About the artist:

Upon receiving a BFA in Illustration & Art Education from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Tony Cipriano went directly to work at Walt Disney Feature Animation Studios, where he worked as an animator and sculptor for 7 years. Some of his screen credits include:

Beauty and the Beast

Aladdin

Pocahontas

Hunchback of Notre Dame

Tarzan

Mulan

Brother Bear

as well as a few Roger Rabbit and Mickey Mouse short subjects.

He left Disney in 1997 to pursue a freelance sculpture career. He has spent the last 20 years creating commercial sculpture & prototypes for several industries such as toys, giftware, wax museums, theme parks, and animation. He has also manufactured my own line of licensed collectible figurines under his own company, Cipriano Studios.

He has recently made the transition from traditional materials such as clay and wax...into the digital modeling world. He primarily creates his models in Zbrush now and is currently learning the Maya interface. In addition to his freelance work, he is currently teaching production modeling and portfolio preparation at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida.