Daniel Johnson

Dan Johnson is a digital artist who worked for years as art director, illustrator, animator, and digital visual effects artist. He has worked on effects for film and television. He served for several years as the team leader of the Digital Matte team at Pixel Corps in San Francisco and has worked on visual effects for film and TV, including as a digital paint artist on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. 

Dan is an Adobe Certified Instructor and taught computer graphics at the College of Marin in Novato, California and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco before coming to the University of North Georgia in 2017.

As a digital artist with a traditional media background, he is largely self-taught and now shares with his students his experience and techniques gained through years of trial and error.

• B.F.A., Illustration, Brigham Young University, 1996