Pedram Goshtasbpour

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Pedram Goshtasbpour-Parsi (Born in Tehran-Iran, August 1 1975) is a Canadian director/animator who has worked at Sony Imageworks as animator on such productions as Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2 and The ChubbChubbs!. In the late 1990s, he worked at Nelvana as designer on such productions as Ned's Newt, Birdz, Dumb Bunnies as well as at Amberwood Entertainment as storyboard supervisor on Hoze Hounds series. At Production Pascal Blais Pedram was a commercial animator/director for clients such as Del Monte, Oscar Mayer, Hydro-Québec, Wonder Bread and Gansito; and at IMAX Sandde Animation he was a software consultant as well as senior animator on "Cyber World".

Anthony Lamolinara, the animation director on both Spider-Man feature films, first recruited Pedram from Sheridan College among a host of young animators from that institution to join him at Square USA for pre-production CG animation on Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. In 2005 Pedram returned to Nelvana as senior animator on the Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends series as well as The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie CG Feature.

Most recently, Pedram has served as animation director on such projects as Paramount's G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom feature, 16 episodes of Jetix/Disney's Get Ed (Season 1) and 10 episodes of Jetix/Coneybeare/Disney's Monster Warriors (Season 1) series; and as visual effects supervisor on MTV's Wonder Showzen series.

He is the founder of Ministry of Motion -MoM Studio in Toronto, Canada.

[edit] External link

• Pedram Goshtasbpour at the Internet Movie Database
• Ministry of Motion - MoM Studio (An Eqleqt Inc. Company - official web site