Liron Topaz
Supervising Animator / Director
DreamWorks Animation
Liron Topaz is an award-winning Director, Supervising Animator and the Animation Department Chair at DreamWorks Animation. His 2018 animated short, Bilby, won the Jury Award at SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. Liron’s passion for animation started at an early age, and he graduated with honors from Ringling School of Art + Design in 2009. He has worked on various franchise projects, including Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Croods. He was recently a Supervising Animator for DreamWorks’ film, The Bad Guys, which came out in 2022.Â
Liron’s Credits
Bilby
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Kung Fu Panda 3
The Bad Guys
Recent Films
- Kung Fu Panda 4
- The Bad Guys
- The Croods: A New Age
- Abominable
- How to Train Your Dragon: Hidden World
- Boss Baby
- Trolls
- Kung Fu Panda 3
- How to Train your Dragon 2
- The Croods
- Kung Fu Panda 2
- Alice in Wonderland
Short Films
- To Gerard
- Bilby – Director and Writer
- This Side Up – Director
Television
- Sonic Mania Adventures
What Liron’s Students are Saying
Awesome Mentor
Awesome mentor! Really takes the time out of his day to make sure you understand everything. Critiques are extremely helpful as well as lectures/demos during class. And I really appreciated that he was available to help me outside of the scheduled class time as well. I feel so much more confident in animating creatures. Thank you!
Q&As are Awesome and Informative
Liron’s QAs are awesome, informative and interesting. His is very open and willing to answer all our questions and shares his knowledge and gives great workflow tips. His notes on assignment are very detailed and easy to understand and how to address them. Overall I’m very happy with my mentor. Thank you.
Has Technical Knowledge
Liron has given us a lot of technical knowledge that helps those times when you feel like you are fighting with Maya. This saves a lot of time and helps you stay focused on the already difficult task at hand, animation. Liron is also great at giving you ideas on ways you can plus your animation, especially when it comes to creature/animal behaviors.
Demos with Maya
I really like that he does a lot of demos with Maya for Q and A sessions. It’s always helpful to see how mentors animate. Also, he explains a lot of technical tips that make our animation process so much easier.
Awesome Mentor
Awesome mentor! Really takes the time out of his day to make sure you understand everything. Critiques are extremely helpful as well as lectures/demos during class. And I really appreciated that he was available to help me outside of the scheduled class time as well. I feel so much more confident in animating creatures. Thank you!
Q&As are Awesome and Informative
Liron’s QAs are awesome, informative and interesting. His is very open and willing to answer all our questions and shares his knowledge and gives great workflow tips. His notes on assignment are very detailed and easy to understand and how to address them. Overall I’m very happy with my mentor. Thank you.
Has Technical Knowledge
Liron has given us a lot of technical knowledge that helps those times when you feel like you are fighting with Maya. This saves a lot of time and helps you stay focused on the already difficult task at hand, animation. Liron is also great at giving you ideas on ways you can plus your animation, especially when it comes to creature/animal behaviors.
Demos with Maya
I really like that he does a lot of demos with Maya for Q and A sessions. It’s always helpful to see how mentors animate. Also, he explains a lot of technical tips that make our animation process so much easier.
Courses Taught By Liron
Courses may vary from term to term.