Members
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 Duncan o...
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 ...
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...
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 an associate professor of animation and the chair of the School of Cinematic Arts at Effat University in Saudi Arabia. In addition ...
Eliane Gordeeff
Eliane Gordeeff is a Brazilian animator (known as Gordeeff), professor, researcher of animation, and collaborator researcher at CIEBA/FBAUL, Po...
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 abou...
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 childre...
Mary Lou Haynes
* Founder, Producer, Executive Director of HVH International Storyboard and Animation Scholarship Competition.
* Director and Concept Artist of clay a...
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. S...
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...
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 ...
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 “...
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...
Yuri Krasny
Yuri Krasny (Russian: Красный Юрий Евсеевич, born 1946 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) – educationalist, one of the pioneering theorists of media ed...
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 dipl...
Jim Middleton
Independent 2D animator and occasional educator – president of ASIFA Central (2026-2029), after serving as secretary because, well, I can TYPE F...
Deanna Morse
Deanna Morse is an independent film/video animation artist. International permanent collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and animations...
Eleni Mouri
ELENI MOURI
Title: Ba, MSc, PhD
Position: Associate professor of Animation
Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication
Faculty of Applied A...
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...
Aristarchos Papadaniel
Aristarchos Papadaniel studied Tourism Business Administration, Graphic Design (BA Hons) and Animation (MA). Author of the book “Greek Political Caric...
Corrie Parks
Corrie Francis Parks investigates themes of human individuality and significance through the geological lens of sand animation. Using sand collected f...
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 paint...
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 Communication...
Moin Samadi
Born in 1979 in Kermanshah / Iran
Studied graphic design
Self-studying animation and cinema since 1992.
Making short animation film independently sinc...
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 US ...
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 mot...
Maša Udovičić
Maša Udovičić
Born 1969 in Belgrade, graduated civil engineering, completed a course in modelling, since 1994 has worked as a 3D modeler and animator...
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 Director of animation for Interlochen Academy of the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan, USA where she star...
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 Scien...