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...
Mike Johnson is a stop motion animator who has worked on films such as James and the Giant Peach and The Nightmare Before Christmas, short films such as an animation of The Devil Went Down to Georgia, and TV programmes such as The PJs. ...