ALEX WOO - director

After attending high school in Hong Kong, Alex returned to the United States to attend college at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He recentely graduated from the undergraduate Film/TV Production program, where he won the Russell Hexter Filmmaker Award, and the Richard Protovin Award for Excellence in Animation. He has spent the past three years working on his first film, "Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher", which has won numerous awards at festivals around the US, including the prestigious Student Academy Award and the Director's Guild of America Student Filmmaker Award. He will also be participating in next years Cannes Film Festival as part of Kodak's highly selective Emerging Filmmakers Program.

Alex currently works for Pixar Animation Studios as a story artist. You can visit his blog at http://www.woohoopictures.blogspot.com

BILL PRESING - co creator

Bill Presing has been working in the animation industry for over seven years. After graduating from the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in 1996, Bill soon began work on various commercials and animated television shows, including Walt Disney Television’s “Doug”, “PB&J Otters” and “Lizzie Mcguire”. He has also worked on a number of Cartoon Network shows as a storyboard artist, including “Sheep in the Big City”, and the upcoming “The Venture Bros”. Bill has also worked as an Art Director on the Warner Bros. Animation web cartoon “Gotham Girls” and various General Mills commercial spots.

Bill’s work has been recognized by a number of a award committees and institutions. The “LUGZ” commercial spot he illustrated was nominated for an ANNIE award, and his work on the animated opening for “The Rosie O’Donnell Show “won him a prestigious Daytime Emmy award. Bill is also the co-creator of “Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher”, a comic book for which he received a nomination for the 2000 IGNATZ award for outstanding artist..

Bill Presing is currently a storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios.

MATT PETERS - co creator

Matt Peters has made animation his profession now for seven years. After graduating from the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in 1996, Matt has worked on projects ranging from commercials to television animation. He has worked as a storyboard artist and designer for such Walt Disney television cartoons as “Doug”, “PB&J Otter”, “101 Dalmatians”, and “Sabrina The Teenage Witch”. He has also storyboarded for Cartoon Network on such shows as “Codename: Kids Next Door” and “Sheep in the Big City”, as well as various pilot episodes including the soon-to-be-released “The Venture Bros.”. Matt has also storyboarded web-animation for the Gotham Girls web-cartoon by Warner Bros. Animation.

In addition to animation, Matt has worked in illustration and publishing heading the storybook department of Disney's Doug as well as PB&J Otter. His contributions to the “Monkeysuit” anthologies are as the co-creator of “Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher” and also as artist and writer of various other short comics.

Matt Peters is currently completing back to back seasons of Cartoon Network's hit show Codename: Kids Next Door.

RYAN SHORE - composer

RYAN SHORE has been composing professionally for film for the past seven years and has over 35 films to his credit. His recent scores include "Harvard Man", "Scout's Honor", "Vulgar", the Sundance Film Festival drama "Lift", "Coney Island Baby", the Student Academy & Emmy Award® winning short film, "A Letter from the Western Front", and most recently, "Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher", for which he recorded with and conducted the 110 piece Czech Philharmonic & Choir.

Ryan was honored by Academy Award® winning composer Elmer Bernstein with the "Elmer Bernstein Scoring Award" at the Woodstock Film Festival for his score for the short film "Cadaverous". His score for "Shadowplay" (which won the Student Academy Award® & Emmy Award® for Best Animation in 2002) won him the prestigious Clive Davis Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music. Ryan also composed the musical identities for A&E's Biography Magazine and History Channel Magazine, and was music producer for the Saturday Night Live Studios theatrical logo which can be seen before all SNL films.

Born in Toronto, Canada, Ryan studied at the Berklee College of Music and the Eastman School of Music.

To learn more about Ryan, visit http://www.ryanshore.com

DAN BLANK - Voice Actor and Gag man

Dan Blank is a recent graduate from New York University's animation program. While in school, he provided the voices to many of the celebrities on all four seasons of MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch, from Kelsey Grammer to Hugh Hefner to Steven Spielberg. Dan studied animation alongside Alex Woo, and his stop-motion film "Shadowplay" went on to win both a Student Academy Award and Student Emmy Award. He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he is a visual effects artist on the upcoming "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow". Aside from voice-over acting and animation, Dan's life long dream is to retire and live out his days as the butler at Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.

To learn more about Dan and his film "Shadowplay", visit http://www.danmation.com