Ryan is a student character setup artist based in Sunnyvale California. He attended American River college in 2003 studying as a generalist in different 3D packages. He came to Cogswell College in mid 2005 and has since shifted his focus of study to rigging. With no character TD track available at Cogswell, Ryan had to become a very motivated self-learner. After Graduation in spring of 2009 he hopes to use the character setup skills and production pipeline knowledge learned on Project X to allow himself to travel while still maintaining full time employment abroad. When not working towards his goal of becoming a character setup artist, Ryan enjoys to draw, read books, play video games, watch movies, fish, hike, camp and anything else that gets him out of his chair for a few hours. He is a very laid back person that enjoys any and all music so long as it's not country, and even then there are some exceptions.