Contact

John Coven
C: +1 310-339-9994
E: johnnycoven@gmail.com   

About

John Coven is currently the director of the department of animated film at the Gobelins School in Paris, France. He has worked as a storyboard artist since 1990 with over eighty feature films to his credit.  Included among them are Muffasa: The Lion King, Jumanji:The Next Level, The Lion King, Logan, Captain America: Civil War, Smallfoot, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Jurassic World, Godzilla, The Wolverine, The Muppets, The Green Hornet, 3:10 To Yuma, Walk the Line, X-Men, The Usual Suspects, and Reality Bites.  He brings to his work a highly developed sense of storytelling and cinematic grammar that he combines with the speed needed to meet any deadline.  John works digitally and can create animatics.  He’s a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as well as the Art Director's Guild, Local 800, of the I.A.T.S.E. He has taught storyboarding, entertainment design, and illustration at the Art Center College of Design, and the Otis College of Art and Design.  John is a graduate of Ecole National des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg and The College of William and Mary.