Working Instructors

Michael grew up across different locations in the USA. Moving from coast to coast, he relied on television, videogames, and films to fill his time. Eventually settling with his family in Denver Colorado, Michael fell in love with CAD during high school in between hitting the slopes. Working on Solidworks models of robots and machines quickly turned into Maya sets and characters during college at the University of Colorado Denver animation program, DAC. Michael began his professional journey as a lighting and compositing artist contributing to various films, commercials, and television shows at Los Angeles Studios such as ZOIC, Luma, CoSA and Buck, eventually settling into NICK in 2016 where he has been ever since. He recently proposed to his fiancé Jeanel on a beautiful beach in her home country of the Philippines, and he his constantly covered in dog hair from his faithful Shiba Inu dog, Oso.

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