Blake Derksen is a stop motion animator, fabricator, and 3D Designer. From a young age he has enjoyed experimenting in many art forms from drawing to origami. After discovering stop motion, he has enjoyed bringing a variety of media to life with the animation technique. At CalArts Blake refined and expanded his work and grew as an artist in the Experimental Animation Program, producing four animated shorts and many smaller projects. Blake works in the industry as a stop motion animator where he has worked on a variety of projects ranging from Alien X-mas to Robot Chicken, and Crossing Swords. When Blake is not stop motion animating, he is putting his incredible 3D Skills to work in the Foodservice space modeling projects.