Over two decades in feature animation have exposed Brian P Dean to a rich variety of studios, workflows, and approaches to creating animated content. His journey began at Blue Sky Studios on "Robots," where he took his first steps into lighting as a technical assistant. By his second film, "Ice Age: The Meltdown," he had progressed so rapidly that as a junior lighter, he was entrusted with lighting entire sequences independently - a responsibility rarely given to someone at that level.

His career has taken him across North America, from Blue Sky in New York to Sony Pictures Imageworks in Vancouver, where he contributed to Academy Award-winning "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" and Academy Award-nominated "Over the Moon."

When Unreal Engine released their "A Boy and His Kite" short in 2015, Brian saw it as a glimpse into animation's future - a perspective that many in the industry weren't yet ready to embrace. This insight led him to actively pursue real-time rendering technologies, eventually inspiring him to take a leap into this emerging workflow at Bron Digital, where he worked using the real-time rendering technology of Unreal on an animated series.

Today, with the current state of Hollywood causing widespread unemployment, Brian is focusing on forging a new path as an independent story teller. Having gone the route of live action and then animating in Unreal, Brian is now using AI tools to try to bring his stories, worlds and characters to life.