Tomás Pichardo Espaillat (b. 1987) is a storyteller from the Dominican Republic. Working primarily on animation, film, and illustration. He was granted a full-year scholarship at Fabrica, Benetton's Design Research Center, in Treviso, Italy, in 2013. Tomás received his BFA in Animation at Parsons, The New School of Design in 2010. And his AA degree in Fine Arts, at Altos de Chavón, in 2008. He’s also an alumni of Berlinale Talents, Talents Guadalajara, and Pictoplasma Academy, Pichardo's work has hints of magic realism.