STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

BIO

Chris graduated from CSUN in Fall 2008 with an emphasis in graphic design. An animation student, turned pre-med student, turned international business student; Chris spent sometime working in Japan at what he thought was a marketing internship. He would later discover that what he did was called graphic design. Intrigued by the idea of using his passion for art to communicate ideas and create identities, he joined the graphic design program in Spring 2007.

After getting a summer crash course in graphic design, he joined VISCOM working under the mentorship of Dave Moon and Joe Bautista. He also helped run the Student Advertising Graphics Association (SAGA) as an executive officer for two semesters, an AIGA student design organization on campus.

The year he spent working at VISCOM with actual clients on real-world projects helped him grow as a person, artist, and most importantly: a professional designer. He then found himself directing 4 car commercials in a partnership venture between Ford and CSUN; a project that reignited his passion for animation. It was then he started studying motion graphics, which was a perfect marriage between his love of graphic design and animation; a medium where he found himself limited only by his own imagination.

He then got an internship working with the talented team at world-renowned motion graphics studio, Blind. He now designs and animates for different projects at Blind, where he is constantly being presented with new and exciting design challenges.

When out of the studio, Chris can be found reading Plato’s the Republic, doodling in his sketchbook, getting lost at a bookstore, volunteering for the Human Rights Campaign, watching 80’s cartoons or getting the minimum amount of sleep required. When asleep, he dreams of one day returning to CSUN with an Oscar win for best-animated short.