3DTraining.com's Advisory Board represents prominent
animation executives who are committed to sharing their areas of expertise with
our instructors and students. The members of the 3DTi advisory board represent
significant talent and accomplishment in the animation industry.
ELI KUSLANSKY: Managing Partner
Unified Field
Eli Kuslansky is the managing partner of Unified Field which specializes in media architecture, communications, and visualization systems for museums, educational institutions, Fortune 500 corporations. He specializes in design technology, communications, informational and educational products. With more than twenty years experience in the industry, he is currently developing advanced 3D visualization systems, alternative interfaces and designing custom software applications for museums, educational institutions, Fortune 500 corporations, and financial institutions.
For the three years prior to joining Unified Field, Mr. Kuslansky was Director of Technology and Interactives at Ralph Appelbaum Associates, internationally known museum designers.Mr. Kuslansky has developed new media products and services for Sony, The National Parks Service, The Smithsonian Institution, The New York Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Pfizer, Merck, IBM, MasterCard International, Bell Atlantic Mobile, Times Mirror Corporation, The Bank of New York, Frito Lay, Inc., Ralph Appelbaum Associates, The South Street Seaport, and other internationally known architects, exhibit designers and Institutions around the world. Eli Kuslansky was a curator at the South Street Seaport Museum, and appraised nautical antiques for Sotheby’s and Christie's New York.
Mr. Kuslansky is a member of the International Interactive Communications Society, The Human Factor Society, and the New York Software Industry Association, and a former board member of Exit Art. Mr. Kuslansky is on the New Media Executives committee for the UJA Federation. He is also a board member of the Industry Applications Board for Columbia University’s Center for Advance Technology, and he is the chairman of the Art and Cultural Special Interest Group for The New York New Media Association. He is also on the advisory and development committee for online strategies for the M.I.T. Enterprise Forum.
Lucien Harriot, Visual Effects Supervisor
and President of Mechanism Digital Inc., is as comfortable on the live
action set as he is in the studio with a team of computer artists. In
1996, Lucien founded Mechanism Digital Inc., which provides computer animation
and digital effects for film, television and new media. Located in Manhattan’s
West Chelsea and employing a staff of up to 25, Mechanism prides itself
in taking the mystery out of the visual effects process while encouraging
client education and involvement in the creative process, from storyboard
to finishing.
Most recently, Mechanism Digital wrapped
production on the History Channel documentary "Last Stand of the
300," a two-hour special in which Harriot, also the firm’s
Visual Effects Supervisor, encouraged the client to shoot the entire program
on green screen (similar to the movie "300") for a hyper dreamlike
style, using 3D backgrounds. Other recent production credits include the
multi-Emmy winning productions “Rome: Engineering an Empire,"
regular effects on the HBO series “The Wire,“ visual effects
for the feature “Senka /Shadows," the opening title sequence
and movie poster design for the horror film “Zombie Honeymoon,"
75 shots for Spike Lee's feature "Bamboozled" and “Natures
Nightmares," an effects-heavy show currently in development for The
Discovery Channel.
Lucien is the past Vice Chair of NYC-ACM-SIGGRAPH and it's
Chair of Programs from 1995 to 2005, Lucien is an active member of both
the Producers Guild of America and the Visual Effects Society.
Doros is the CEO of Doros USA, Inc., a Computer Animation Company,
which merged recently with LEXICOM, LLC, an Information Technology Company,
to create the newly formed INSTANT NOODLE FACTORY Company. The company’s
objective is to achieve excellence in the designing and production of
superior animation, communications and Internet Technology by combining
many years of experience and talent.
For much of his career, Doros has worked designing and directing television
commercials using computer animation, motion graphics, special effects,
and cell animation for major Advertising Agencies including Grey Advertising,
BBDO, Griffin Bacal Inc., DDB Worldwide, Young & Rubicam, and Saatchi
& Saatchi. His clients include GTE, McDonalds, Hasbro, Milton Bradley,
Parker Brothers, Am Track, Canon, USA today, HBO, and Time Warner Cable.
In addition to television commercials and
programs, Doros has also designed and produced animation for music videos,
such as Bob Dylan’s “Joker man” amongst others. The
original animated stories, “Happy Hero” and “The Evil
Awards”, for the Cartoon Network’s “Web Premier Toons”,
were written, produced and directed by Doros’ studio.
Today, using the facilities of his newest
animation studio, INSTANT NOODLE FACTORY, he can design and execute any
animation work in the spirit and the capacity of the latest technology
for any broadcast TV and Internet needs.
