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Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton has been teaching classes related to the figure for close to ten years, focusing on teaching anatomy and figure drawing in a way that is specifically tailored to students entering the fields of animation, illustration, and game art.

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Mike Hernandez

Mike Hernandez is a Production Designer & Senior Visual Development Artist working at Dreamworks Animation. He has worked on Turbo, Shrek 4, Merry Madagascar, Spooky Stories, Scared Shreckless, Bee Movie, Monsters Vs Aliens, Father of the Pride, Spirit and Sinbad and he' has taught at the Art Center.

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James Paick

James Paick is currently a freelance concept artist working for clients such as Naughty Dog, NCsoft, Trion, Liquid Entertainment, EA, Sucker Punch Studios, and Turbine Studios. 

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Peter Han

Peter Han is currently working at Trion World Network as a senior concept artist.

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Björn Hurri

Björn Hurri is a Lead Artist at Opus, and has worked with clients such as NCsoft, Catalyst Game Labs, and SEGA.

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Jason Scheier

Jason Scheier is a Visual Development Artist and Concept designer currently living in Burbank California.

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Derek Kosol

Derek Kosol has been a concept artist in the industry for over seven years. He has worked in studios such as Disney, Carbine Studios, and Supervillain Studios LLC where is has worked as a concept artist/illustrator and texture artist for films and games and advertisements.

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David Colman

David Colman is a Visual Development Artist and Concept designer currently living in Burbank, California. David Colman is an illustrator who has been working in the animation industry for 10 years as an Emmy winning character designer, development artist, story artist and currently an art director at Hasbro Animation Studios. 

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Ryan Lang

Ryan Lang is currently working at Disney Feature Animation as a Visual Development Artist. He has worked on a few projects including Wreck-it Ralph, and was one of the Lead Designers for "Hero's Duty".

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Eric Ryan

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Nate Wragg

Nate Wragg was born in Davis, CA in 1983.  Wragg has gone on to work as an illustrator and designer on various projects-including Ratatouille, Toy Story 3 and the soon-to-be-released Puss and Boots. He was one of the primary character designers on the Pixar Feature Toy Story 3. 

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Steven MacLeod

Steven MacLeod has been story boarding at Dreamworks Animation for 5 years and has worked on How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and is currently working on The Croods (2013). While attending Calarts, he did an animation internship with James Baxter Animation, and a story internship at Pixar.

Credits: How To Train Your Dragon, The Croods 

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Alex Ruiz

Alex Ruiz is currently a freelance concept artist and illustrator workin in film, television, video game, and the music industries.

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Philip Dimitriadis

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Armand Serrano

Armand Serrano is currently a Visual Development artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios.

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Paul Christopher

Paul Christopher has worked as a freelance concept artist on many blockbusters over the last few years including The Hunger Games, Green Lantern, The Amazing Spiderman, John Carter of Mars, Sucker Punch and Inception to name only a few movies and the video game, Guild Wars. He recently focused on video games production working freelance for Respawn Entertainment and Insomniac Games.

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Patrick Ballesteros

Patrick Ballesteros is as a freelance illustrator/concept artist for the film, game, and animation industries. He also conducts workshops, guest speak, and teaches at the Concept Design Academy in Pasadena, California.

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Erik D. Martin

Erik D. Martin is a visual development artist currently working out of Los Angeles. Erik has previously taught at the Art Institute. His clients include Walt Disney, Technicolor, Big Huge Games, Tofu Girls, Nickelodeon and Kazu Kibuishi’s Amulet.

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Polina Hristova

Polina Hristova is currently a concept artist at Obsidian Entertainment. She graduated Art Center in 2009 with a Bachelors of Science in Entertainment Design. She has had the pleasure to work at studios such as: Naughty Dog, Sony Santa Monica, Lucas Film Animation, and Obdisian Entertainment.

Credits: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Playstation Move Heros, Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated TV series,

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Glenn Harmon

Glenn Harmon is a story artist at Dreamworks Animation. Before that he spent 3 years at Sony Pictures Animation where he worked on Hotel Transylvania.  He currently lives in Burbank with his family.

Credits: Smurfs the Movie, Hotel Transylvania.