Our Instructors

Anthony Sims primarily works as an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at Rasmussen College, he has accrued over a decade of teaching and course authoring within the realms of traditional art and animation, graphic design, 3D content creation, as well as dabbling in website creation and interactive design.

Anthony has his MFA in Visual Effects and Animation from The Academy of Art in San Francisco, which features a specialization in 3D Modeling, as well as his BFA in Media Arts and Animation from AI Tampa, as well as certifications in Graphic Design and Computer Art. Anthony is skilled in the traditional arts of painting, drawing, and sculpture, as well as the digital arts of digital illustration, 3D art and animation, video editing, motion graphics and animation.

Tony Santo has a background in illustration and is always eager to achieve new distinctions as an artist. Perhaps even more important is his commitment to provide the best visual solutions for his distinguished clients and the clearest instruction for his students.

Since 2009, he has been designing storyboards for History Channel (Vikings), WWE (Wrestlemania), Cartoon Network (Ben 10: Omniverse), Pepsi, Sports Illustrated, Indeed.com, Starz, Florida Hospital, HBO, Shriners Hospitals for Children, and others. With animatics, cinematics, video editing, illustration, and concept art, he has successfully presented campaigns for A & E Network, Microsoft, PHD, Carnival Cruise Lines, Budweiser, Henry's Hard Soda, Sun Trust, Merck, Humira, and more.

He worked as a Clean-Up Animator on Disney films like Mulan, Tarzan, Lilo and Stitch, Brother Bear, and The Emperor's New Groove. In addition, he served as Art Director on multiple iterations of the award-winning EA Sports games Madden NFL and NCAA Football.

As a Chartpak Art Ambassador, he finds reward demonstrating and presenting art supplies and techniques for brands like Higgins, Grumbacher, Koh-i-Noor, Molotov, and others.

Amanda Moldovan is a skilled animator, painter, illustrator, graphic designer, and professional weirdo. In school, she crawled her way through the jungles of the amazon to get her BFA in Animation. Being a University of Central Florida student taught her what it was like to work in a studio environment and create a short animated film. Since then she has had animation jobs around the US, started her own art business, directed a short, and worked as a painting instructor.

In her first job as an instructor she taught people of all ages how to get creative and pick up a brush. She has animated on short films, music videos, video games, YouTube series, and Television shows. She also is an avid member of Women in Animation, where she was lucky enough to be in a mentorship group under a head of animation at Pixar. Her hobbies include Dungeons and Dragons, rock and roll, and re-watching old Muppet Show episodes. Raised in the state of Florida (home of the mouse himself), she found herself inspired by the world around her and began to create. The world hasn't been the same since.