Instructors
Donald Gremillion II
Art and Animation Instructor
Donald Gremillion II is a 3D Artist who has been working professionally in the field since 2009.
Donald was born in Lafayette, Louisiana and earned his BFA from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2009. Throughout his career, he has worked on several games, virtual reality applications, music videos, industrial animations, and feature films, including Secretariat and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Donald has strived to continue improving his artistic skills and knowledge throughout his personal and professional life.
Donald hopes to continue to improve his own skills, as well as help others with their own creative endeavors.
Scott Lissard
VFX Instructor
A native of Lafayette, Scott Lissard graduated from The Institute of Audio and Video Engineering in Hollywood, CA in 1992.
He began his career as an audio recording engineer and worked on a variety of recording projects like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cartoon voice overs and fifty-piece orchestras for network television shows. At RAVE Video Production Facilities in Burbank, California, he gained experience as a video engineer, editor, and 3d animator. There he edited the first 3d animation tutorial videos for Lightwave 3d, one of the first commercially available 3d animation software packages.
Since moving back to Louisiana, he has held roles like Senior Avid Editor for the local ABC network station and Video Director for the Cajundome, while also freelancing as a 3d animator and videographer.
In 2008, he worked for Bullet Films/Activity Entertainment in Lafayette, where he was a VFX Artist and Animator on several films for the SYFY channel.
Scott joined Pixel Magic in 2010 and worked on blockbuster films like, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Men in Black, and Beautiful Creatures.
He is excited to join AIE and share his experience with the new generation of artists.
Drew Funderburk
Game Programming Instructor
Drew Funderburk is a multi-year programmer with a deep love of game systems, design, and audio. He has many years of coding and scripting under his belt with languages from C++ and C# to Python, Java, and even JavaScript.
Drew is an AIE graduate himself in the field of game programming and has since gone on to work in the Virtual Reality sector before returning to AIE to teach. He is experienced in Unreal Engine and Unity, and even a few custom engines have made their way into his repertoire
Having spent a good portion of his life overseas, Drew brings a multinational, broad worldview to life. He strives to see the bigger picture in the lives of those around him, and to show it to others.
A native of Lafayette, Scott Lissard graduated from The Institute of Audio and Video Engineering in Hollywood, CA in 1992.
He began his career as an audio recording engineer and worked on a variety of recording projects like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cartoon voice overs and fifty-piece orchestras for network television shows. At RAVE Video Production Facilities in Burbank, California, he gained experience as a video engineer, editor, and 3d animator. There he edited the first 3d animation tutorial videos for Lightwave 3d, one of the first commercially available 3d animation software packages.
Since moving back to Louisiana, he has held roles like Senior Avid Editor for the local ABC network station and Video Director for the Cajundome, while also freelancing as a 3d animator and videographer.
In 2008, he worked for Bullet Films/Activity Entertainment in Lafayette, where he was a VFX Artist and Animator on several films for the SYFY channel.
Scott joined Pixel Magic in 2010 and worked on blockbuster films like, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Men in Black, and Beautiful Creatures.
He is excited to join AIE and share his experience with the new generation of artists.