Austin Arnett

Austin started in the industry in January 2011 at Respawn Entertainment. He’s worked on Titanfall as a Mid-level Environment Artist, continued on to Titanfall 2 as a Senior Environment Artist and continued that work through 2016.  His career expanded when he moved into more of an Environment/ Lighting role for Apex Legends.  Currently Austin is a Principal Lighting Artist at Respawn Entertainment, developing for Apex legends.

Zhao Wang

Zhao is currently a Senior FX Artist at Dreamworks Animation, working on the film ‘Boss Baby 2’, taking care of complicated fx tasks like snow, water, explosion, fire, smoke, dust, etc. He worked on lots of cinematics at Blizzard like ‘Diablo 4 – by tree they come’, ‘Overwatch 2, announcement’, ‘World of WarCraft – Safe Haven’, ‘Warcraft – Reforged’, Overwatch Character Episodes, etc.

Marianne Hayden

With 15 years in the video game industry, Marianne Hayden is an experienced and proven cinematic and interactive-in-game-sequence animator, having contributed to shipping of every game in the Uncharted franchise and The Last of Us and The Last of Us: Part II, amongst others. Marianne is currently working on an unannounced project at Naughty Dog. She has two children and resides in Santa Monica, CA.

Troy Mishler

Troy has been in the games industry for over a decade as a 3D Environment Artist, Tester and Game Master.  He’s worked on games such as Everquest Next/Landmark, Everquest 2, Shadow of the Colossus Remake, and the recently Announced Demon Souls Remake and PS5  Launch Title.  Troy has now transitioned from the games production realm to games education and is happily developing the next Generation of Game Artists at UIW as the Environment Productions Arts Instructor.

Anna Faryniarz

A recent graduate from UIW. She was an Animation Intern at PlayStation’s San Diego Studio and is now a 3D Animator at Rooster Teeth working on RWBY.

Kassandra Arevalo

Kassandra Arevalo is an Instructor of Animation with the UIW Animation & Game Design department. She previously was an animator with Immersed Games.

Raquel Kasprzyk

A narrative animator at Santa Monica Studios, and a graduate from UIW.  She’s worked on titles such as Death Stranding and Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order.