Caleb Hystad, Studio Director

As head of productions for New Machine Studios, Caleb brings with his a strong sense of visual story telling and six years of animation production management experience.

After completing his classical animation studies at Applied Multimedia Training Center in Calgary, Caleb took on a wide range of creative roles in a three year turn at AurenyA Entertainment Group, where he conceptualized, story-boarded, animated, and directed several commercial and television projects.

At AurenyA, Caleb earned an Assistant Director credit on the award-winning television special, The Elfkins’ First Christmas.

He then moved on to work as a Lead Character Designer and Animator at Orbital Media, a Nintendo console game studio.

One year later, Caleb returned to television animation as the Director and Supervising Story Artist on the multiple award-winning half hour pilot show, Raven Tales: How Raven Stole The Sun, and the critically acclaimed short film, The Big Rock Story. He is currently heading up production of both the Feature Film project, The Wizard's Christmas, and directing the last six episodes of the Raven Tales series.