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.
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 …