Hans Van Harken was born in Texas but spend his entire life moving frequently throughout the United States, Mexico, and Spain. At age 12, he had a short lived child-acting career in national toy commercials. As a teenager, he moved from Barcelona to San Francisco after graduating out of high school early, earning his Film and Television Production diploma at age sixteen. In San Francisco he studied Film Directing at The Academy of Art University briefly before moving onto a career of freelance animation work, which trained his visual story telling skills on the job. That path took him to Philadelphia and finally to Los Angeles. He now lives in Los Angeles (a place he can finally call home) working on a multitude of creative projects, mostly online focused. He has even started his own production company named Skel Studio since December of 2017.