Advisory Board
Advisory Board
Scott E. Anderson is an Academy Award winning visual effects supervisor and filmmaker and a leader in the creative application of digital and visual effects technologies to the film industry. Scott has been nominated for an Academy Award three times (Babe, Starship Troopers, Hollow Man), and received the Oscar for Babe. He was also a key contributor to the Oscar winning films The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and King Kong.
Rob DeMillo is a seasoned C-level technology executive, experienced in navigating complex digital landscapes and driving technological innovation across various sectors. As the former Chief Technology Officer at Nimble Collective and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Rob led significant advancements in media technologies, graphics/visualization, cloud computing, and machine learning applications. His leadership at Nimble Collective pioneered cloud-based animation platforms, setting the stage for a revolution in digital content creation.
Rex Grignon is a renowned animation director and entrepreneur, known for his work as the Head of Character Animation for DreamWorks Animation from 1995-2014, where he worked on movies such as Shrek and the Madagascar trilogy. Rex was most recently the co-founder and CEO of Nimble Collective, which was acquired by Amazon in 2019.
Graham Heavenrich, known online as Cowbelly, is the founder of Cowbelly Studios, a Gen-Z media conglomerate with over 35 million followers, operating a meme creation studio that publishes to YouTube and TikTok. In addition to their thousands of viral original memes, their catalog also boasts the exclusive rights to hundreds of wildly popular videos online — adding new ones every day.
Tom Porter is the former Senior Vice President, Production Strategy at Pixar Animation Studios. Tom was a part of the founding team at Pixar, and over his career has contributed his technical talent and supervision to many of the studios' notable films including Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Cars, and WALL.E. Tom also developed many technical innovations over his career, and has been awarded with three Scientific & Technical Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Galyn Susman was formerly at Pixar Animation Studios, where she did hands-on production work on their early projects, was supervising technical director of Toy Story 2, and was a producer of over a dozen projects including Ratatouille, Toy Story 4, and Lightyear. Galyn recently co-founded Ibex Studios, an independent animation development studio.