Davy Liu
United States / Taiwan
Speaker / Founder of Kendu Films / Former Animator of Disney, Industrial Light and Magic & Warner Bros
Born in Taiwan, Davy Liu was one of the first Chinese to join Walt Disney Feature Animation and has worked on animations such as ‘Beauty and the Beast’, ‘Aladdin’, ‘Mulan’ and ‘The Lion King’. He went on to develop the billion-dollar franchise with George Lucas on Star Wars at Industrial Light and Magic and Warner Bros. Feature Animation. Feature Animation, and his illustrations have graced the pages of prominent publications such as Business Week, Time Magazine and Wall Street Journal, of which he was nominated as the most distinctive illustrator in 2000.
Davy aspires to ‘Living Your Dreams, Create to Inspire’ and this led him to found Kendu Films in 2004. Besides being a motivational speaker and running animation workshops, he is working on a series of animation and picture books called the ‘Invisible Tails’ series retelling historical stories in a brand new perspective.