Chaz Bottoms is a director, animator, story artist and founder of CBA Studios. Chaz has collaborated and produced content for Disney, Springhill, Lil Nas X, Adult Swim, Steve Harvey Global, John Legend, Sesame Street, TBS, Sony Music, and others! He has worked at Nickelodeon Animation, Cartoon Network, Netflix, and Apple TV+. In 2023 he was named Forbes 30 Under 30 Hollywood & Entertainment for his studio's work. Chaz’s next short film, BATTU: An Animated Musical is coming soon.

My journey in animation started as a stop motion artist, focusing mainly on artistic projects working with paper cut outs and puppets. After a slow transition to the digital medium and years of migrating between animation softwares as a hobbyist I've finally made the leap to Toon Boom. That marked the beginning of my professional career and I'm now working internationally as a freelancer, both as a rigger and character animator for TV serieses. I try, whenever possible, to keep producing personal projects, to keep some sanity going in a very demanding industry.

El Dettmann is a story artist and illustrator currently based in Los Angeles. They graduated in 2020 with a BFA in Film & Animation from Rochester Institute of Technology, and have been working in the animation industry since. El was drawn to storyboarding as a perfect medium between their two passions, art and writing. They love cute, creepy, fantastical stories with a lot of heart at the center. In their free time, they like drawing their webcomic PROVIL, playing music, and researching the paranormal.