MEET YOUR SPECIAL GUEST
John Mahoney
John Mahoney worked as a visual development artist for Disney Feature Animation on films including Atlantis, Treasure Planet and The Emperor's New Groove. During his time at Disney he contributed to a total of 10 feature films. He has also worked for Lucasfilm, Miramax, and Heavy Metal Magazine.
Meet Your Host Darren Kiner
I am a very experienced CGI Lighting Artist, Lighting Supervisor and CG Supervisor. For the last 3.5 years, I have been the Lighting and Compositing Director on the Nickelodeon television series Big Nate, where I helped design the look of the show, especially the lighting. In the past, I have worked in Visual Effects on such films as Alita, Battle Angel (at Weta Digital, NZ) and on many Animated Features (Aladdin, Fantasia 2000, Iron Giant, Hotel Transylvania, etc). More recently, I was the CG Supervisor for the Lighting Department on Netflix’s The Willoughbys (Bron Animation, Vancouver). I am currently developing both live action and animated projects.
Grab a look at his bio and links to his other sites: Darren Kiner
"The goal of these talks / interviews is to really help artists learn how to steer their careers in the way that benefits both them and our animation community." ~Darren Kiner
