Chaz Bottoms is a director, animator, story artist and founder of CBA Studios. Chaz has collaborated and produced content for Disney, Springhill, Lil Nas X, Adult Swim, Steve Harvey Global, John Legend, Sesame Street, TBS, Sony Music, and others! He has worked at Nickelodeon Animation, Cartoon Network, Netflix, and Apple TV+. In 2023 he was named Forbes 30 Under 30 Hollywood & Entertainment for his studio's work. Chaz’s next short film, BATTU: An Animated Musical is coming soon.

I've been working as an animator for 16 years. I started as a 3D animation director and animator, but in the last 6 years, I started studying and working with 2D animation. I directed seven short films, worked on series, and currently am directing my first feature-length film, scheduled to be released in November 2023.

My journey in animation started as a stop motion artist, focusing mainly on artistic projects working with paper cut outs and puppets. After a slow transition to the digital medium and years of migrating between animation softwares as a hobbyist I've finally made the leap to Toon Boom. That marked the beginning of my professional career and I'm now working internationally as a freelancer, both as a rigger and character animator for TV serieses. I try, whenever possible, to keep producing personal projects, to keep some sanity going in a very demanding industry.