Jason Smith worked as a character Animator for Pivot VFX Studios, a position he applied for after he successfully finished his Animation studies at AnimatonMentor.com

Jason grew up in Minnesota. After working in the field of mechanical engineering, Jason decided to peruse his old passion for animation by applying and studying "Media Arts" degree at the Art Institute of Colorado and then after studying Animation Online. Ever since he has been animating in several projects including commercials, feature films and more.

As of 2013, Jason worked on Sony Pictures latest 3D animated movie: "Smurfs 2" and "The Smurfs: Legend of Smurfy Hollow".

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Samantha Kallis is an illustrator and visual development artist for the publishing, television and film animation industry. Since graduating from Art Center College of Design in 2010, she worked with several animation studios such as Sony Pictures Animation, Nickelodeon and Unified Pictures.

Samantha was born in New Jersey, but grew up in Los Angeles, where she started her future career as an artist on television, film, publishing, and art galleries.

Samantha's latest work as a visual developer and illustrator is noted in the upcoming 3D Animated movie "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" by Sony Pictures Animation Studios.

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Simon Unger is a 12-year veteran animator in the video game industry. He is currently a lead Animator at "Robotoki", an independent game studio located in Los Angeles, California and a former Animator at Electronic Arts.

Simon worked as an Animator on some of the most popular games (which released on various platforms) such as: "NBA Live", "MVP" and "Hitman: Absolution".

Simon grew up in Vancouver, Canada. He started his career as an animator for "Mainframe Entertainment", creating 3D shows like "Reboot" and "Action Man". With the aid of his friend, and worker at EA, Simon found himself working as an animator on sports games and franchises.

As of 2013, Simon is working on the future game release: "Human Element".

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Ken Fountain is the founder and animator at SplatFrog Animation Studio and worked as a character Animator for DreamWorks Animation Studios on memorable 3D animated films such as "Monters vs. Aliens", "Shrek Forever After" and "Megamind". He is also a course instructor at the online Animation School iAnimate.

Ken grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago, USA. He started animating at thirty years old, after chasing a glamorous career of playing rock music around the country. Ken grew up drawing and learning from Marvel comics and studied art at high-school. After doing professional animation for the Advertising industry, Ken enrolled to "Animation Mentor" online school and since graduation he has been animating professionally!

As of 2013, Ken works at his own studio and creates educational animation for both SplatFrog and CrackerBox Studios.

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