Greg Orduyan

Greg is a founder of Digital Monkey School, and is serving as a director of Visual and Computer Arts department. He is teaching most of game development glasses.

Greg began his work in game industry back in 1995 and has been working with 3D technology since 1991. He has served for companies such as Sony, developing "Playstation 2 Network Adaptor Start-Up Disc," the online services and content for the PS2 and game "Frequency." He spent six years at Konami developing games such as "Frogger The Great Quest" PS2, "Silent Hill 2" PS2, "ESPN Baseball Tonight" DC, "CastleVania (Resurrection)" DC, the games for PC Playstation and N64 "BOTTOM OF THE 9 TH" 98 and 99, as well as Coin-op games.

Greg's formal education is in Fine Art and Stop Motion 3D Animation. Throughout his career he's worked at variety of different companies including Animation Studios, TV stations, Game Development Studios, and FX and CG Production Studios.

Greg has been Faculty at the Academy of Arts University since 2003, teaching such courses as Art direction for Video Games, History of Video Games, Introduction to Video Game Development, Art for Video Games, Level Design and Video Games Prototyping.

Ola Konnonova

Ola is a creative director of Digital Monkey School and is teaching 3d and animation intro, digital drawing, digital photo editing, collage and 2D animation. Ola’s background is in visual art and graphic design.

She studied Set Design at the Academy of Theater Arts in St. Petersburg in Russia, Graphic Design at the College of Art in Moscow and afterwards moved to Canada, where she received a BFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University in Montreal. Ola’s work experience spans from being a set design artist at the animation studio, doing editorial illustrations and layouts for magazines, and working as a graphic designer the advertising agency. She has been teaching art to kids for many years.

Kurt

Kurt has graduated Academy of Art University in San Francisco with Major in Video Games. Kurt has been working as an environment architect at Cryptic Studios. At Digital Monkey School he is teaching advanced portfolio classes for game developers with Unity3d and UDK. His professional website is KeenLevelDesign.com.

Brina

Brina has graduated Academy of Art University in San Francisco with Major in Animation. At Digital Monkey School she is teaching advanced portfolio animation classes with Maya. Brina’s demo reel is at brinanime.com.