Animation workshop alumni.
Pouya Afshar is an alumnus from the California Institute of Arts Character Animation department and is a graduate of UCLA’s Graduate Department of Film and Television focusing in Animation and Digital Media. He has exhibited his work as an animator and visual artist throughout Los Angeles and United States at renowned locations such as Harold …
Emezie is an independent animator and musician who graduated from M.I.T. (Chemical Engineering), The University of Chicago Law School, and Illinois Institute of Art before attending the UCLA Animation Workshop. As a student of UCLA, Emezie created the films “Chubby Mermaid” and “Porkchop ‘n Flatscreen”, the latter of which he continued as a Youtube animated …
Kate Isenberg is an animator, writer, and musician. After getting her bachelor’s degree from Harvard’s English department, she worked in journalism and released two albums of original folk-pop songwriting. Her original comic series (“Stewball,” about a bipedal horse with an existential dilemma) was the springboard for her thesis at UCLA. The film, called “Dear Death,” …
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.
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, …