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WOMEN IN ANIMATION

Love Cabrera Asis
Love Asis has recently earned a degree in Masteral Arts in Fine
Arts and Design in Philippine Women’s University. Her thesis
research on Original Content Animated Films caught her interest
to do more research on animation for both local and international
paper presentation under the faculty development grant of De La
Salle College of Saint Benilde and as a member of Society for
Animation Studies. After receiving her Bachelor Degree in Fine
Arts at the University of Santo Tomas, she had difficulty finding
a job in Advertising Arts due to limited knowledge in computer
graphics; this later brought her to 3D animation by accident.
Since then she was able to participate in different local and
international full length such as Hoodwinked!, Dayo: Sa Mundo
ng Elementalia, Urduja and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse series to
name a few. Alongside she has been doing visual effects for film,
TV series, TV commercials, and virtual set asset. She is currently
employed as Training and Renderfarm coordinator for Toast
and Brew Game and Animation studio while actively teaching
animation, multimedia, visual effects, fine art and masteral arts.

Katharina Petsche
Katharina Petsche is an animator, illustrator, 3D artist and director
from Austria. Before studying Media and Information Design
she achieved a degree in Molecular Biology. Katharina Petsche
likes to combine both fields by creating scientific animation. She
was granted with several awards and her movies were shown at
various festivals across the globe. After Hamburg, Valencia, and
Los Angeles, Katharina Petsche is now based in Vienna.

Grace Dimaranan
Grace Dimaranan is an animation & design instructor, graphics
designer, creative director, producer, and animator for 25 years
now. She has been the board director of the Animation Council
of the Philippines since year 2000. Her credentials include: CEO/
Managing Director of TOP PEG Animation & Creative Studios
Inc., School Director at TOP PEG Institute of Animation & Design
at Las Pinas city, CEO of a new start up company for Manga &
anime training & Services: TOP PEG - Anime School & production
services, Consultant for curriculum development at Tesda, Deped
& Ched, member of Game Development Association of the
Philippines (GDAP), and speaker and lecturer for art, animation,
design and production management. She is an advocate for
original content creation.
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