Award-winning author, historian, filmmaker and more, Mindy Johnson is a leading expert on women’s roles in animation and film history. Recently, Mindy discovered the earliest-surviving hand-drawn animation, animated & directed by a woman, over 100 years ago. With a global debut at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, she has been traveling globally to screen …
Jay Shipman is a 2018 MFA graduate of UCLA’s Animation Workshop. Jay’s studentfilm, The Lineman, screened at several festivals and was chosen as a semifinalist forthe 2018 Student Academy Awards.Since graduation, Jay has worked in animation, production, and puppet fabrication onvarious stop-motion projects throughout the industry. Productions include Alien Xmas,Crossing Swords Season 2, Marcel the …
Animation Extravaganza June 8, 2024 || James Bridges TheaterProgram I: 6:00 p.m. || Program II: 7:00 p.m. The UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television is pleased to present this year’s Animation Extravaganza, part of the 2024 TFT Film Festival! Please join us to celebrate our animators and showcase their incredible works! Animation Extravaganza is an all-inclusive, …
Stephanie James is a Los Angeles artist who primarily works in stop motion animation. Her roles have varied from puppet fabrication, to puppet department coordinator, stage support, and puppet wrangling. With her love of miniatures she has also ventured into the realm of live action and toy commercials as a scale model maker, art department …
Pouya Afshar is an alumnus from the California Institute of Arts Character Animation department and is a graduate of UCLA’s Graduate Department of Film and Television focusing in Animation and Digital Media. He has exhibited his work as an animator and visual artist throughout Los Angeles and United States at renowned locations such as Harold …
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 is the Head of Stop Motion in the Animation Workshop at UCLA. He has worked 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 where he double majored in with BA’s in Art …
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 …