Instructors & Mentors

Instructors & Mentors

Edd Dawson-Taylor


  • CG Supervisor, Film, TV, Interactive
  • DD, MPC, ILM
  • Unreal Authorized Instructor
  • Co-Founder CG Pro
  • LinkedIn

Scott Rosekrans


  • CG Supervisor, Film, TV, Interactive
  • Head of Realtime - Zoic Studios
  • Unreal Authorized Instructor
  • Epic Fellow

Jacqueline Cooper


  • Compositing Veteran / Lead, Film, TV
  • DD, ILM, MPC
  • Co-Founder CG Pro
  • Epic Fellow

Dallas Drapeau


  • Senior CG Artist, Film, TV
  • Narwhal Studios(Formerly Happy Mushroom)
  • The Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi
  • LinkedIn

Franco Vilanova


  • Senior CG Artist
  • Film, TV
  • Epic Fellowship Instructor / Mentor

Daniel Langhjelm


  • Senior Lighter Bron Digital
  • Epic Fellowship Mentor
  • Instructor at VFS and Emily Carr

Eric "Wolfie" Wolford


  • Director of Photography
  • Senior Instructor
  • Epic Fellow

James Blevins


  • Senior VP Producer
  • Co-Founder of Mesh
  • Post Prod Supervisor on The Mandalorian

Jeremy Brooks


  • Senior VP Producer
  • Riot:Arcane, Disguise

Josh Hayes


  • Story Industry Veteran
  • Rango, Lone Ranger
  • 5000 Commercials
  • 50 Features
  • Flamingo Enthusiast

John Brennan


  •  VES award winner for The Jungle Book
  • Virtual Production and VR pioneer
  • Instructor at USC
  • Lion King, Jungle Book, Ready Player One
  • DD, Magnopus

Samuel Maniscalco


  • VP Lighting Supervisor
  • Virtual Production Lighting pioneer
  • Lion King, 
  • Dreamworks, DD, MPC, Technicolor, Animal Logic, Weta

Gabriel Paiva Harwat


  • Senior CG Artist, Film, TV
  • Epic Fellowship Instructor / Mentor / Developer

Bennett Bellott


  • Senior Games Artist
  • Senior Instructor
  • Epic Fellow

Nick Jushchyshyn


  • Digital Domain
  • Professor @ Drexel University