Arnold Abadie

Arnold Abadie is the director of SAIKI STUDIO and the president of ASIFA Mexico, he participated in different mexico’s animation festivals as judge, m...

Ricardo Arce

Ricardo Arce (Manizales, Colombia-1973), graduated in Graphic Design at the National University of Colombia, the Television Specialization Degree at t...

Petra Balekic

Animated film Director, 2D Animator and Illustrator. Through her career she has built up a strong portfolio of work that clearly showcases her artisti...

Reinhold Bidner

Reinhold Bidner was born in Salzburg. He studied at the University for applied sciences and technologies in Salzburg, (MultiMediaArt), at the Dunc...

Jeanette Bonds

Jeanette Bonds is Co-Founder and Director of GLAS Animation, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent animation. She received her BFA and he...

Evert Brown

I have designed and animated for TV, film, CD ROM and the web. I did studio work in Hollywood on many different characters, primarily "Charlie Brown,...

Barbara CREUTZ

Barbara Creutz was born in Chicago and grew up in Algeria. Graduated from Femis, french national cinema school, she is set designer and independent an...

Nancy Denney-Phelps

Nancy Denney-Phelps is a journalist writing about European animation and festivals as well as a producer of music for animation. Along with her compo...

Christel Degros

Involved in animation workshops and teaching since 1995 Member of the Raoul Servais Foundation Active member and vice president of AWG

Vesna Dovnikovic

Graduated in philosophy and German language at the University of Zagreb. Worked in the organisation of the International Animated Film Festival in Zag...

Mohamed Ghazala

Mohamed Ghazala is assistant professor of animation and the chair of the department of the Visual & Digital Production of Effat University/ Saudi Arab...

Eliane Gordeeff

Eliane Gordeeff is a Brazilian animator (known as Gordeeff), professor, researcher of animation, and collaborator researcher at CIEBA/FBAUL, Portu...

Rafael Antonio González Trujano

Graduated from Graphic Design & Illustration, loved to draw since being a young kid, grew up watching cartoons and reading comics. Worked in about ...

Diek Grobler

Diek Grobler is an artist working with animation. He has directed several short films, and has received international awards for his films for childr...

Mary Lou Haynes

* Founder, Producer, Executive Director of HVH International Storyboard and Animation Scholarship Competition. * Director and Concept Artist of clay ...

Kelly Jensvold

I'm a freelance animator and graphic designer from Beaverton, Oregon. In 2015, I graduated from Chapman University with a BFA in Digital Arts. Since t...

Vaggelis Karadimas

I've studied history and archaeology and I have a PhD in history of modern Greek education. I'm an elected member of the general assembly of asfia hel...

Konstantinos Kakarountas

Konstantinos Kakarountas is currently the founder and owner of DaHouse.He is an animation filmmaker and digital art director. His strong skills are st...

Vassilis C. Karamitsanis

Born in Athens, 1976, he finished high school at the Athens College Lyceum. Holding a degree in Law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)...

Sayoko Kinoshita

Animation Director/Producer. Sayoko has been making independent animation documentary shorts together with her partner Renzo Kinoshita, such as "Made ...

Yuri Krasny

Yuri Krasny (Russian: Красный Юрий Евсеевич, born 1946 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) - educationalist, one of the pioneering theorists of media educatio...

Vassilis Kroustallis

Vassilis Kroustallis is a Film and Animation professional and scholar from Greece, currently based in Estonia. He is Head Editor of Zippy Frames, an i...

Patrick Mallek

Patrick Mallek is the award winning Maître d’Creative at Mighty Fudge Studios in Boulder Colorado, USA and an ASIFA-Colorado board member since 2014. ...

Jason McCullough

Jason is a graduate from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. He studied Animation, Fabrication and Visual Effects in the Entertainment Arts. ...

Giorgos Melissaropoulos

Greek Comics artist, animator. I 've studied illustration and animation at the Westminster University in Harrow, UK. I had my postgraduate diploma in...

Jim Middleton

Pharmacist, educator, and occasionally animator - president of ASIFA Central 1998-2017, now serving as the groups secretary because, well, I can TYPE!...

Deanna Morse

Deanna Morse is an independent film/video animation artist. International permanent collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and animations...

Neisje Morrell

Neisje is a studio and freelance animator based in Portland, OR. She has done contract work for companies such as Cartoon Network, Shadowmachine, Star...

Eleni Mouri

ELENI MOURI Title: Ba, MSc, PhD Position: Associate professor of Animation Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication Faculty of ...

Corrie Parks

Corrie Francis Parks animates sand, paint and other unusual materials. Animating with one hand under the camera and the other on the computer keyboard...

Aristarchos Papadaniel

Aristarchos Papadaniel studied Tourism Business Administration, Graphic Design (BA Hons) and Animation (MA). Author of the book “Greek Political Caric...

Thomas Renoldner

Born 1960 in Linz, Upper Austria 1979-83 studied psychology and educational theory at the universities in Innsbruck and Salzburg 1989-94 studied pai...

Annegret Richter

Annegret Richter is the managing director of AG Animationsfilm, the German Animation Association. She organizes animation events and curates animation...

Yoni Salmon

Freelance and indie animator. Head of animation department at Minshar for art, Tel Aviv, Israel. essayist and lecturer on animation subjects.

Chris Sagovac

Chris Sagovac is an American independent cartoonist working in animation, comics and game art. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Media Communicat...

Moin Samadi

Born in 1979 in Kermanshah / Iran Studied graphic design Self-studying animation and cinema since 1992. Making short animation film independently s...

Harrison Schaeffer

Harry is a freelance animator based in Detroit. He can work remotely, but is also open to being brought into faraway cities to work in-house. He eats ...

Mariela Schöffmann

1983 * in St. Veit/Glan 2004- 2006 Ortweinschule Graz, Masterclass Painting 2008- 2015 Academy of fine Arts Vienna

Veronika Schubert

Veronika Schubert was born in 1981 in Bregenz, graduated from Art University in Linz in Upper Austria and has been working in the field of fine arts a...

Nelson Shin

Born in Korea, Shin started an animated commercials’ company 10 years before venturing on to the United States in 1971. He began his career in the...

Chris Sullivan

Bio and filmography of Chris Sullivan: I was born and raised in the wooded hills of Pittsburgh Pa. along with 10 siblings. A product of my British m...

Maša Udovičić

Born 1969 in Belgrade, graduated civil engineering, completed a course in modelling, since 1994 has worked as a 3D modeler and animator in adverti...

Charles Wilson

By day, Charles Wilson is a mild-mannered forensic animator, but during evenings and weekends, he works on his own animated films as well as various a...

Panos Xenakis

Panos Xenakis graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts. He was a member of Minotaur Digital Arts (MDA) from 2005 to 2010 and founder of 3wheel st...

Briana Yarhouse

Briana Yarhouse is an animator, researcher, and professor in Digital Art and Design and the Visual and Critical Studies MA program at Kendall College ...

Gerald Zahn

Gerald Zahn was born in 1971 in Bruck an der Mur / Austria. He graduated from the University of Vienna with a degree in Pedagogic, Ethnology and Scie...