Category: SEASON 01

Award winning cartoonist Rachel Nabors is one ambitious gal. Web animation expert, interaction developer, and invited expert at the W3C are just a few of her many worn hats. She’s played a role in interactive projects with names such as Adobe, Sesame Street, and Mozilla, hear of them? Thought you might have. Community is very near to Rachel, as demonstrated in her curation of WebAnimationWeekly.com and founding of slack.animationatwork.com. She’s often off traveling the world spreading awareness and sharing knowledge of this industry to animation hopefuls and creatives. When she’s not globetrotting, she’s navigating her way through her home city of Portland Oregon on her bike. Keep up with this force of a woman on twitter @rachelnabors and rachelnabors.com.

Shadi Petosky is the co-creator and showrunner of a new Amazon series called Danger & Eggs, which focuses on the adventures of a daring child named D.D. Danger and her safety-focused egg best friend, Phillip. Prior to this Shadi worked as an animation supervisor for popular shows including Yo Gabba Gabba!, MAD TV and on titles for feature films including SUPER with Rainn Wilson. D&E is as colorful and entertaining as it is positive, and through this series, Shadi promotes a strong message about mental health and self-love to her audiences. A passionate and experienced veteran of the animation industry, she runs a production company called PUNY Entertainment with Chris Hardwick.

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Puny:
punyentertainment.com/

California native and Yale graduate Karin Fong is a Designer and Director whose influence in the film, television, gaming, AND advertising industries is nothing short of inspirational. Her elevated aesthetic and ability to convey emotion through visuals has proved consistent in her never faltering body of work. These works include opening titles for Boardwalk Empire, South Park, and Black Sail. In addition, she’s worked on main titles for feature films, helmed projects for Target and Honda, and created the cinematic for the PlayStation game God of War 3. Karin is one of the founding members of Imaginary Forces and is currently based in the LA studio.

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www.karinfong.com/
imaginaryforces.com/
twitter.com/karin_fong

Jeanne Kopeck is an award winning and nationally recognized commercial director working in the foothills of Boulder Colorado. Her resume boasts a multitude of Emmy, BDA , and Telly Awards. Her directorial credits include works for the Discovery Channel, Food Network, and HGTV. Jeanne started her career as an overnight “news” artist at KUSA. She spent 15 years at Citizen Pictures moving her way up from Art Director to President/Partner. In 2007 she formed Mrs K, a creative design & production studio specializing in spot work, show packaging, promos, and branding/ID campaigns.

LINKS

Mrs K
mrsk.tv/work

Animal Planet – River Monsters S7
vimeo.com/128167936

Design, Animation, Creative Direction? Check. Check. Check. Rosie Garschina is a triple threat in the creative industry. Her extensive history in print, motion, and digital media has given her ample knowledge to kick ass in her current position as Associate Creative Director with Trollback and Company. Her elegant and thoughtful design solutions stand out in a highly competitive field. Some familiar brands Rosie has collaborated with include but are not limited to New York Times, Chase Bank, MetLife and Perry Ellis.

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Portfolio:
www.garschina.com/

Trollbäck+Company
trollback.com/

AIGA Conference (Reduction)
trollback.com/aiga-conference/

Creative Director Kelli Miller, is one hell of a strong woman in mograph. She graduated from Cranbrook in 2006, with an Master of Fine Arts in 2D design. She co-founded And/Or with copywriter and wife Kendra Eash in 2014. And/Or is a creative studio in Brooklyn that has worked with MTV, SundanceTV, Logo and Vevo to provide media-acclaimed branding and show packages. One of her favorite jobs is the show packaging she designed for HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Kelli’s satirical humor, zippy intellect, and unique 8-bit style in her illustrated ‘zine ‘Total Bummer’ earned her a For Print Only award. On top of teaching lectures and undergraduate classes at various colleges, including NYU and Pratt, she is also in a band called Tammy.

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And/Or:
Website
Behance
Vimeo

TAMMY:
Tammy Facebook
Tammy Soundcloud