Erik Van Horn
Faculty
Game Art (BFA)
Erik Van Horn is an artist, animator and writer, and director of the UArts Game Art program.
He has more than 20 years’ experience in the game and animation industries. Career highlights include digital art director for Magic: The Gathering at Wizards of the Coast (a division of Hasbro) and senior training specialist at Disney Animation Studios. Feature credits include Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, Bolt, Princess and the Frog and Tangled.
When he’s not teaching, Erik is a freelance digital artist as well as a fine art painter with a long list of past exhibitions including more than 20 solo shows and work in over 100 private collections.