Mark Renaud is an animator and illustrator, using his talents in his role as Vice-President/Creative Director of Disada Productions Ltd., a thirty-year-old animation/live-action film studio. He is a graduate from the University of Western Ontario's Fine Art Department (1995) and from the Algonquin College Animation Program (1999), with Honours. He has also studied in the Illustration program at Sheridan College (1990-1991). Mark is sharing his gathered knowledge and experience with students at the Ottawa School of Art and as a faculty member of the Visual Arts program at Heritage College in Hull, Quebec. Mark's passion for animation and comic books has helped him to develop the Comic Book Illustration and Design course at the School while giving him an outlet to share that passion with the students in the Animation Certificate Program.