Animation Workshop faculty.
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 …
Chuck Sheetz ’83 is an Emmy Award™ winning animation director on “The Simpsons” and has directed such classic episodes as “I am Furious Yellow,” “Any Given Sundance,” “Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious,” “Springfield Up,” “Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind” (for which he won the Emmy™ in 2008) and “Gorgeous Grandpa.” He produced and directed many episodes of …
Artist and filmmaker Professor Celia L. Mercer animates the unexpected – rubbings of manhole covers, encaustic/collage paintings, children’s art on fabric, garden plants, photograms, paint splattered and dripped through stencils, and scrapes & scratches on film stock. These animated films are experimental in nature, sometimes abstract; sometimes figurative; they are also surprisingly accessible. There’s a …