Bobby Pontillas is a Filipino-American artist who has worked in the animation and games industries as an animator, character designer, art director, and director for such studios as Disney, Taiko, Blue Sky, ArenaNet and more. He is an Academy Award nominated director for the animated short film, “One Small Step”. Bobby is currently developing anima...

Monica Lago-Kaytis is a Latina-American producer, who made her live action debut with Netflix’s feature The Christmas Chronicles with Clay Kaytis and starring Kurt Russell marks the first feature of her newly created production company Frogbot Films, formed with her partner, veteran animator and director Clay Kaytis.  Born in Hollywood an...

Trent Correy is a Canadian-born shorts director and animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios with over a decade of experience working in the animation industry. Along with animating on films such as Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia and Moana, Trent also directed the animated short film “Drop”, which recently made its debut on Disney Plus. […]

Frank E. Abney III is a California native African-American who grew up with a passion for storytelling, drawing and movies. After graduating from The Art Institute of California – San Francisco, he began working as an animator on game, film and TV projects like Tomb Raider, Disney’s Oscar-winning Frozen and Big Hero 6 and DreamWorks Animation...