Grayden Laing is an Ontario-based artist who has been receiving artistic commissions since he was fourteen. He started out as a portrait artist and has branched into landscape painting, figurative sculpture, animation and live-action video.

After apprenticing with Elgin County artist Sir Peter Robson and studying fine arts at York University, Grayden’s honed experience in sculpture and portraiture have motivated him to explore the expressive possibilities of new media. Over the past few years, Grayden has ventured increasingly into the realm of film, particularly stop motion animation. He currently has a number of independent projects in the works.

In the past three years Grayden has produced and shot several animated short films including “Sound of Sorrow”, which is represented by OUAT! Media and has aired on the Moviola network in Canada.  Grayden's dark comedy "Smokey's Rage" won the animation showdown in August of 2008 on the Atom.com website and was aired on Comedy Central in the US.  During 2009 Grayden focused on producing two new stop-motion series "The Dolls House", written by Andrea Burgie, and "Eggs Gone Wild", created and produced by Grayden.  Grayden is also currently working with Decode Entertainment on developing his claymation show "Beer Goggles", which Decode optioned in 2007.

Grayden has also made an effort to share the excitement of animation with others by teaching animation techniques to children and adults.  Grayden has led animation camps and workshops of all sizes at Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Camp NeeKauNis, The Multicultural Cinema Club, and the Waterloo Regional Children's Museum.  During this time Grayden has also provided private animation instruction for individuals.

In addition to his animation work Grayden also does freelance video editing for television and has been an assistant editor on projects for VisionTV (God Bless America), and the W Network (STUCK, season II). In the fall of 2009 Grayden was an editor on Red Carpet Diary TIFF 2009 (Sonar Media Think).  Grayden's work for Red Carpet Diary has been distributed to over 20 different media companies; some of which are Cineplex Entertainment, Rogers Television, and the Toronto Star.