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Joseph has over ten years of experience working in the video game industry as a character artist with a focus on modeling and sculpting. He has created character assets for games including Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Ben 10 Alien Force, Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, and Ghost Recon Future Soldier.

In his free time Joseph kitbashes Kidrobot's Munny Vinyl figures, and gives demos on ZBrush to local schools.

You can find out more about Joseph and his artwork at www.krop.com/josephdrust

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In 2010 Jared Krichevsky completed the CG certificate program at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects. While attending school, he also completed his internship at The Aaron Sims Company. Jared works as a concept artist and modeler, primarily using modern 3D tools such as ZBrush and Keyshot. In addition Jared teaches Introduction to ZBrush and Creature Modeling/Sculpting at the Gnomon School of VFX in Hollywood, CA. He has worked on upcoming films such as Jupiter Ascending, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Darren Aronofsky's Noah.

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Dominic is a Character Artist who specializes in game art and 3d concept design. He started out his career working as a 3d generalist in post-production houses where he dabbled in asset creation, lighting, animation and compositing. A few years later, he made a switch to the games industry where he specialized in 3D character art. Currently, he works at Blizzard Entertainment as a Senior Cinematic Artist. His recent projects include titles such as Killzone 2, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty and Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Diablo 3 and Hearthstone. His work at Blizzard consists of real-time character and environment asset creation, as well as lighting for in-game cinematics. He also enjoys creating digital sculptures for 3d printing along with a passion for designing creatures and monsters.

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A 20+ year veteran of the computer animation scene, Steve has worked as an animation director, character designer and animator on hundreds of national brands ranging from BMW, Pepsi, General Mills, Target, Reese's and M&M's, to the ground-breaking feature films Joe's Apartment, Ice Age, Alien Resurrection and the 1988 Academy Award winning short, Bunny.

In 2008, Steve launched Sketchbot Studios and self-produced his first foray into the designer toy scene - the retro-styled, pencil-wielding creative robot, Sketchbot. In 2010, the Sketchbot platform served as the basis for two highly successful DIY custom shows held in NYC and LA.

Recently relocated to Los Angeles, CA, Steve has been immersed with ZBrush, working as a freelance modeler and outputting his 3d sculpts to serve as master prototypes for future toy projects.

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Punn Wiantrakoon has been using ZBrush in his CG character creations for nearly 10 years. He started using ZBrush while at Luma Pictures to create the creature for the film The Cave back in 2004. He has used every version of ZBrush to date since then while fully adopting it in his work at ImageMovers Digital as a CG Concept Artist. He created many characters for the remake of The Beatles' Yellow Submarine. Although the project never made it out of development, he was able to re-imagine some of the most memorable characters from the original movie by utilizing ZBrush. Punn is currently a visual development artist at Dreamworks Animation who lives on the west side of Los Angeles with his lovely wife and two furry kitty cats.

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Loic "e338" Zimmermann is a French, Los Angeles based visual-artist.

Mostly busy with concept-art or 3D Character-Lead for movies, Loic is also developing his own body of work and has been part of numerous group exhibitions and publications over the past decade.