Cap City Studios, LLC was founded by Tom Richner in February of 2008.  You can contact him at trichner@gmail.com.

Tom Richner’s Bio

Richner has been an Assistant Animation Professor in the Media Studies Department at the Columbus College of Art and Design for the past six years.  He specializes in traditional hand drawn animation and teaches a number of animation, storyboarding and film design courses.   He recently founded Cap City Studios, LLC, an animation studio located in Columbus, Ohio.

Before moving back to Ohio, Richner was a layout artist and sheet timer on the television show The Simpsons for six seasons, working closely with the directors and producers on over twenty episodes of that series. Richner also acted as a consultant on the Electronic Arts’ production of The Simpsons Video Game. Through his work on The Simpsons and his education at UCLA, Richner learned the importance of strong storytelling with compelling characters. This is the foundation upon which Cap City Studios was built.

Richner holds an MFA in Animation from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, as well as a BFA in Fine Arts from Denison University in Granville, Ohio.