simone brundisini
Animator at Sony Pictures Imageworks, Simone graduated in Physics from the University of Bologna in 2009 and then studied Animation at the Vancouver Film School 2010/2011. He worked on the special effects of The Hunger Games: Mokingjay (p2) and a Disney / Marvel project where he had the opportunity to animate Iron Man. Once hired at Sony Pictures Imageworks in Vancouver he had the pleasure to work on Smallfoot, Spiderman into the Spider-Verse, Glen Keane's 'Over the moon'. In addition to his work as an animator, he has been teaching at Vancouver Film School and La Salle college.
roberto tifi
Always passionate about animation, after graduating in Digital Communication, Roberto began his career as an animator in 2009. He trained by working in Italian and international studios participating in TV series and feature films. He is currently a senior animator in Sony Imageworks, Vancouver. In his decades of experience he worked in productions such as Storks, Smallfoot, The Angry Birds Movie and the most recent The Angry Birds Movie 2.
leonardo bonisolli
Leonardo Begins his career on hit TV shows such as TMNT and MaxSteel; he helped bring characters to life, such as Batman (Batman v Superman), Tenaxis (Star Trek Beyond), Deadpool (Deadpool 2) and Megakaiju (Pacific Rim Uprising) to the screens. Among the various highlights of his career we mention the Oscar won for Blade Runner 2049 and the role of Lead animator on "Venom" which still continues in DNEG on new films.
(request the password of his reel at info@vivoanimationschool.com)
Aniket Natekar
Aniket was born and raised in India and since a very young age, he was that kid in the class who loves to draw. His love for animation was a natural progression from there on. Like a good Indian boy, Aniket completed his Bachelors' in Mechanical Engineering and then moved to Vancouver to pursue his childhood dream of becoming an animator. Graduating from the Vancouver Film School's Classical Animation program in 2008, his first job took him to France, where he worked as a 2D animator for Ankama Entertainment. Wanting to make the transition into feature animation, he moved back to Canada in 2012 and took an online program at CG Spectrum College of Digital Art and Animation with a diploma in 3D animation. During this time, he was an animation supervisor on a few TV shows for Hasbro and Teletoon and also animated on a pilot for Amazon's 'Niko and the Sword of Light'.He got his first break in CG Feature Animation in 2014 with Bron Animation's 'Henchmen'. As one of the lead animators on Netlfix's 'The Willoughbys' he is very proud of the unique animation style that the team developed for the movie. Since then he's worked as a Senior Animator on Glen Keane's 'Over the moon' and is currently working at Sony Pictures Imageworks.