Blake Derksen is a stop motion animator and fabricator. From a young age he has enjoyed experimenting in many art forms from drawing to origami. After discovering stop motion, he has enjoyed bringing a variety of media to life with the animation technique. At Calarts Blake refined and expanded his work and grew as an artist in the Experimental Animation Program, producing four animated shorts and many smaller projects. Now Blake works in the industry as a full-time stop motion animator where he has worked on a variety of projects ranging from Alien X-mas to Robot Chicken, and Crossing Swords.