Animation Workshop faculty.
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 …
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 …