The Talent
An ever-growing collective of the world's most interesting animators, directors, illustrators, and creative technologists.
Wombot Studio
Melbourne-based animation studio (Felix Colgrave & Zoë Medcraft) producing whimsical short-form animation, music videos, and game design for clients worldwide.
Yonk
The Hague-based duo (Vikki Young & Niels van der Donk) creating maximalist, VR-sculpted 3D characters with squishy, clay-like forms. Playful, vibrant, and delightfully strange.
Lucas Ansel
Academy Award–winning filmmaker working across stop-motion, live-action, and 3D animation for clients including Adidas and Pierre Bourne.
David Delafuente
New York-based animator and designer (RISD) whose hand-drawn and rotoscoped films explore queerness and romanticism, screened at festivals internationally.
Phoebe Jane Hart
Stop-motion animator (CalArts MFA) whose surreal handcrafted shorts explore human psychology through dark humor. Bug Diner won the Sundance 2024 Animation Jury Award.
Jesse Moynihan
Peabody Award–winning artist, storyboard artist on Adventure Time, and creator of the psychedelic graphic novel series Forming.
Charles Huettner
Experimental animation director and co-creator of Scavengers Reign, known for densely textured 2D work that pushes the limits of independent and commercial animation.
Flora Anna Buda
Hungarian animator and director. Her film "27" won the Palme d'Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, and screened at Telluride, Toronto, and Sundance.
Alfie Dwyer
Bristol-based animator and multimedia artist. Surreal, body-focused short films and music videos for Adult Swim, Aphex Twin, and others — blending dark comedy with dreamlike digital worlds.
Tumblehead
Award-winning Danish animation studio (Viborg) founded by Magnus Møller and Peter Smith in 2011. Pushing CG, hand-drawn, and stop-motion animation with a distinctive Nordic style.
Nayon Cho
New York-based Korean artist & animation director. Blending traditional and digital drawing, she transforms intricate, hidden emotions into visceral animations.
Lena Greene
New York-based animator, director, and illustrator (RISD) working across 2D animation, stop motion, and live action for HBO, Comedy Central, Vice, and Lana Del Rey.
Sasa Budimir
Zagreb-based freelance 3D artist and animator with 20+ years across commercials, film, and animated shorts. Known for character animation and generalist CG production.
Peter Millard
London-based artist/animator and lecturer (Kingston School of Art). Has made several spontaneous playful abstract hand-drawn shorts that have been screened and awarded internationally at film festivals and galleries.
Jack Jobling
Director and animator crafting surreal, character-driven narratives that blend live-action sensibility with bold graphic animation. Work spans commercials, shorts, and music videos.
Sam Hochman
Animator and director (aka DogDogDog) known for dynamic, stylized 3D worlds full of unique characters, humor, and adventure. One of the most inventive voices in independent 3D animation.
Felipe Di Poi
Buenos Aires-born animator and director (RISD/Brown). Comedy-driven films including The Long and Lonesome Road to Grandma's have been featured on Adult Swim and screened at major festivals worldwide.
Maks Rzontkowski
Director and animator crafting striking visual work that spans commercial, experimental, and personal film. A distinctive voice in contemporary motion and design.
Alex Futtersak
Computer artist and Blender wizard creating incredible visuals, worlds, and videogames, often leveraging stylized rendering.
MallBat
Jesse aka MallBat is a prolific animator making aesthetic-bending cross-medium 3D/2D animations, merging retro graphics with all kinds of other media. Her work has screened at festivals internationally and she has a prominent and growing following on youtube.
Hugo Shiboski & Will Wharton
Animator and musician Hugo Shiboski and director / media artist Will Wharton create playful, meticulously crafted 3D worlds for live concert visuals and new media.
Tom Goulet
LA-based director and motion graphics artist known for animated titles, music videos, and commercial work — including the HBO documentary Time Bomb Y2K.
Sander Joon
Estonian animator and director whose surreal, emotionally rich films have screened at Cannes, Sundance, and festivals worldwide. Known for his distinctly poetic visual language.
Kelly Schiesswohl
Queens-based multimedia artist and animation director who bridges the gap between the distinctly digital and tactile to build worlds that explore the intersections of vulnerability, eclecticism, femininity, and design.
Kate Costello
Animator and director with a flair for expressive character work and inventive storytelling across 2D and mixed-media animation.
Josh Shaffner
Josh Shaffner is a Los Angeles, CA / Missoula, MT-based artist and animator. His work ranges from oil painted animation to vintage style digital animation. As a freelance artist, he has directed for films and music videos along with writing, directing and producing his own award winning short films.
David Gelfand
Toronto-based 3D animator making cringe-comedy character films. Work includes Adult Swim's Off The Air and screenings at LIAF and Pictoplasma.
Lola Lefèvre
French animation director whose music video "Ye Kou Si Kuo" won the Annecy 2025 Cristal for commissioned film. Bold lines, surreal emotional expressiveness.
Corrinne James
LA-based hand-drawn filmmaker with music videos for Ice Spice and Snail Mail, and work in Don Hertzfeldt's Animation Mixtape. Impressionistic, non-linear, deeply felt.
Sacha Beeley
UK animator known for playful characters, vivid color, and natural comic timing. Grad film "Big Toast" screened at BFI London Film Festival 2019.
Julia Farkas
Budapest-based animation director and character designer with 2 billion Giphy views. Clients include Warner Bros, Adult Swim, and MTV.
Animation Oz
Czech family studio (Lee & Eliška Oz) specializing in stop-motion, traditional, and 2D vector animation since 2016. Work shown at festivals worldwide.
Dominik Johann
Berlin-based animator, illustrator and BAFTA-nominated game developer (Minit, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe), creating works that move between eerie and charming, drawing on internet culture and liminal dreamlike environments, featured at Pictoplasma, Ottawa, and Annecy.
Conor Kehelly
Irish animator/illustrator in London blending golden-age animation, weirdcore 3D, CRT aesthetics, and storybook vibes.
Cool 3D World
Cool 3D World is a multimedia studio established in 2015 by digital artists Brian Tessler and Jon Baken. The duo is renowned for crafting meticulously animated alternative worlds and surrealist narratives.
AJ Jefferies
Director, animator and illustrator from the UK, with over 25 years experience and a passion for character-driven comedy. His multi-award winning short films have screened at over 50 festivals world-wide.
Luca Depardon
Animator, illustrator and director working across short films, looping GIFs, and illustration with a playful, hand-crafted aesthetic.
Conner Griffith
Award-winning filmmaker and Emmy-nominated editor living in Los Angeles. Creative editor specializing in replacement animation.
Andy Cahill
2D animator.
Houseguest
The independent creative studio of Joe Rufa — NYC art director, designer and motion designer working across branding, animation and 3D for entertainment, culture and tech.
Adrián Jaffé
Creates playful moving images for films, cultural projects, and creative studios. Works primarily in Blender and After Effects.
Peter Javidpour
LA-based creative 3D artist working in realtime and interactive, with a funny character-driven style. Works in Blender and Unreal.
Milly Cohen
3D artist and interactive designer making playful digital worlds, web games, and character-driven experiences. Work includes Frogsona, Dolphin Hyperspace, The Virtu-Space, and Eternal Family.
Jan Hebein
Austria-based freelance Houdini artist, combining technical and creative work with a curiosity for exploration and experimentation. No category.
Arius Ziaee
LA-based animator, illustrator and musician. CalArts experimental animation — hand-drawn shorts, music videos and album art built out of lumpy creature worlds.
Kate Renshaw-Lewis
LA-based experimental animator specializing in whimsical hand-drawn and mixed media animation. Her short 'Busy Bodies' screened at the Sundance Film Festival and won the jury award at Slamdance. She gained her BFA from CalArts and has worked for Adult Swim, Vice, and The Museum of Jurassic Technology.
Christopher Rutledge
Known by some (unofficially) as the "Mayor of Animation", and by others for his technical chops designing and supervising bespoke pipelines that bridge experimental VFX and production for Apple, Nike, Netflix, and beyond. He started Amalgamation in order to help get more unique work made by his talented friends and seen by everyone, helping to improve the media diet of humanity.