Cent Alantar
Subject taught: natural and architectural design.
Architect, Cent joined the Disney studios in Montreuil in 1996. He started on the animated film Hercules and then moved on to the production of Tarzan and the sets for Kuzco. He is then chosen for the realization of all the sets of the short film Destino. In 2003, Cent resumed his activity as an architect and participated in numerous artistic projects.

John Frye
Subjects taught: vehicles drawing and vehicles design.
John Frye is a modeler and illustrator specializing in vehicle design.
He currently works as a senior designer at Honda and has also taught classes for several years at the Concept Design Academy in Pasadena, California.

Gabriel Yeganyan
Subject taught: architecture design.
Gabriel Yeganyan is a freelance concept artist currently working for Lucasfilm on their live-action Star Wars projects.
Gabriel has previously worked for Respawn Entertainment on “Jedi: Fallen Order”, Section Studios, Riot Games, Infinity Ward, Sony Santa Monica and HBO.
He also teaches at Concept Design Academy in Los Angeles.

Joe Weatherly
Subjects taught: animal morphology and animal drawing.
Joe Weatherly is a Southern California based artist specializing in drawing and painting animals. He has published several books (“Weatherly Guide to Drawing Animals”, “Animal Essence the Art of Joe Weatherly”, “Animal Nature”, and “The Joe Weatherly Sketchbook” volume 1 and 2). He also teaches drawing at major animation studios.

Charlène Letenneur
Subjects taught: theoretical course on locomotion and the diversity of the animal world.
Scientific illustrator working for museums, Charlène is also a teacher and works for publishing and magazines. She specializes in anatomy, natural history, paleontology and reconstruction.

Ramon Alex Hurtadó
Subject taught: 19th-century-style drawing of the human figure.
Ramón is a painter and art teacher living in Los Angeles. He studied drawing and painting with Will Weston, Glenn Vilppu and Adrian Gottlieb while earning a bachelor’s degree at USC.
Today, he teaches at Los Angeles as well as at international workshops.

Thomas Fluharty
Subject taught: drawing with style.
After more than thirty years working in editorial and as a storyboard artist, Thomas Fluharty decided to create a body of work for himself, and for the enjoyment of others, painting what he loves and focusing on pop culture icons.

Matt Jones
Subject taught: gesture drawing.
Writer, director, animator, storyboard artist… Matt Jones has been working in the animation industry for 25 years. He has worked on numerous projects (Across the Spiderverse, Chicken Run 2, Inside Out,…) and for many studios such as Aardman, Pixar, Sony, Netflix,…
He is also the author of numerous books on drawing.

Stephen Silver
Subject taught: character design.
Stephen Silver is a distinguished professional whose multi-faceted career spans more than thirty years.
He has made significant contributions as a character designer (Kim Possible, Danny Phantom), author, lecturer on creativity, teacher,…. 

John Nevarez
Subject taught: storyboard.
John Nevarez is a storyboard artist who has been working in the animation industry for over twenty years. He has worked for Disney Television and Pixar, among others.

Sandro Cleuzo
Subject taught: production design (turn, posing & expressions).
Sandro Cleuzo made his debut in the animation industry when he was just 15.
He worked with the famous director Don Bluth, then started out as an animator at Walt Disney Feature Animation (on films such as Fantasia 2000, The Emperor’s New Groove, Tarzan,…). He continued his career as an animator and storyboard artist, collaborating with numerous studios (Dreamorks, Duncan Studios, Netflix Animation, Sony, etc.).

Florian Stazinger
Subject taught: machine design.
After working as a character designer and visual development artist for clients such as Warner Bros, Disney,…, Florian Satzinger now works on his own independent projects, based around the Donald Duck character, under the “Duckland” and “Paperwalker” labels.