Einav Deri - Rising star

[Charles]

A couple years ago I had the pleasure of having an international student enroll at my school, The Animation Academy in Burbank. She was a beginning student with a lot to learn, but very motivated with a strong desire to become a professional character designer in animation.

Einav Deri has come long way. Check out the very first drawing she did in class on September 3, 2009 compared to what she was doing by June of last year...

Today, she's a graduate of the Israeli Animation College, a Character Designer at Snowball VFX Animation Studio in Tel Aviv, and will soon be moving on to new and exciting things as her career is taking off in visual development, animation, storyboarding, CGI and visual effects as well.

The latest news involving Einav is her involvement with three major animated TV commercials through Snowball. She designed the characters, some of the props and many of the background elements.

Here's one of the commercials, which has her unique design look all through it. You can also follow Einav's blog to see more of her work.

[Charles]

On top of the animated commercials based on her designs, Einav's work is also being featured on billboards throughout Israel. Here's one of them.