Live the Dream! If you're serious about becoming an animator, we want to talk to you about how to go from dream to reality.
If you're serious about becoming an animator,
we want to talk to you about how to go from dream to reality.
MATT STRANGIO
Pixar Animation Studios | Animator
After graduating with a design degree from UCLA, Matt Strangio got interested in animation while working at iXL creating Flash animations for Internet clients. He enrolled at Animation Mentor and was in the first graduating class in 2006. He joined Pixar in 2008.
ADAM STRICK
DreamWorks Animation | Animator
Adam Strick started Animation Mentor in 2005. After graduating, his first job was in his hometown of Kansas City at DXD Studios. He then moved to Avalanche Studios/Disney Interactive, and is currently at DreamWorks Animation animating crowds and cycles for How to Train Your Dragon set to hit theaters March 2010.
TRAVIS TOHILL
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) | Animator
Travis Tohill was raised in Nashville, Tenn., and lived there until graduating from AnimationMentor.com in January 2009. He met with recruiters from ILM at the Animation Mentor job fair the day before graduation. Six days later, he moved from Nashville to San Francisco and was working on Transformers 2 at ILM. He went on to Tippett Studio, where he worked on Twilight 2: New Moon. He is now back at ILM working on Iron Man 2, and next year will start work on Rango (ILM's first fully animated film).