Ricky Mujica is a New York City born illustrator and alumni of High School of Art and Design, Parsons School of Design, and Parsons in Paris. He specializes in book cover illustration using digital media, and fine art using traditional media.
He started his illustration career in 1983 using traditional oil paints and made his first digital illustrations in 1997. He has hundreds of illustrations to his credit and has collaborated in beta testing and the creation of several user manuals for projects involving specialized, industry-specific CG software packages.
His clients include Harper Collins, Harlequin Books, Bantam, Dell, Little Brown Books, New York Times, Daily News, Ebony Magazine, US Tennis, 7UP, Scholastic Books, among others.
He has been included in the Society of Illustrators' annual shows on several occasions and has won several awards including "Best in Show" at the New York City Art Expo.
Atulit Kumar is a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center. His primary interests are computer graphics and specifically physically based rendering and animation. Over the course of his undergraduate and graduate studies, he has interned at Intel Labs and Disney Research where he researched on high performance computing and physically based character animation, respectively.
He is also a technical reviewer of 3D Printing with SketchUp, Packt Publishing.
Francis Perea is a Professional Education Professor at Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Andalucía with more than 14 years of experience. He has specialized in System Administration, Web Development, and Content Management Systems. In his spare time, he works as a freelancer and collaborates, among others, with ñ multimedia, a little design studio in Córdoba working as a system administrator and main web developer.
When not sitting in front of a computer, he can be found running or ridding his bike through the tracks and hills in Axarquía County where he lives.
Orlando Toro is a visualization artist and freelance designer based in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. His background is Computer Science with extensive experience with PC and Network Support. After discovering the world of Computer Graphics, he specialized in 2D and 3D graphic arts, which has allowed him to produce visuals for a wide range of projects, in and out his country. He also works as a photographer and session drummer. He is the CEO and Owner of Atenax Project (visual art) and bbluestudios (photography and film), 3D partner at Mytoslab in Greece, Technical Reviewer at Packt Publishing, and contributor of Semeruco Films, Unidad Metrica and Aporta Comunicación Integral in Venezuela. Outside CG, Orlando is a partner at Odontospa (dental clinic and spa) and CEO and founder of Tamborire.org (Online Musicians Academic). When he is not doing 3D, he is busy with photography, training workshops, playing drums, or just hanging out with his wife and son, which he really loves to do.