Tristian K. Goik is an independent animator, motion graphics editor, and cartoonist. He grew up in New York City and graduated in 2009 from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied film and animation. Tristian has worked at Thomson Reuters, Page Six TV, "Our Cartoon President" and is currently working at the Emmy-nominated "Stephen Colbert Presents: Tooning Out the News!” Outside of animating, Tristian volunteers in film festival programming and is the President of ASIFA-East, an American chapter of an international association of animators.