Austin Baur is a director and visual effects supervisor. He began his career as a visual effects artist and colorist, working on productions such as “Star Trek: Discovery” and “Moon and Me”. With Trilith Studios in Atlanta, he helped found Storage Room Animation, where he wrote and directed Trilith’s first animated production, “Hello Cozmo”. He most recently worked with Silver Comet Productions, helping bring their animated band "Star Forest" to life. Austin brings a story-first approach to all his work, lending a storyteller’s eye to animation and visual effects. He holds a BFA in film production from Florida State University.
Bob Carter is an internationally recognized Voice Actor, Audio Director, Voice Coach, & Media Advisor known for voicing characters such as Ptah & Set in Asgard's Wrath 2, Black Adam in Multiversus, Odin, Olorun, & Atlas in SMITE, Balrog in the Street Fighter series, Shao Khan & Baraka in Mortal Kombat 9, Bojack in Dragonball Z, Lifeless Planet, Arcadegeddon, Saga of Sins, and many other popular characters across a wide range of video games. Carter also has voiced many anime projects such as Rise of the Shield Hero, Lycoris Recoil, Misfit of Demon King Academy, Gundam Build Divers, Mashle, Tokyo 24th Ward, Odd Taxi, Housing Complex C, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Fairy Tail, My Hero Academia, Dragonball Z, Full Metal Alchemist, Samurai 7, Blassreiter, and many other cartoons, anime series, audio books, and audio dramas. He's an avid TTRPGer & DM who owns the Neighborhood Studio- a Teaching & Production Studio in Atlanta where he helps Aspiring Creatives become Working Creatives. He is also a Celebrity D&D Gamer with decades of experience playing in and running various D&D, Pathfinder, Heroes Unlimited, and Star Wars Campaigns if people or other Creatives want to get together for fun Celebrity Panels as well.
Animator, Animation Lead/Director, Team Lead, Project Lead, 26 years of game development experience. Years of experience animating and leading animators and content teams. Talent recruitment and development. Animation design. Pipeline and feature design.
Danya Levine is an award-winning Production Director and co-lead of the WIA Atlanta Collective. She has produced for NBC, CNN, and Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Her credits include Aqua Teen Hunger Force, an animated version of Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell and the first live-action special Adult Swim Yule Log. Levine has produced live programming at Comic-Con, The Adult Swim Music Festival, and the 2008 YOUTUBE debates for CNN. She is a “Creative Instigator” who embraces risk and challenges to create memorable content. Currently, she is the Director at SCAD Film Studios Atlanta where immersive and innovative work comes to life on their incredible XR stage.
Mark Simon is 35+ years in the entertainment industry known as the Godfather of Storyboards and owner of Storyboards & Animatics, Inc, as well as a producer and director for live action and animation, and has amassed over 6,000 production credits. Recent credits include more than 60 movies and tv series like Stranger Things, The Walking Dead, Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Dexter, Snowfall, Woody Woodpecker and Black Lightning. He is the animation producer for Universal's How High 2 and Little Rascals movies and Fox's Tooth Fairy 2 feature. Mark participated in a 2012 Prime Time Engineering Emmy for his work with the Toon Boom software team behind the Storyboard Pro software, of which he is one of their Ambassadors. He was also inducted into the DAVE School (Digital Animation & Visual Effects School) Hall of Fame. Mark has pitched and sold more than 35 production and distribution deals for his original concepts, and worked with Disney, Nickelodeon, The Golf Channel, HSN and other networks pitching in-house productions. His articles have been seen in Animation Magazine, Animation World Network, Cinefex, Filmmaker Magazine, Moviemaker Magazine and others. He is also the author of 13 books including the best-selling Facial Expressions books, the bible of the storyboard industry, Storyboards: Motion In Art, 3rd Edition, the inspirational Start At The Top and his most recent, the memoir Attacked!, about when he was bullied and his family was attacked. He lectures around the world at major conferences, and universities.
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Todd is an accomplished entrepreneur who has been leading video game and esports businesses for 15 years and involved with technology product startups for 25 years. After leading product development at FinTech companies Radiant Systems and BlueCube Software, Todd co-founded Hi-Rez Studios, one of the largest video game studios in the Southeast with 120 million players of their games. Todd is currently Founder & CEO of Skillshot Media, a leading esports production company, CEO of esports professional org Ghost Gaming, Chair of the Network of Academic and Scholastic Esports Federations (NASEF), and Chair of the Atlanta Esports Alliance. Skillshot connects leading brands to engaged esports fans. The company has produced thousands of esports events and live-stream productions, paid out over $10M in prizing for competitive video games, and delivered over 1 billion views of esports content. Ghost Gaming is an Atlanta-based professional esports team and gaming lifestyle brand that has won 15 tournament championships and cultivated a fan base of over 20 million. NASEF is the leading scholastic esports solution for K-12 students, providing opportunities for all students to use esports as a platform to acquire critical communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills. Atlanta Esports Alliance is a division of the Atlanta Sports Council with a mission to establish Metro Atlanta as a global esports capital.