Ben Levin hails from the burgeoning metropolis that is Olney, Maryland.

He draws his inspiration from a youth spent rocking out to third wave ska shows and striking out with its female appreciators.

His mom says he's good at drawing, but you know how moms are.

www.benlevin.net

Geoff Oki was born and raised in Sacramento, CA and moved to Los Angeles to earn a BA in Design and Media Arts at UCLA.

Other than directing for Nylon Motion, Oki does illustration, design, and animation, having done everything from album covers to t-shirt graphics, concert posters and film websites.

He is enthusiastic about new and interesting projects that not only create more exposure for the company, but the client as well.

Check out more about Geoff at www.geoffoki.com

Ben Meinhardt is currently working on another personal subversive short film ala "Animals in Love" but in the meantime, his professional animation jobs have included work on TV shows, "Ed, Edd, and Eddy" and "Harvey Birdman.

crazydeathmonkey.com is a collection of his personal and professional work.

Please give him some money to make some more films.

...but in the meantime, he is paying his bills as an animation director for an upcoming animated series on MTV. He currently lives in Vancouver, BC chasing down the animation outsourcing from his native USA.

Sarah Wickliffe is currently finishing up her award-winning senior thesis at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and will be graduating with honors in May 2006. One of her earlier animations, Pieces, screened at Animation

Block Party's September 2004 festival. She currently works as an intern on the Codename: Kids Next Door production at Curious Pictures. Upon graduation, she plans to devote much of her time to developing a pilot and eventually starting a studio of her own.

Dave Schlafman is a contemporary character artist and often finds inspiration for his animations by making hundreds of doodles in his sketchbook. These drawings grow into loose narratives and imaginary worlds. Mr. Schlafman finds a fine balance between mental illness, humor, and innocence in his work. It is his dream to write and illustrate children's books, as well as design characters for animated TV shows.

Dave has shown his animations in many festivals in the US and beyond. Dave recently served as an art director for Hasbro's Trivial Pursuit for Kids animated DVD. The game will hit the shelves in June.

Dave has a soft spot for cereal and his dog Tula.

Checkout his other work at:

www.schlafman.com

Stieg Retlin is a human being who excels at respiration and good manners. In an effort to find the most absurd and fundamentally superfluousness occupation available, he decided that cartoon animation would be the primary focus of its efforts for the 80 odd years he spends flailing and sputtering about on this celestial rock.

As of yet, he has produced a hand full of student films, a crap load of kitschy bedroom electronica, a closet full of sketch books, a scattered amount of comics and illustrated stories, and a few billion half baked schemes.

All this and more can be found at his website: www.plasticflesh.com

Shawn Downey is a self taught artist/animator born, raised, and still residing in Oklahoma. He continues to experiment with many forms of animation, perpetually attempting to create compelling and original imagery. When not engaged with freelance work, Downey enjoys producing his own short films, all of which are independently unique in style, several of which are available at his website:

www.csdowney.com

Not only is Mike Hollingsworth an animator, he's also a cartoonist, stand-up comic and writer. A Renaissance Man! Unfortunately the Renaissance was, like, a hundred years ago or something, so Mike has to take work as an animation supervisor for MTV. Alright, that's enough of the third-person thing. It's me writing this thing. I'm Mike. And I've had a pretty fun year! Including my cartoons appearing in the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival, Annecy, Animation Block Party and The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival. Hire me as a writer on your cartoon damn it!

You can check out more of my work at www.babybirdcomic.com

Greg Condon’s bodysplash won “best original design” at Animation Block Party’s 2005 summer festival. The film was created while Greg was working at a wrestling entertainment company. Toiling through hours of butt kicking footage for hire drove him to design this pile-driver masterpiece during his downtime. All told, the film took about 2 or 3 months to complete and most of that time was spent meticulously erasing backgrounds in Photoshop.

Download bodysplash for your I-Pod here!

Tyler Schroeder is a Vancouver based artist who have worked in layout, animation, design and storyboards for various companies in BC. Currently he is working as Animation Supervisor in the Philippines for an upcoming series. You can view his artwork at www.schroederart.blogspot.com

Pork and Beans Productions Inc. acted as the Producer on this short, Fowl Play. P&B is a Vancouver based animation studio, that provides animation services in producing traditional and flash content for all media types. Founded in 1999 by Jay Surridge, P&B has been active in development and has provided work on series such as Yakkity Yak, My Scene Barbie, shorts for Sesame Workshop, and interactive animation for various Leapfrog Entertainment game devices.

For more information on P&B, please visit www.porkbean.com

Download Fowl Play for your I-Pod here!

Lyz Holder is a Washington D.C. based artist. She recently graduated with a bachelor's (cum laude, my father always interjects) in Kinetic Imagery from VCU in Richmond, VA. She currently is an adjunct professor at the Corcoran College of Art & Design.

In the future she wants to become a storyboard artist and writer for TV and film. Oh, and she wants to have her own syndicated animation studio. www.lyzArts.com is her online portfolio.

You can also visit http://www.myspace.com/pimp_my_casket : PMC's Myspace page. Friend it!

Passionate for film, music video, 3D animation, Kitty Lin was born in Taiwan in 1982 and moved to California when she was 13. For the first year of college she went to Los Angeles. Now in New York living like a thirsty sponge. Check out her work at: http://www.kitsha.com/

Hoosier-born Stephen Neary began animation humbly: with a few G.I. Joes and a movie camera. He's now a junior in NYU's Film and Television program. In 2005, Stephen interned at Warner Bros. Animation on the cartoon hit "Teen Titans." Stephen has also worked on SNL cartoons at Wachtenheim/Marianetti, and is currently an animator at Little Airplane Productions on "Wonder Pets!". He's also excited to finish his next student film, set for completion in May.

His website is: www.stephenneary.com

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Chi Lam moved to Miami in 1995. While studying Graphic Design and Multimedia at New World School of the Arts, he liked to do animation for fun. Currently Chi Lam works for the Rubell Family Collection as a graphic designer and continues to develop the rest of the 10 episodes of his "Superintern" story.

Website: www.kinstuff.net

Jackie LaRosa was born in Long Island where she developed an interest in animation and cartooning at a young age. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts and made several short films during her education. Her film Sasha won the 2006 Dusty Award for Outstanding Animation and has been featured in film festivals from NY to Germany. Many of her inspirations come from books, comics, music and things that randomly float into her head. Jackie currently lives in a mousehole in Brooklyn and continues to experiment with her artwork and cartooning.