Tenaya Anue is a writer and animator. After studying Fine Arts and Creative Writing at University of Pennsylvania, she moved on to the Masters in Animation at UCLA. Her work, both comics and animations, is narratively driven, often with a surreal or fantastical element. Website: www.tenayaanue.com Blog: http://www.tenayaanue.blogspot.com/ instagram: @tenayaanue
Sam Grinberg is a cartoonist & animator. A graduate of The School of Visual Arts, he is producing his own comic book series and currently working toward his master’s in animation at UCLA.You can see his work on his website here www.samgrinberg.com
Heather is a legendary hero who like long runs, hikes through the hills, cupcakes, television, and art. After graduating from Loyola University Chicago with a Bachelor’s in Fine Art, she immediately journeyed to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of working in animation. www.epicheather.com
Valerie Giuili is an award-winning writer and story artist. A California native, Valerie initially worked in the tech industry as a developer and designer, dedicating off-hours to her alt/noise rock band, before beginning the animation program at UCLA. After graduating, Valerie focused her career on adult animation, working on such shows as Family Guy, Midnight …
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 he now enjoys creating meaningful stories.
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.