Amy Winfrey
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
Glenn Vilppu is one of the premier figure drawing instructors to the Hollywood animation studios.
Charles Solomon
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, …
Bob Skir
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 Okimura
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 and in music videos for many companies, including Disney TV …
Josh Morgan
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, …
Valerie Lettera
Mike Johnson
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
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.
Dan McLaughlin
Dan McLaughlin entered the UCLA Animation Workshop in 1956. The Workshop had been created in 1947 by Bill Shull, a former Disney animator, who established the Workshop’s basic philosophy of, “one person, one film” with a strong commitment to content and quality. Dan graduated in 1958 and started working in the UCLA Animation Workshop the …