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1 0 P E R S P E C T I V E | J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 3 C O N T R I B U T O R S His animated commercials include clients such as Häagen-Dazs, Coca-Cola, Diet Dr Pepper, Samsung, Trident, and Hallmark for production houses House Special, Bent Image Lab and Laika. In 2001, Curt received a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation for his art direction of the "Phish Phry" episode (which was set dressed by Pinocchio's own Art Director, Rob DeSue) of Gary & Mike, a stop-motion animated TV show and in 2018 was honored by the Art Directors Guild as part of the team responsible for Isle of Dogs. A A R O N S O W D is a renowned Illustrator, storyboard artist and creative director based in Los Angeles. He has worked in the entertainment industry for over 20 years, bringing his versatility and expertise to feature films, TV, animation, video games, advertising and online media. A firm believer in sharing his craft and giving back to the creative community, Aaron has taught his storyboarding for filmmakers class at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and Otis College of Art and Design, as well as being a guest speaker at both SIGGRAPH and Comic-Con. He has worked with directors such as Steven Spielberg, Sam Raimi, Akiva Goldsman, Michel Gondry, Doug Liman, Michael Bay, John Watts and Kat Coiro among others. His work on Maleficent: Mistress of Evil with director Joachim Rønning and acclaimed Production Designer Patrick Tatopoulos was nominated for an ADG Award for Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Feature Film. A few of his recent credits include Black Adam, Spider- Man: Far From Home, Godzilla vs. Kong, Ms. Marvel, Star Trek: Picard, Fear the Walking Dead, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and the upcoming Secret Invasion. Aaron recently storyboarded the pilot episode of The Sex Lives of College Girls which received a GLAAD Media Award nomination. Aaron works extensively in film, commercials, theme park design and comic books, with clients as diverse as Bad Robot, Disney, DreamWorks, Apple, Coca- Cola, Lexus, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, Top Cow and Upper Deck. Aaron currently lives by the beach in Marina del Rey and resents the fact that he has no free time with which to enjoy it. G U Y D AV I S is a self-taught creature/ concept designer and Production Designer from Michigan providing concept work in film, television and video game productions. A frequent collaborator of Guillermo del Toro and Production Designer on Pinocchio, his concept designs have appeared in Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley, Crimson Peak, Pacific Rim, The Strain, The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XXIV and recently worked as creature concept designer on the anthology series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. Other design work includes Antlers, The Sea Beast, LOTR: The Rings of Power, Monster Hunter, Lost in Space, MST3K, Steven Universe, Diablo IV, Gears of War 4, the upcoming Alone in the Dark and Production Designer on an unannounced Netflix feature. C U R T E N D E R L E trained as a Set Designer for live theater and based in Portland, Oregon. Curt has had a role in generating over 13 hours of stop-motion animated content. Past film work includes art directing Wes Anderson's 2018 stop- motion animated film Isle of Dogs and Laika's 2014 stop-motion hybrid release The Boxtrolls. He also served as one of the Set Designers for the studio's 2012 ParaNorman. Recent episodic includes the first series (sans pilot) of The Shivering Truth, written by PFFR's Vernon Chatman at ShadowMachine Portland for Adult Swim. Prior to his longest-continuous-ever-since-grad- school employment with Laika, Curt split his time between design for live theater and opera and art direction for stop-motion animated commercials. Recent projects include the world premiere of Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made for Oregon Children's Theatre, Elixir of Love, La Calisto, Albert Herring, The Rape of Lucretia and Philip Glass's Galileo Galilei for Portland Opera, Middletown, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Gray Sisters, Fabuloso!, Nobody Here But Us Chickens and A Lesson From Aloes for Third Rail, and Noises Off and Skin of Our Teeth for the American University in Cairo.