7. Team• EricT. Elder – Producer /Director
EricT. Elder is a Los Angeles based animation and game producer
with over 20 years industry experience. He began his studio
career at MTV Animation in NewYork on the Beavis and Butt-
Head feature. He then moved to California where he worked as a
key animator at Film Roman on King of the Hill and the
Simpsons. He also worked with the Art Institutes first in
Philadelphia and then in Los Angeles for a span of over 16 years
training young people in the arts of animation and game
production.
• Rafael “Hayz” Cruz – Character Design, Storyboards,
Animation
“Hayz” is a Character Designer, Storyboard Artist,Writer and
Educator based in Los Angeles. His early work included the
ground breaking full page comic strip ‘AView from the
Underground” that was featured in the Source magazine. He
went on to do commercial work for clients Nike, Loud Records
etc. He then moved to California where he worked on the
shows King of the Hill and Downtowners for Film Roman. He
has also trained hundreds of students in the arts of traditional
2D animation, 3D animation, storyboards and character
design.
8. TeamMilton Davis – Creator, Producer/Writer
Milton Davis is a speculative fiction writer and owner of
MVmedia, LLC, a micro publishing company specializing
in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Sword and Soul.
MVmedia’s mission is to provide speculative fiction books
that represent people of color in a positive manner.
Milton is the author of Changa’s Safari Volumes One,Two
andThree. His most recent releases are Woman of the
Woods and Amber and the Hidden City. He is co-editor of
four anthologies; Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology and
Griot: Sisters of the Spear, with Charles R. Saunders; The Ki
Khanga Anthology with Balogun Ojetade and the
Steamfunk! Anthology, also with Balogun Ojetade. Milton
Davis and Balogun Ojetade recently received the Best
Screenplay Award for 2014 from the Urban Action
Showcase for their African martial arts script, Ngolo. His
current projects include The City, a cyberfunk anthology,
Dark Universe, a space opera anthology based on a
galactic empire ruled by people of African American
descent, and From Here toTimbuktu, a steamfunk novel.
Milton resides in Metro Atlanta with his wife
Vickie and his children Brandon and Alana.
9. Team
• Adriana M. Galvez- Background Design & Color Stylist
Adriana M. Galvez was trained as a painter & illustrator at
Art Center College of Design. She got her break in animation
and has been working as a professional in the animation
industry for children’s and adult prime timeTV shows for
over twenty years. Studios she has worked for include;
Nickelodeon, Klasky-Csupo, Film Roman, Disney and
Twentieth Century FoxTelevision most notably for shows
such asThe Simpsons, Rocko’s Modern Life and King of the
Hill. Adriana is also a photographer & enjoys painting plein
air andTiki art. Adriana’s Tiki paintings have been published
inTiki Magazine and theTiki Art Now! Book. Her paintings
and photography have been displayed in art galleries in
Northern California, Ohio and in various art exhibits in the
Los Angeles area.
• Roger Andrews – Design, Logos, Key Poses
Roger Andrews is an experienced, freelance artist
specializing in conceptual illustration with an expertise in
character/creature creation. Since leaving The Butera
School of Art in 1992, he's used his training in traditional
and digital illustration techniques to produce a prolific
amount artwork for some of your favorite cultural icons.
He has lent his versatile, energetic style of art to various
licensed properties. Some of his clients include a host of
well-known companies such as Hasbro, LucasFilm,
Disney, Mattel and Rovio.