Bios

Chelsea Herzog

            Chelsea has been interested in film and animation for a very long time. Even when she was little, she spent hours drawing and creating weird characters and stories. She never imagined she would be able to do that for a career when she grew up. Chelsea specializes in character animation and modeling; however, she is also very interested in lightning and texturing. Her style tends to be on the cute and colorful side, but because she always wants to improve and grow as an artist, Chelsea is very versatile and is familiar with darker stories as well. Her favorite animated films of all time are “The Lion King,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” and “One Hundred and One Dalmatians.”

Eric Michelsen

            Eric is a senior at Bowling Green State University studying digital arts, focusing in animation. He has been interested in animation since a very young age and has been drawing since he was a toddler. He has been animating for two years and enjoys 3D modeling as well. His concepts usually deal with metaphysical spirituality and the grotesque consciousness of the human mind. Eric wishes to become a character animator in the gaming industry as a career. His favorite animations are the “Toy Story” trilogy, “Rocko’s Modern Life”, “Attack on Titan”, and the “Looney Toons”.

Allison Shedloski

            Alison is a third year digital arts student at Bowling Green State University. She specializes in 3D animation but enjoys creating her own stop-motion creations in her spare time. Alison has been interested in animation ever since she found out how they are created. However, she’s been interested in art ever since she could pick up a crayon. She enjoys the fluidity of movement you can achieve through animation, and the processes to achieve such fluidity. Her style tends to be a mix of cute and creepy simple stories. Many of the influences on her work are films and shows from the Walt Disney Company, the creations of Laika Studios, and the imaginings of Studio Ghibli.

Matt Schomisch

Matt is an animation student in his third year at Bowling Green State University. Matt’s passion for animation was first sparked by animations like Courage the Cowardly Dog, Avatar: The Last Air-bender and films made by The Walt Disney Company. While primarily interested in perusing a career in 2D-Animation, Matt realized the popularity of 3D-Animation and has worked over the past few years to hone his skills and adapt as best as he can to this new medium. Through his first few 3D Animation classes at BGSU Matt learned that his strengths in 3D-Animation lay in character modeling and that his weakness was rigging. His stories usually involve an ironic or dark twist on a familiar concept.