent can be found freelancing at local VFX and Game companies, Directing his latest webseries “Le Chalet” and/or enthusiastically imparting his knowledge onto the students of Dawson College’s 3D Animation and CGI program. Brent is best known for spearheading highly creative projects by assembling custom tailored teams and designing pipelines from the ground up. After which, he applies his unique flavour of collaboration and leadership in order to deliver high quality results on time and on budget. Brent is Agora VFX certified instructor.
Projects:
Batman: Arkham Origins
Le Chalet
Far Cry 3
James Cameron’s: AVATAR The Game 300.
Character Animator at DreamWorks Animation
Jacob has been working at Dreamworks Animation since 2007 on films such as Megamind, Puss in Boots, Rise of the Guardians, Croods, and Home. He is co-founder of the animation website SpeakingOfAnimation.com; where he gets to ramble about things he's learned and interview those that know far more than him.
Jacob found a love for animation at an early age. As early as seven years old, when he could have been found poorly mimicking the genie in Disney's Aladdin, Jacob knew he wanted to create living and loving animated characters. While he did not attend an art school, Jacob scoured the internet for resources and eventually turned himself into an award winning animator at SIGGRAPH's FJORG (The International Iron Animator Event). Shortly after his team won 1st place in 2007, Jacob was hired at Dreamworks. He now resides at the Glendale Campus, playing foosball, eating ice cream, and occasionally animating.
Projects:
HOME
Penguins of Madagascar
The Croods
Rise of the Guardians
Madagascar 3
Puss in Boots
The Button of Doom
Megamind
Shrek Forever After
B.O.B.'s Big Break
Monsters Vs. Aliens
A passionate trainer, motivator and qualified computer engineer whose credo is to create opportunities, Azhar is a creative, self actuated and technically skilled 3D/VFX artist. His enthusiasm for learning compliments his passion for training. With a work experience of more than 8 years in training and productions he provides best training in vfx, 3D and gaming. His credits include various projects like animated music videos, large scale visualization, advertisements, brand identity design, Websites etc. Azhar has worked as Sr. Technical artist inanimation studios where he worked on various international projects and as a Sr. Mentor in top training brands in India where he imparted his knowledge & Experience in curriculum development and quality training. He is mentor for various award winner short films and national design competitions winner teams.Being a hybrid artist Azhar enjoys every aspect of 3D&vfx design, At pixels academy his area of expertise are mentoring VFX, Compositing and Game design.