A Proud Certified Canadian Institution —
Setting the Standard in Online Animation Training.
Meet our Team.
Garth Drake
Garth Drake is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of Rocket Sky. With over 20 years as a top animation instructor and 26 years working with leading North American studios, he built Rocket Sky’s curriculum around a classical 3D animation approach. The school’s ‘Simulated Production’ platform trains students with real-world skills and professional standards.
Saulo Satoshi Botome
Saulo is an extremely skilled character animator and technical artist. He has created student tutorials on lighting and rendering and serves as the school’s go-to expert in that area. He now works as a character animator at Animaking in Brazil.
Karl Bauer
For over a decade, Karl Bauer has been a leading character modeler, rigging artist, and instructor at Rocket Sky. He designed, modeled, and rigged the school’s Foundation-to-Feature quality characters and now works as a Lead Animator at DHX Media in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Greg Brown
Greg Brown has quickly built a strong career as a gaming animator. With multiple released titles already to his credit, Greg has established himself as a skilled and versatile artist in the competitive world of video games.
JASON RYAN
MIKE KOIZUMI
FELIX SPUTNIK
SPECIAL THANKS
Jason is a world-class animator and a master of both 3D and classical animation. Thanks for the tutorial on how to draw stick-people, an amazing video on thumbnailing and how it's done by a true master.
Mike is an incredible artist and a truly gifted teacher. His drawing tutorials are amazing and we're so happy to have access to his techniques for drawing the human figure.
Felix Sputnik was born in Germany, moved to London in 1990, draws 24 frames every second of the day and keeps chickens and bees. He has worked for most major studios in London and some overseas and is the proud owner of a Moebius award, two Promax world class awards, a grand Prix from the Holland Animation festival and a BAA diploma and was once briefly up for a BAFTA. His tutorials are
spectacular and benefit our students immensely.