Past Speakers
Past Keynote Speakers
Rick O'Connor
Rick O’Connor is an animator for Industrial Light & Magic. His credits include Star Wars: Episode I - III, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Transformers, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Star Trek and Iron Man 2.
John Canemaker
John Canemaker is a renowned animator whose work includes the Academy Award-winning short, The Moon and the Son. He is also executive director of the animation program at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
Past Featured Speakers
Scott and Georgia Ball
Scott and Georgia Ball operate the Animation Closet LLC. They combine their backgrounds in traditional animation with Flash animation, web design, print production and advertising to produce unique projects for clients including the Cartoon Network, Microsoft and IBM.
Dave Dorman
Dave Dorman is an Eisner award-winning illustrator who has been working as a professional artist since 1979. He is best known for his photo-realistic renderings of action and fantasy subjects.
Zareh Gorjian
Zareh works for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, producing scientific animations and visualizations for JPL scientists and missions.
Conrad Montgomery
Conrad is the Recruitment Coordinator for Walt Disney Television Animation, working on such shows such as Disney’s Kim Possible, Emperor’s New School, American Dragon and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
Bob Schreck
Bob is a Group Editor at DC Comics working on such titles as Batman, Detective Comics, Toe Tags with George Romero, Green Arrow, All Star: Batman & Robin, and All Star: Superman.
Michael Stribling
Michael is an artist for Visual Concepts Entertainment where he has created a variety of art assets from player likenesses, to customizable athletic shoes, to special marketing materials for 2KSports.
Matt Wagner
Introduced one of comicdom's most respected creator-owned characters--the mastermind assassin, Grendel. Best known for this epic creation and his other, more personal, allegory, Mage, Matt has also worked on a variety of established characters.
Rich McKain
Animator, Blue Sky Studios
Rich has served as an animator for Ice Age: The Meltdown and Blue Sky's fourth full length feature film based on the Dr. Suess classic Horton Hears a Who.
