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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  Peter Madida

  Workshops Support
  Peter is a third year software development student and has been scrawling about in Photoshop since Windows 3.1. Peter provides technical support for students and instructors on CGWorkshops.

OUR INSTRUCTORS

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  Spencer Lueders

  Spencer Lueders is currently a Senior FX Technical Director at Sony Imageworks.  Prior to this, Spencer worked as a Senior FX Tec...

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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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  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 8 years. H...

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  Justin Holt

  Currently Justin is the lead texture painter at Image Engine Design Inc. in Vancouver BC working on Neill Blomkamp's highly antic...

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  Francis L Camacho

  Francis L. Camacho is a freelance Matchmove/Tracking td based in LA and has worked  feature films including “Prometheus”, “...

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  Ruth Daly

  Ruth is a 17 year veteran of Feature Animation and VFX with numerous screen credits and a wide range of both traditional and CG ex...

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  Mauro Giacomazzo

  Mauro has over 6 years experience in games, kinematics, vfx and feature movies. His credits include Clash of the Titans,

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  Paul McWilliams

  Paul McWilliams has worked in Visual Effects for 6 years. He originally did a Computer Science degree at University of Kent, Engla...

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  John DeRiggi

  John has worked in the game industry for 7 years as the lead character artist for Schell Games, led by veteran game designer, Jess...

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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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  Raffaele Fragapane

  Raffaele is a Technical Director with 16 years experience who's spent most of his time in service working on characters and pipeli...

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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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  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 Lead Character Artist at Battlecry Studios (Bethesda Softworks) following working for four years at EA Bioware, ...

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  David Luong

  David is currently working for Blizzard Entertainment as a cinematic artist and finisher. Some of David’s credits include Star...

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  Michele Bousquet

  Michele is an award-winning animator, writer, and teacher. She has written more than 20 books on computer graphics including How t...

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  Kyle Kenworthy

  Kyle Kenworthy has been an animator in the industry for 7 years. He currently works at Schell Games in Pittsburgh PA. He has work...

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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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  Kemp Remillard

  Kemp is a Senior Concept Artist with Massive Black in San Francisco. Kemp has worked with such clients as Nintendo, Sega, Sony, EA...

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  Robert Chang

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

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  Young Choi

  Young Choi has been working in the game industry for over nine years. He is currently working as a Senior Character Artist at Son...

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  David Baldwin

  David has most recently helped to create environments for the award winning games Uncharted 2 and 3, as well as The Last Of Us. H...

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  Robby Thomas

  Robby Thomas is currently employed at Digital Domain as a Houdini TD, where he has worked on projects such as Thor, Tron: Legacy, ...

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  Leigh van der Byl

  Leigh has spent the last 12 years working in visual effects studios around the globe, initially in a generalist role but soon afte...

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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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  Tim Mcburnie

  As a freelance artist Tim has done illustration and concept design for video-games and animation with clients such as Blizzard Ent...

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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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  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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  Malcolm Thomas - Gustave

  Malcolm Thomas-Gustave has worked for Blur, Sony Imageworks, Weta Digital and LucasFilm Singapore.

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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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  Ara Kermanikian

  Ara Kermanikian is a concept designer with a focus on futuristic character, creature, vehicle, and set design.

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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