KEY CGWORKSHOP STAFF

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  Kirsty Parkin

  Workshops Manager
  Kirsty Parkin has spent most of her career managing freelance artists, designers and writers. She has a post-graduate degree in education, and a passion for gaming.

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  Rhys 'Keenly' Jenkin

  Workshops Webmaster
  A keen cyber-junkie, Rhys 'Keenly' Jenkin has been developing the internet for as long as he can remember. Keenly provides technical support for students and instructors on CG Workshops.

OUR INSTRUCTORS

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  Anne Pogoda

  Anne Pogoda is a lecturer at a local art academy specialising in digital illustration and character design. She also works in the ...

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  Chris Soyer

  Christopher Soyer is an FX td and fluids specialist with 8 years experience in VFX. He is an accredited Realflow trainer.

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  Boaz Livny

  Boaz Livny is a CG and VFX artist, Technical Director and author of mental ray for Maya, 3ds max, and XSI: A 3D Artist’s Guide t...

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  Steve Wright

  Steve is a 20 year visual effects compositing veteran with  film credits in over 70 feature films such as Shutter Island, Night...

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  Nick Deboar

  Nick Deboar has been working in the animation and VFX industry for almost 10 years, specializing in Lighting and Surfacing. After ...

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  Noah Vice

  Noah Vice is an award winning digital artist and technical director who currently serves as Computer Graphics Supervisor for Evil ...

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  Coro Kaufman

  Justin “Coro” Kaufman is Co-Founder and Art Director of Massive Black, Inc., a premier concept art and production studio based...

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  Simon Scales

  Simon Scales is a freelance video game concept artist and matte painter based in Australia. He is also the owner/instructor at the...

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  David Alexander

  David is a VES Award-nominated visual effects artist and supervisor with credits spanning television, commercials, music videos a...

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  Becca Baldwin

  Becca works at Blizzard Entertainment's Cinematics department as a Cloth/Hair TD. She has been able to work on hair and cloth sim...

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  Young Choi

  Young Choi has been working in the game industry for over 9yrs. He is currently working as a Senior Character Artist at Sony Sant...

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  Spencer Lueders

  Spencer Lueders is currently a Senior FX Technical Director at Rhythm and Hues Studios in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Rhythm and...

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  Katon Callaway

  Working in the video game industry since 2004, Katon has worked on many games such as 50 Cent: Bullet Proof, True Crime Streets o...

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  Paul McWilliams

  Paul McWilliams has worked in Visual Effects for 5 and half years. He originally did a Computer Science degree at University of K...

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  Sze Jones

  Sze Jones began her art training at a young age in Hong Kong, at the age five she was enrolled in the Elsa Art House and studied ...

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  David Luong

  David is currently working for Blizzard Entertainment as a cinematic artist and finisher. This includes look development, paintin...

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  Sunil Pant

  Sunil is a Designer and a 3D sketch artist and has been working in the motion picture and video game industry for over 4 years. He...

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  Bryan Wynia

  Bryan is currently working as a Senior Character Artist at Sony Santa Monica. Previously he worked at Naughty Dog where he contri...

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  Jonathan Rush

  Jon is currently an employee of EA Bioware, where he is hard at work on his tenth major project, the highly anticipated MMORPG, St...

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  Shaun Friedberg

  Shaun Friedberg (Pyrokinesis) is Technical Director at Weta Digital in Wellington New Zealand where he started by working on James...

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  Judd Simantov

  Judd Simantov has worked in the Computer Graphics industry for over 10 years. He currently works as an independent contractor in S...

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  Karl Stiefvater

  Karl Stiefvater is a visual effects artist with over 20 years experience in the field of computer graphics.  He has worked on gam...

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  Raffaele Fragapane

  Raffaele is a Technical Director with 13 years experience who's spent most of his time in service working on characters and pipeli...

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  Anthony Romrell

  Anthony Romrell currently works as an Assistant Professor of Animation at Utah Valley University. He has been pivotal in revampin...

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  Robert Chang

  Robert "Lunatique" Chang is an artist, writer / director, composer / songwriter, and photographer whose work has been featured Pa...

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  Justin Holt

  Currently Justin is the lead texture painter at Image Engine Design Inc. in Vancouver BC working on a high profile unannounced fea...

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  Steven Stahlberg

  Steven's Game credits include: Army Men, Conquest, Freelancer, Need for Speed, Eragon, Def Jam, Sims 3, Heavy Rain, Tabula Rasa, R...

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  Don Seegmiller

  Don Seegmiller has been painting professionally for over 25 years with his work featured in the Painter 6, 7, 8, and IX Wow Books...

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