Nathaniel Gandt

Nathaniel Gandt (March 21, 1981) is an American animator and illustrator. He graduated from North Tonawanda High School in 1999. He attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh for Media Arts and animation Graduating in 2004.

Work

Since graduation he has worked on several projects first of which was during employment with Kensington Falls Animation Studio()animating a character voiced by David Lander in a short cartoon for kids teaching them about living with MS(Multiple Sclerosis)as well as working on animations for the Pittsburgh Pirates scoreboard.

He has also assisted in writing and creating character designs for a new animated series call "the hill-williams" though the show was never produced. He took this experience to develop his own show called "Bert" which is now a series on Internet videos.

One of his videos he created for Stephen Colbert's "Green Screen Challenge" was selected to be used in a montage of over hundreds of videos created.

He has also created several graphic novels his own "Ghost Commander" and also working with Writer Wayne Sheline creating "Haikuman" and currently in production "Alice in Suburbia".

He is also Maintaining his personal blog dedicated to Hockey art.

Awards

1997 - won National art competition to design a medal commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Irish Potato Famine

2004 - Outstanding work and dedication in creating "Timmy's Journey to Understanding MS" given by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
 
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