Heather Collins was raised in Colorado and educated at Duke prior to attending UCLA. She creates stop motion and hand-drawn stories where bad things happen to cute characters. Her interests include dark humor, strange animals, and mountains.www.theheathercollins.com ...
Dorian Yarnelson is a proud member of the UCLA animation workshop and Film/TV community. His artistic and academic interests include history, mythology and the wilderness of the human mind. His loyalty to the workshop is absolute. ...
Alex Wong is an Animation Workshop alumnus. He studied Visual Arts and Computer Science at Brown University and enrolled in several animation courses at the Rhode Island School of Design. His interest in the intersection between art and technology drove him to explore animation, and...
Before coming to UCLA, Doug Ward worked as a Character Layout artist and Animation Timer for Fox’s “King of the Hill.” He also spent six years in the interactive industry as an animator, director, writer, and eventually producer.He created, designed, co-wrote, directed and animated the...
Amy Winfrey is an American animator, screenwriter, songwriter, and voice actress. She is best known for creating the web series Making Fiends that was later picked up by Nickelodeon in 2006. ...
Glenn Vilppu is one of the premier figure drawing instructors to the Hollywood animation studios. ...
Charles Solomon is a lecturer in animation at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. An internationally respected animation critic and historian, Solomon has written on the subject for the New York Times, TV Guide, Newsweek (Japan), Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, The...
Robert N. Skir has written hundreds of hours of TV animation featuring characters ranging from Wolverine and Batman to the Pink Panther and Jim Henson's Muppets. He developed the series “X-Men: Evolution” and story edited the shows “Transformers: Beast Machines,” “Extreme Ghostbusters” and “Godzilla.” Professor...
As a UCLA student, Lynn Okimura ’00, MFA ’05 garnered multiple honors or prizes, including the industry selected Spotlight Award in Animation. Prior to returning to campus as a member of the faculty, her creative work was in flash and 2D animation for mobile content...
Joshua J. Morgan teaches Interactive Animation at UCLA. He is also the Animation Technical Services Engineer at Loyola Marymount University, where he teaches Interactive Animation and Game Design.A native to Southern California, Josh holds a BA in Communication Studies and an MFA in Animation, both...