Over two decades in feature animation have exposed Brian P Dean to a rich variety of studios, workflows, and approaches to creating animated content. His journey began at Blue Sky Studios on "Robots," where he took his first steps into lighting as a technical assistant. By his second film, "Ice Age: The Meltdown," he had progressed so rapidly that as a junior lighter, he was entrusted with lighting entire sequences independently - a responsibility rarely given to someone at that level.

His career has taken him across North America, from Blue Sky in New York to Sony Pictures Imageworks in Vancouver, where he contributed to Academy Award-winning "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" and Academy Award-nominated "Over the Moon."

When Unreal Engine released their "A Boy and His Kite" short in 2015, Brian saw it as a glimpse into animation's future - a perspective that many in the industry weren't yet ready to embrace. This insight led him to actively pursue real-time rendering technologies, eventually inspiring him to take a leap into this emerging workflow at Bron Digital, where he worked using the real-time rendering technology of Unreal on an animated series.

Today, Brian is the founder of Amulet Studios, where he's developing original animated content that leverages the latest in real-time rendering technology. His current project, "Star Streamers," is a clever sci-fi series that explores a future where social media engagement has become the universal currency of worth. The show follows the crew of the U.S.F Hashtag on their mission to boost Earth's galactic social media presence through viral content creation.