Native New Yorker, independent animator, impressionist, dadaist... Tristian K. Goik is an independent animator, motion graphics editor, and cartoonist. He grew up in New York City and graduated from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied film and animation. Tristian has worked at Thomson Reuters, Page Six TV, and "Stephen Colbert Presents: Tooning Out the News" in animation, motion graphics, and video. Outside of animating, Tristian volunteers in film festival programming, and is also the President of ASIFA East, an American chapter of an international association of animators.