Thanks for
your support!
Founder & CEO
Aiman Akhtar, Creator of the Original Fungisaurs characters. Born in Karachi, Pakistan to mom from Mumbai, India. Immigrated to US & Graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts & Tech from the Prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. Specialized in developing stylized characters for animation, toys and game companies on projects for Nickelodeon, Disney, Blizzard, Aaron Sims Creative, Alliance Studios, Sky Castle & Stoopid Buddy Studios. Currently working in LA as Digital Design Director, and CG Supervisor, Digital Sculptor and 3D printing expert, photographer, storyteller, animator, video editor & more recently even performance artist. Will do whatever it takes to entertain, inspire & build intentional community.
Fungisaurs Contributors
Alec Enriquez
Alec is a Technical Artist/Generalist who serves as our Unreal Engine Wizard in Chief. Alec hasn't met a CG task that he doesn't rise to meet and exceed from Scene setup through Lighting, Shading and Rendering, we're very grateful to have access to his versatile toolbelt
David Finley
David's our go to Texture Art Lead for Insane Studio-Quality Realtime Materials & shaders, and is also an avid game designer who has helped us on Fungisaurs board game development! Check out his art:
Zoie Loves
Zoie lent Fungisaurs her "Zhuzh" at AWE expo & Animation Pitch Support at Nickelodeon. Zoie also inspired creation of our succulent planters as she's a dedicated and immensely talented Florist in pursuit of her Hollywood directing dreams.
Chess MacElvaine
Actor, Fabricator, Scenic Painter and Immersive Experience creator for Fungisaurs 2099 at Augmented World Expo and Two Bit Circus, Chess also inspired Fungisaurs animation for more disability representation and inclusivity.
Carrie Staller
Carrie was Fungisaurs toys Director of sales & Outreach. She led us to extraordinary success scaling to 15k toys sold in 200+ indie stores before building her own Fungi Foraging & education collective - Fork in the Path
Keeley Shoup
Keeley's belief in Fungisaurs kept us striving through tumultuous times post-pandemic, & her wit charmed all at our expo booths at AWE, Chitag and Lightbox expos. She's now co-owner & CEO of a platform for therapeutic touch specialists - Cuddlist.
Trinity Olivares Aguilar
Trinity is an incomparable storyboard artist and visual communicator. Comedy, action, heartfelt moments, they can do it all & did the most on our Fungisaurs Paradots story animatic! Olivaresaguilar.com
Brie Lentry
Brie animated our characters for Fungisaurs Arise app and latest Fungisaurs Rec Room 2099 projects. We love Brie's cheerleading spirit & her talents extend to modeling and nail art biz! pressonpals
Michael Daniel Smith
Animation All-Star on our Fungisaurs Rec Room 2099 project. Michael really has excellent posing & command over creature body language and dynamic movement! - LinkedIn Profile
Catton Arthur
The audio magician for our animation, Cat created a lot of the amazing score and sound effects for Fungisaurs. cattonarthur
David Lopez
David's a pro 2D artist & legit voice actor to boot. He was the voice of Dr. Také & the arresting agents in our Kickstarter anim. David's Art
Elvin Torres
Painter extraordinaire for all of the Fungisaurs 3D print prototypes versions 1 and 2!
Feras Khagani
Talented storyboard artist who lent his mad skills to help us visualize the Fungisaurs origin story and concept design for animation.
Feras' website
Gigi Jirapolchet
Digital marketing expert who helped initiate our
e-commerce and implement all things engagement! Her work can be found on definedcontent.com
Kuma
Our biggest cheerleader and reminder to take frequent walks in nature and playtime breaks. And he has an Instagram page.
Laura Stephens
Fungisaurs marketing strategy, research and guidance throughout the development process.
Megan Ring
Quite simply the best voice actress in LA to play Fungisaurs lead heroine, Kei, in our OG Kickstarter short film animatic.
Nara Thada
Our talented website designer with her chubby boii, Boba are behind this amazing web re-design, follow here works at narathada.com
Ryan Winch
Character concepts and design. Ryan's expertise helped us flesh out the first pitch of Fungisaurs animated universe. Ryan Winch
Zack Rock
Like a game programming superhero, Zack swooped in to create a kick-ass Fungisaurs mobile AR demo that led us to bigger and better opportunities
Faa Kinoshita
Fa Kinoshita, OG Creative Director of the Fungisaurs brand. Faa lent her considerable UI/UX design chops, & innovative ideas to establish our community. Fa now writes her blog & offers intuitive healing/coaching - TalktoFa
What's Next?
With your support, we plan to secure enough funding to create entertaining and engaging content, evolving the Fungisaurs brand into a sustainable and impactful community, and in doing so, we will inspire and educate the next generation on the importance of biodiversity & wild natural spaces of our planet to promote conservation.​