Welcome! Chaz Bottoms is a Director, Story Artist, Writer and Founder of CBA Studios. Originally from Cleveland Ohio, he received his BFA in Animation from DePaul University in Chicago, IL.

Currently living in Los Angeles, CA, Chaz has collaborated and produced content for Disney (Saturdays), Cartoon Network, AppleTV, Springhill, Lil Nas X, Adult Swim, Steve Harvey Global, John Legend, Sesame Street, TBS, Sony Music, Columbia Records, Atlantic Records, Snapchat, & Bleacher Report. He has worked as a storyboard artist and character designer for Nickelodeon Animation and as a Storyboard Artist at Netflix Animation.

Chaz has received the Shadow & Act Rising Artist award, and has been selected as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Hollywood & Entertainment Lister.

Chaz’s student short films Hello, The Creator, Touche Toupee and A Walk to School have premiered at film festivals across the globe. His 2016 student film Introvert was apart of Season 6 of ABFF Independent and is currently airing on AspireTV. His 2017 thesis film All Kids Go to Hell premiered at Cannes Short Film Corner, Cleveland International, on ToonBoom, AfroPunk and was featured in an Art Gallery during Summer 2018 in Taiwan. In 2018 Chaz co-directed The Indies: An Animated Short, a film that raised $50,000 on Kickstarter to produce and is currently airing on RevoltTV.

Chaz’s next short film, BATTU: An Animated Musical is coming 2024.

Chaz is repped by Blue Key Management & CAA.