Heath Hanlin has been an animator and professor of animation for more than 20 years. His former students work at all the big animation production houses: Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, Sony, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and many smaller companies all over the US. His independent animations have screened at film festivals all over the world as well as on American and European television. He is a voting member of ASIFA-Hollywood, the largest professional organization for animators in the world.