Adrien Van Viersen

Adrien van Viersen began his illustration career in 1991 with the self-published Time City comic book series, which attracted national attention. In 1993, Adrien began designing and animating children's interactive CD-ROMs before moving on to Studio B Productions in Vancouver in 1995, where he designed for Disney, Universal, Warner, and DIC. His work can be seen Saturday mornings on shows like The Mighty Ducks, Ace Ventura, The Savage Dragon, and Timone and Pumba. Meanwhile, he completed work on the Technopolis comic book series (a new updated Time City) published by Caliber Comics. His efforts garnered him a Russ Manning Award nomination for Best New Talent in the comic book industry. In 1998, along with Clyde Klotz (X-Files), he began work designing Mainframe Entertainment's War Planets for 26 episodes. After seven years in the animation field, the lure of live action film hearkened. Adrien's career as a storyboard artist began with Romeo Must Die, and continued with Dreamcatcher, X-men2, I-Robot, I-Spy, and Paycheck among others. The completion of the short film Code, produced by Brenda Painter, marked Adrien's debut as a writer, director, and production designer. In 2001, he received a Leo Award nomination for Best Production design. The film airs regularly on Space and CBC. The completion of the short film The Agent marks his third foray into the film world, as director and production designer. His latest films, Tit for Tat and Pig Tale played the world festival circuit.