Paul accepted a position as a Visual Development Artist at Dreamworks in San Francisco. Formerly, he had been working as a Senior Concept Artist for Namco Bandai Game, developing Afro Samurai in collaboration with Samuel L. Jackson's television show, for next season on the Spike TV channel.

Shane's scratchboard "Vanishing Point" (Big Horn Sheep) was the 1st Place Winner at the Endangered Species: Flora and Fauna in Peril art competition and exhibition sponsored by the Wilding Art Museum, Los Olivos, CA. The cash award for this was $10,000.

Designing anything is a very personal process that's made very impersonal by being intended for as many people as possible; it's the nature of the beast. It's like having forty thousand people in the shower with you, except the shower is a website and you're fully dressed. You let them stare and hope they don't laugh.

"Don't be afraid to change your thought pattern about art, and always do something new that's uncomfortable. One learns the most when they are in unfamiliar territory."

Christopher Van Nguyen can be best described by the following words: thoughtful, analytical, imaginative, dedicated, intuitive, a “quick study”, and - most of all - hard-working.