Liron Topaz
Liron Topaz is an award-winning Director, Supervising Animator and the Animation Department Chair at DreamWorks Animation. His 2018 animated short, Bilby, won the Jury Award at SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. Liron’s passion for animation started at an early age, and he graduated with honors from Ringling School of Art + Design in 2009. He has worked on various franchise projects, including Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Croods. He was recently a Supervising Animator for DreamWorks’ film, The Bad Guys, which came out in 2022.Â
Liron’s Credits
Bilby
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Kung Fu Panda 3
The Bad Guys
Recent Films
- Kung Fu Panda 4
- The Bad Guys
- The Croods: A New Age
- Abominable
- How to Train Your Dragon: Hidden World
- Boss Baby
- Trolls
- Kung Fu Panda 3
- How to Train your Dragon 2
- The Croods
- Kung Fu Panda 2
- Alice in Wonderland
Short Films
- To Gerard
- Bilby – Director and Writer
- This Side Up – Director
Television
- Sonic Mania Adventures
What Liron’s Students are Saying
Takes His Time to Explain
Incredible mentor. Liron is very helpful and he always goes more in depth for any question or feedback. We can always ask anything at any time and he always got a clear, precise and technical answer. He also takes his time to explain and make sure that we get everything right. Thank you for that first course!
Liron Was Incredible
Liron was incredible. He pushed me to do something I felt I could not do because he believed in me. We worked together through everything and I feel so accomplished.
Great at Giving You Ideas on Ways to Plus Animation
Liron has given us a lot of technical knowledge that helps those times when you feel like you are fighting with Maya. This saves a lot of time and helps you stay focused on the already difficult task at hand, animation. Liron is also great at giving you ideas on ways you can plus your animation, especially when it comes to creature/animal behaviors.
He Explains a Lot of Tips That Make Animating Easier
I really like that he does a lot of demos with Maya for our Q&A sessions. It’s always helpful to see how mentors animate. Also, he explains a lot of technical tips that make our animation process so much easier.
Very Thorough, and Gave Us Great Tips
He [Liron] was very thorough, and gave us great tips when we came across it in lectures. His video critiques are also detailed, and makes sure to get to everything. He also draws over our frames to make it easier for us to visualize the motion.
Really Takes the Time to Make Sure You Understand
Awesome mentor! Really takes the time out of his day to make sure you understand everything. Critiques are extremely helpful as well as /demos during class. And I really appreciated that he was available to help me outside of the scheduled class time as well. I feel so much more confident in animating creatures. Thank you!
I Like and Appreciate His Honesty
I really really like Liron’s approach on the course. He clearly has a structure of all the things he wants to discuss in each Q&A which makes me look forward to learning new things. Also all the tips, tricks and advice he gave us on how to set up the rigs / adjust them to our needs and basically pre-plan and organize our scene before we start animating, I found extremely helpful. I also like and appreciate his honesty, if something doesn’t look or feel good,he tells it straight.
Awesome, Informative, and Interesting
Liron’s Q&As are awesome, informative and interesting. He is very open and willing to answer all our questions and shares his knowledge and gives great workflow tips. His notes on assignments are very detailed and easy to understand and how to address them. Overall I’m very happy with my mentor. Thank you.
Takes His Time to Explain
Incredible mentor. Liron is very helpful and he always goes more in depth for any question or feedback. We can always ask anything at any time and he always got a clear, precise and technical answer. He also takes his time to explain and make sure that we get everything right. Thank you for that first course!
Liron Was Incredible
Liron was incredible. He pushed me to do something I felt I could not do because he believed in me. We worked together through everything and I feel so accomplished.
Great at Giving You Ideas on Ways to Plus Animation
Liron has given us a lot of technical knowledge that helps those times when you feel like you are fighting with Maya. This saves a lot of time and helps you stay focused on the already difficult task at hand, animation. Liron is also great at giving you ideas on ways you can plus your animation, especially when it comes to creature/animal behaviors.
He Explains a Lot of Tips That Make Animating Easier
I really like that he does a lot of demos with Maya for our Q&A sessions. It’s always helpful to see how mentors animate. Also, he explains a lot of technical tips that make our animation process so much easier.
Very Thorough, and Gave Us Great Tips
He [Liron] was very thorough, and gave us great tips when we came across it in lectures. His video critiques are also detailed, and makes sure to get to everything. He also draws over our frames to make it easier for us to visualize the motion.
Really Takes the Time to Make Sure You Understand
Awesome mentor! Really takes the time out of his day to make sure you understand everything. Critiques are extremely helpful as well as /demos during class. And I really appreciated that he was available to help me outside of the scheduled class time as well. I feel so much more confident in animating creatures. Thank you!
I Like and Appreciate His Honesty
I really really like Liron’s approach on the course. He clearly has a structure of all the things he wants to discuss in each Q&A which makes me look forward to learning new things. Also all the tips, tricks and advice he gave us on how to set up the rigs / adjust them to our needs and basically pre-plan and organize our scene before we start animating, I found extremely helpful. I also like and appreciate his honesty, if something doesn’t look or feel good,he tells it straight.
Awesome, Informative, and Interesting
Liron’s Q&As are awesome, informative and interesting. He is very open and willing to answer all our questions and shares his knowledge and gives great workflow tips. His notes on assignments are very detailed and easy to understand and how to address them. Overall I’m very happy with my mentor. Thank you.
Courses Taught By Liron
Courses may vary from term to term.