DillonGoo
American animator
Dillon Gu, known by his online alias DillonGoo, is an American animator, director, and content creator. He is best known as the lead fight animator for the Rooster Teeth series RWBY starting from season 3 and for his Anime Cats YouTube series, as well as the cyberpunk-themed Genshin Impact fan series Progenitor, as a VTuber under the name Professor Goo, and as the founder of DillonGoo Studios. Through his studio, he has developed engines for Blender and collaborated with the Blender Foundation, as well as Blizzard Entertainment, HoYoVerse, Yostar, Gryphline, and Kuro Games, in addition to creating the 3D animated web series Soul Mart in 2025. He is a partner of the Blender Foundation since 2024 and is also an affiliate of the Kadokawa-backed agency GeeXPlus since 2025.
Career
2012–2024: Early career
Before pursuing a career in animation, he majored in computer science. He subsequently joined Rooster Teeth to work on RWBY before eventually returning to independent animation. Starting in 2017, DillonGoo created KatsuWatch, an animated web series which features Overwatch characters depicted as cats, with Blizzard Entertainment commissioning him for an animation related to Ana's Bastet Challenge, where Ana Amari is shown fighting crime while dressed as a cat. Additionally, Gu created an animation of Baptiste as a cat, nicknamed "Catiste", as well as an animation for Widowmaker. In 2022, DillonGoo Studios released the Goo Engine, a custom build of Blender designed specifically for use in 3D anime production which also serves as the studio's in-house version of Blender. In November 2023, DillonGoo Studios launched Emily, an anime-style 3D rig for Blender.
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