Chris Szetela is a Detroit based commercial artist of 22 years. As a graduate of Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, he was classically trained and earned a BFA in Illustration in 1985. Specializing in mechanical illustration, Chris’s clients list includes 3M, Nestle, Jolly Rancher, Keebler, Ford, Nickelodeon, Anheuser-Busch and Tropicana Casinos and the Detroit Science Center.

Chris Hartley is a UK-based designer covering design for print, web design, 3D illustration and a little animation. The clients he’s worked with over his 32-year career have included Procter & Gamble, Barclays Bank, House of Fraser and British Gas.

Bert Smets is CEO and Creative Manager at Bert Smets Productions, the production company of Hopla, based in Ostend, Belgium. They focus on children’s edutainment (education and entertainment) and children’s merchandising. Being active in the worldwide children’s market since 1988, Bert Smets worked as an illustrator for numerous European children’s magazines and publishers. Since Bert created his character Hopla, this is the only thing he is working on since then, both creatively and business wise. His animation series Hopla can now be watched in more than 35 countries (US, Canada, Japan, UK, France….).