Escape Into Life

Downs went through the Animation and Training Apprentice Program at Disney Animation.

With a fanciful imagination and well-crafted technique, he had an exceptional ability to blend the antics of animation with the sophistications of fine art.

Lisel Ashlock was born in Northern California and studied Illustration at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

All animals fascinate me, but the ones that I think about constantly are the species that never existed, don’t exist anymore, or that just barely exist.