Mark Stanger

Character animation

Mark Stanger is an award-winning character and creature animator with 20 years industry experience. Since 2009, Mark has worked at  Wētā FX as an animator on such ground-breaking productions as Avatar, Tintin, The Avengers, The Hobbit trilogy, The Planet of the Apes films and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Prior to that Mark had extensive experience as an animator and animation supervisor on Emmy, VES and Annie award-winning animated television programs.

After completing a degree in Visual Arts with honours in drawing and painting at the University of Victoria in Canada, Mark went on to earn diplomas in both classical and computer animation from Sheridan College. While working on cutting edge visual effects films, Mark continues to ground his practice in drawing and performance recently studying for a summer at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy and also running the figure drawing sessions at the Wellington Art Club in Miramar.