Ridge Hirano is a junior majoring in Animation and Digital Arts at USC School of Cinematic Arts. He started learning digital tools while in high school, and continues to stay creative by constantly surrounding herself with inspiration and by taking old ideas or things that already exist and putting a new, unique twist on it. Ridge would love to produce animated films that preserve the mythos and histories of Indigenous cultures across the Pacific, in hopes that they can share these stories with their future generations as well as others who find their stories interesting.