Tristian Goik

Board Member

Tristian K. Goik is an independent animator, motion graphics editor, and cartoonist.  He grew up in New York City and graduated from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied film and animation.

Tristian has worked at the news agency Thomson Reuters, celebrity news show Page Six TV, Showtime’s Our Cartoon President, and Emmy-nominated Stephen Colbert Presents: Tooning Out the News in animation, motion graphics, and video.  Tristian loves to attend drink-and-draw sessions across the city, has been featured in markets at Club Cumming, Brooklyn Queer Flea, and Doable Guys, et al, and has been a guest artist at “Picture This!” an animated comedy show. He is currently animating an autobiographical experimental film, one frame-by-frame hand-drawn loop at a time.  Tristian is looking for the next big thing, while working part-time at Bleacher Report’s sports cartoon GridIron Heights.

Outside of animating, Tristian volunteers in film festival programming.  He is the Film Festival Co-Chair of ASIFA-East, and was president of ASIFA-East from 2019-2023.  Tristian has curated five years of ASIFA-East’s LGBT Pride show Queer Animation: From A to Z.  He has moderated animation panels at Animation Nights New York, the Animation First Festival at L’Alliance New York, and FlameCon, NY’s largest LGBT comic convention. Tristian loves to write for ASIFA-East’s animation blog, and has been published in ASIFA Magazine.