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About the Creator:
Beau Janzen
Beau Janzen brings a unique background in education and animation production to his work.
He has over twenty five years of experience in visual effects production and has served on such projects as Game of Thrones, Westworld, Stranger Things, The Walking Dead, Batman vs Superman, Man of Steel, the VFX Oscar-winning Life of Pi, and won an Emmy for his CG supervision on the show Gotham. A portfolio of his visual effects work is available here.
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In addition, Janzen has a strong background in education and math with a Master’s Degree in Instructional Systems Design, nearly ten years of classroom experience teaching mathematics, and a position as guest researcher at Berlin’s Techniche Universitaet Department of Special Research Projects in Differential Geometry and Quantum Mechanics.
He has written and animated internationally-acclaimed educational videos including Mesh, Reason for Math, Quantus, and The Shadows of Alexandria.
Janzen currently serves as Education Lead for the VFX program at the Gnomon School for VFX and Animation for Film and Games which in 2020 was ranked the #1 Visual Effects school in the world by the Rookies Awards for the fourth consecutive year
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