Andrew McDonald - Founder of cgCoach.com
Alwyn Hunt - Founder of cgCoach.com
About: Alwyn has a background in fine arts and has been in the industry for nine years. He has worked at a number of studios around the world including Sony Imageworks (Los Angeles), The Moving Picture Company (London), Double Negative (London), Animal Logic (Sydney), and Starz Animation (Toronto). His main film credits include House of Flying Daggers, Harry Potter, Everyone's Hero, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Watchmen, The Wolfman, Alice in Wonderland and is currently working on John Carter of Mars.
Sam Rowan
About: Sam graduated three years ago from Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art with a first class honours degree in animation. Since then he has worked for studios such as Studio Django and Passion Pictures. He is currently a senior character modeler at The Moving Picture Company in London. His main film credits include 10,000 BC, Fred Claus, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Harry Poter, Wolfman, GI Joe, Clash of the Titans. Sam is currently working The Chronicles of Narnia:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. London, United Kingdom
Drago Avdalovic
About: Drago adds a wealth of knowledge to the rigging front. He has worked in the industry for over ten years in Europe, Canada, and now London. He enjoys scripting, basketball, and fine wine. His main film credits include The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, 10,000 BC, Sweeney Todd, and Fred Claus. Drago is currently working at Dreamworks. San Francisco
Alan Rogers
About: About: Alan is a classically trained animator and has been in the industry for seven years. He has a background in both commercial work and feature film. His past studio experience includes Blue Sky, DNA, Vanguard, and Starz Animation. His main film credits are Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, The Ant Bully, 9 and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
Steve Kahwati
About: Steve Kahwati comes to us with a wealth of knowledge accumulated over his career working in the animation industry. He has taught cg lighting, surfacing, and modeling for 5 years while being the head instructor for a 2 year CG animation course in Canada. He has a wide skill-set that have been honed by working on commercials, tv-series, and feature films at various studios across Canada and the US, such as Starz Animation in Toronto, The Mill NYC, Sony Imageworks (Los Angeles).
Giles Davies
About: Giles has over five years' experience in the industry. He has worked as a lead character modeler for a number of years at the Moving Picture Company in London. His recent credits include Harry Potter, 10,000 BC, Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Watchmen, Wolfman and the classic 1981 film, Clash of the Titans.
Rahul Dabholkar
About: About: Rahul is a senior animator at Sony Imageworks and has worked at some of the world's leading production studios including ILM, Framestore, Rainmaker, and Starz. His film credits include The Tale of Despereaux, Nutty Professor, Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. He is currently a senior animator at Sony Imageworks in Los Angeles working on Alice in Wonderland.
Ben Gunsberger
About: Ben is the Associate Digital Supervisor at Animal Logic Film working on Guardians of Ga’Hoole. His film credits include Matrix, Shrek, and Happy Feet. Ben has a Degree in Computer Science and has been in the industry for over 12 years. During this time Ben has worked as an Animator, Technical Director, Lighting Supervisor and CG Supervisor.
Davide Pasare
About: Davide Pesare is a shader writer currently working at Pixar Animation Studios on Toy Story 3. Davide has extensive experience as a shader writer, software engineer and R&D Engineer. His film credits include Harry Potter & the order of the Phoenix, 10000BC, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Sweeney Todd, Australia and Guardians of Ga'Hoole.
Sandy Sutherland
About: Sandy studied 3D graphics and animation at the Silicon Graphics Center in Sydney, and has been in the visual effects industry for seven years. He has worked at Ambience Entertainment and Animal Logic in Sydney, and is currently employed at Framestore in London. He specializes as an effects technical director and has several feature film credits including The Dark Knight, Australia, The Golden Compass, 28 Weeks Later, Fool's Gold, World Trade Center, Stealth, and House of Flying Daggers. He is currently working on Sherlock Holmes, Prince of Persia and Where The Wild Things Are. He is also a keen photographer and is currently developing a short film.
Adrian Chan
About: Adrian is a senior character modeler at Animal Logic and has worked on major films such as Avatar, TinTin, 10,000 BC, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, and Harry Potter. He has worked in a number of studios including WETA Digital, Rainmaker Entertainment, and The Moving Picture Company.
Aaron Webster
Aaron started his career in games and currently works as head of surfacing at Starz Animation in Toronto. His past experience includes Dan Krech Productions, Calibre Digital Pictures, Medium Inc., Setworks Inc, and Ratloop, Inc. His Blue short film was used as a basis for all the tutorials in the official training guide publication, Learning Maya 7: Foundation. His main film credits include Everyone's Hero and 9. He is currently working on Gnomeo and Juliet.
Punn Wiantrakoon
About: Punn is pretty much a self taught CG guy who's been in the industry for about ten years. He's worked at studios such as Lucasfilm Animation, Disney Feature Animation, Starz Animation, Luma Pictures and is currently at Imagemovers Digital. |
Friday, 30 July 2010
About: Andrew has a background in industrial design and has been in the digital effects industry for eight years. He has worked at a number of studios including Ambience Entertainment, Animal Logic, and The Moving Picture Company. His main film credits include Happy Feet, Harry Potter 5 and 6, 10,000 BC, Fred Claus, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Sweeney Todd, Watchmen, Australia, and Knowing.
