Chris Johnston, Art Director

Originally from Bellingham, Ontario, Chris Johnston was raised in Calgary and has been able to explore his creative talents through many artistic fields. He began his career as an apprentice at the animation studio AurenyA in 1999, then spent time as a creative lead at a local games studio before joining New Machine Studios to work on the Raven Tales series.

Chris initially joined the production team to work on Raven Tales as a story and concept artist, but his re-imagining of the original pilot characters and inspired designs of new locations, props and characters for the series led to him assuming the role of Art Director and he has since designed the bulk of the series.

Chris began writing episodes for Raven Tales starting with Episode 22, Bukwas, followed by Work and Play and the upcoming episode, The Return of Kulos.

In addition to his design work on Raven Tales, Chris is an important member of the story team at the studio. He co-developed the story and boarded our first feature film project, The Wizard's First Christmas. He is currently hard at work writing our next feature project, the Halloween story, Orange.

His personal projects include a self-published comic book entitled, Jet Pack Mike, which he wrote and illustrated, as well as various other works.