Zach McLean
Instructor, NPC College of Arts & Design
Concept artist, illustrator and art director; founder of Poiesis Studios.
Concept artist, illustrator and art director.
Zach is the founder of Poiesis Studios, a creative pre-production studio that has worked with animation studios, game developers, ad agencies, movie companies and web3 companies. Its current clients are primarily animation, metaverse and NFT companies.
He has over eight years of experience working in-studio at game, animation and VFX companies as a Lead Concept Artist.
His expertise and focus is intellectual property creation. He starts with both concept design and writing to develop original, meaningful stories that connect with an audience: written story, branding, character design and key art, through to pitch documents and early storyboarding.
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Applications for the September 2027 intake are open. The early admission deadline is March 1, 2027 and the regular deadline is July 1, 2027.