Emezie is an independent animator and musician who graduated from M.I.T. (Chemical Engineering), The University of Chicago Law School, and Illinois Institute of Art before attending the UCLA Animation Workshop. As a student of UCLA, Emezie created the films “Chubby Mermaid” and “Porkchop ‘n Flatscreen”, the latter of which he continued as a Youtube animated …
Kate Isenberg is an animator, writer, and musician. After getting her bachelor’s degree from Harvard’s English department, she worked in journalism and released two albums of original folk-pop songwriting. Her original comic series (“Stewball,” about a bipedal horse with an existential dilemma) was the springboard for her thesis at UCLA. The film, called “Dear Death,” …
Director of Animation Resources Daniel Olivas has built a career in Stop Motion as an animator on series such as Robot Chicken, Marvel’s MODOK, Storybots, and Santa Inc. He was born in San Diego and attended UC Davis for Art Studio & Film Studies, and received his MFA at UCLA in Animation. Since 2022, he …
Workshop alum and Pixar animator Erick Oh was recently interviewed by sce.ne for his work on several upcoming Pixar films, including Finding Dory and Sanjay’s Super Team. Read the full article here: http://app.sce.ne/scene/30239/aca39e9adc914f23a4c22217793f4fdb
For 16 years, The Animation Show of Shows has been created curated and presented by Ron Diamond, to introduce new and innovative short films exclusively for animation studios, societies, schools, and festivals around the world. Each year over 3,000 animated shorts are created, some of which take years to complete, but only a handful are …
First day of instruction is Thursday September 24th, 2015. Pictured: assigning work space in the Animation Workshop circa 1962.
UCLA Animation Workshop’s annual Falling Lizard Weekend is almost here! Beginning Monday Jan 25th, check the bulletin board in the main room – we’ll start a list of topics at that time. Add your inspired ideas all week long and help us come up with a great theme. The event will officially commence on Friday January 29th …
UCLA Animation Workshop will be hosting it’s annual Festival of Animation, or as we liked to call it, Prom on June 6th in Bridges Theater at 7 PM. Doors open at 6:30. Party to follow at Sound Stage 2. This year’s theme is Film Noir, so come as your best Humphrey Bogart or femme fatale.RSVP: http://legacy.tft.ucla.edu/festival/
Once a year students, faculty, and friends of the workshop gather to make a short film.
Charles Solomon, UCLA animation alumnus and lecturer, received the June Foray Award at the Annie Awards on Saturday January 21st. Read more about it here.