Hailing from upstate New York, Shannon M. Beech, is a current art student at Columbus College of Art & Design studying traditional animation. Her goal is to specialize in character and concept design as well as story-planning and direction for feature-length animation.
Her many influences include, Winsor McKay, Osamu Tezuka, Yoshitaka Amano, Hayao Miyazaki, and Genndy Tartakovsky.