Our Team

Joel Gottsegen

Joel is a co-founder and co-director of Petty Karma, as well as the team’s technical director. Before starting Petty Karma he founded Qualia Software, the largest real estate closing software in the United States. He loves video games and struggles to put together a top 10 list of favorites, but knows it would include Morrowind, Bloodborne, and Chrono Trigger.

Justin Olifant

Justin is a co-founder and co-director of Petty Karma, as well as the team's art director. A lawyer by trade, Justin left the legal world to purse his dream of making games. He enjoys rock climbing and playing Dungeons and Dragons as well as vigorously splitting hairs with his friends over where the best burgers and pizza can be found.

Vittoria Pampaloni

Vittoria Pompolani is an illustrator and comic book artist who does the character designs at Petty Karma. Often working under the name Bonedust, Vittoria is an acclaimed character illustrator, with over 100,000 followers on Instagram. Vittoria is also known for her work on the board game Gudnak and her comic book Snail Knight.

Tina Nawrocki

Tina Nawrocki is an Annie Award winning 2D animator who’s experience spans video games, television and film. Tina is best know for her work at Studio MDHR on the video game Cuphead and Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course. On top of her work at Petty Karma, currently Tina is directing and animating her own hand drawn short film entitled Syrenka: Legend of the Warsaw Mermaid.

Gustavo García Faller

Gustavo is an FX artist managing character and environmental FX at Petty Karma. Notably, he made significant contributions as a 2D FX animator for Space Jam: A New Legacy and has lent his talents to various TV series for major networks like Warner Brothers, BBC, and Nickelodeon. Balancing his professional life between Ecuador and the Canary Islands, Gustavo finds joy in powerlifting and pursues his passion for singing, occasionally performing in local bars with his high school band.

Terry Ibele

Terry is a Toronto-based 2D and stop motion animator who's worked on video game, television, social media, and short film productions. When he's not animating, you can find him in the kitchen making baked goods for his tiny dog.

Rita Kaczmarska

Rita is an experienced visual development game artist and a published illustrator from Poland living in Seattle. She leads Petty Karma's environment art department, where she designs the mood, concepts, and all of the assets used to build the game scenes. She also oversees layout construction in the game engine. Outside of work, Rita enjoys theatre and loves anything spooky, like Silent Hill. She has a soft spot for bunnies and has probably too many of them!

Star Ren

Star Ren is a 2D animator from New York who has done work for indie projects like Lackadaisy and UNBEATABLE. Outside of animation, they love music, cats, and crafting!

Malena Medel

Currently a clean up artist for Petty Karma, Malena is an animator and art director based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has previously worked on 2D music videos for studios such as Rudo.Co and 2/Veinte. She is currently finishing her first original short, Fue Hoy, and loves the color green.

Yana Bogdankevich

Yana is a cleanup and color artist at Petty Karma. She is from Belarus and currently lives in Poland. Before joining Petty Karma she took part in several projects as a 2D character animator and loves animation in all of its forms.

Rikki-Lee Skinner

Rikki works as a layout artist on the environment team at Petty Karma. Her past projects include working on backgrounds for the Total Drama Island series and a variety of 3D VR projects. She is new to games and eager to learn more about the gaming world!

Jane Oliinyk

Jane is a layout artist on the environment team, putting together game environments. Before this project, she worked as a layout artist in the animation industry, including Strange Planet and Red Ketchup. She is based in Canada. In her free time she loves playing video games, watching movies and traveling the world.

Elena Velasco

Elena is a 2D animator - the more traditional, the better! Since she got her start working on Klaus she has never stopped animating characters, including on Space Jam 2, Central Park, Descendants, and Valemon. She splits her time between Madrid and the fairy kingdom.

Luis De la Rosa

Luis is a character animator at Petty Karma. After experiencing an existential crisis, Luis dropped out of college to pursue his dream of becoming an animator. Ever since, he has been fortunate enough to work on international movies and TV shows. He is best known for his work on Space Jam and Animaniacs.

Joseph Coleman

Joseph is a 2D animator with experience in video game, short film, and music video productions. He is best known for his work on the Annie Award winning game, Cuphead and Cuphead: Delicious Last Course. Joseph enjoys illustrating in his spare time. He recently published his first children's coloring book titled Journey to Africa.

Ewan Mallinson

Ewan is a game programmer and designer based in Scotland. He recently released Hoversteppers, a freestyle hoverboard skating game. In his free time he makes music, including contributions to a League of Legends event via Riot Games.

Peter Lowey

Peter is a 2D animator based in London, U.K.  He has a love for 2D games and has animated on many commercials and films including the 2023 Oscar winning short The Boy, the Mole the Fox and the Horse.