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 compact disc interactive game “The Wacky World of Miniature Golf” …
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 International Herald Tribune, Amazon.com, Variety, Modern Maturity, Télérama, Film Comment, …
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 Skir was nominated for the coveted Humanitas Award for his …
Lynn is an industry professional and educator dedicated to sharing the artistic and creative process with students of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. She has taught a wide range of animation filmmaking, interactive animation, and pre production design courses at UCLA, California State University Long Beach, Woodbury University, and CalArts. As a Master Teaching Artist …
Animation Program Supervisor Josh Morgan serves at the Animation Program Supervisor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television where he also teaches Interactive Animation. He specializes in educational software development and has programmed applications and games for the web and mobile devices. He was the lead programmer of Looney Tunes ClickN READ Phonics, …
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.
CHRIS APPELHANS has worked on several films. He was an illustrator and production designer for Coraline, an environment designer Fantastic Mr. Fox, and a visual development artist forThe Princess and the Frog.