Animation workshop adjunct faculty.
April Connors is an author, illustrator, and life drawing instructor. They have been teaching life drawing for over a decade, at fine and notable institutions such as Warner Animation Group, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Netflix, Gnomon School of VFX, Otis College of Art and Design, and L.A Academy of Figurative Art, amongst others. As their …
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 …
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 …
Director of Animation Resources Daniel Olivas has built a career in Stop Motion 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 for Art Studio & Film Studies, and received his MFA at UCLA in Animation. Since 2022, he …
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 …