Creative Strategist, Career Consultant, and prime-time television EMMY® winning Animator, Allyssa A Lewis, is most noted for her animation on over 75 episodes and promos of FX's series "Archer". She has also created content for NBC's "30 Rock", Discovery Channel, Mtv, i am OTHER, Animation Domination, Apple, ComicCon San Diego, Georgia Public Broadcasting (PBS), and Captain Planet's Planeteer Movement.

Lewis founded Georgia's first and largest animation resource and staffing agency, My Animation Life (MAL). The team works to find creative strategies and solutions for both studios and independents in the animation industry. Using her education in animation from Savannah College of Art Design and business from Harvard University Online, Lewis advances emerging artists in film and digital media in creative employment, business development, and animation production and pitching.

In addition, she is on the Board of Directors for ASIFA South, one of the largest international animation societies in the southeastern United States, and a judge for The EMMY® Awards. Her previous employment includes recruiting in the Art & Story division for twelve animated feature films for Netflix Animation. Currently, she is also animating her personal comical short series "Life as Molly".

Jeremy Schaefer is a filmmaker and animator who is currently working at Dreamworks Animation. Growing up in Bowling Green, Kentucky, he discovered his passion for art and filmmaking while creating films with his older brother. While attending Ringling College of Art & Design, he interned at Walt Disney Animation Studios and created his animated thesis film, THE BOX ASSASSIN. Jeremy now resides in Los Angeles, continuing to do what he loves; creating and making films for audiences all around the world.

Vinod Krishnan is currently a production technical director at Disney Television Animation. Previously, he has been involved with various other animation and VFX houses such as Sony Pictures Animation, Netflix Animation, Ingenuity VFX and more. Vinod's expertise ranges from working in visual development to post production. He is also heavily involved in the community through organizations like ASIFA SOUTH, ACM SIGGRAPH and works with Wacom Technologies as an artist representative, traveling with a team to many trade shows and conferences such as San Diego Comic Con, Adobe Max, LightBox Expo and more. Besides working in entertainment, Vinod enjoys playing video games, watching and playing sports, gouging all kinds of foods and spending time in nature.

Originally from Singapore, Clarisse Chua studied at Tama Art University in Tokyo and graduated from California Institute of the Arts. She developed her skills as an artist while interning at Moving Colour Studios and Cartoon Network while in school. She currently works as a story artist for feature films at Skydance Animation Studios.

Outside of work, Clarisse also writes and directs her own animated films. Her short films have been presented at international film festivals, a few being Bucheon International Animation Film Festival, Animation Block Party, BFI Future Film Festival, National Film Festival for Talented Youth and more.

Tom was originally born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, however grew up south of London in the United Kingdom. It is there that he got his bachelor's degree in Animation Production back in 2021 and has since been working as a stop-motion animator at Laika Studios. Laika is an Oregon based stop-motion animation studio specializing in feature films, commercial content for all media, music videos, and short films. The studio is best known for its stop-motion feature films Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings and Missing Link. Tom is passionate about film, performance and bringing engaging characters to life across all mediums, and so is delighted to be part of the NFFTY Animation Jury for 2023.

Lachlan Pendragon is a writer, director, animator from Brisbane, Australia. He is a Student Academy Award winner and Oscar nominated filmmaker for his stop motion animated short film, "An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It". Lachlan created the short through a Doctor of Visual Arts program at Griffith Film School in Brisbane.