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  • || FINE 1002: International Perspectives Through Animation||
  • || FINE 1810: Producing Animation ||
  • || FINE 2822 Digital Cinematography ||
  • || FINE 3814: Motion Graphics I ||
  • ||FINE 3815: Storyboarding||
  • ||FINE 3841: Creating Visual Narrative||
  • ||FINE 3842: Storyboarding for Games and Cinema||
  • || FINE 3845: PreProduction Story||
  • ||DACD 4810: Production II ||
  • || DACD 4820: Production III ||

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Animation’s wide-angle palette is the gift to the imagination every visual narrative artist should allow themselves to explore.

||2022 Demo Reel||

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||The Animated Professor: Creating Visual Narrative Video Blog ||

Kate Jessop

Queer Animator Kate Jessop and I discuss animation, visual narrative, and the power of animation’s wide-angle pallet to broaden perspective.

Disney Royalty, Don Hahn

The Producer of Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, The Emperor’s New Groove, The Huntchback of Notre Dame, and other hits, documentarian, author, and just all-around great guy discusses making and producing films and the ins and outs of working at the highest level in our industry.

Former student and Disney Director Jeff Gipson

My former student Jeff Gipson is now Directing films at Disney. We talk about his trajectory from skate park designer to the creator of the award-winning Cycles and what it is like to work as a Director at Disney.

Frequent collaborator Gunnar Wille

Frequent collaborator and former head of the Animation Director education at the Royal Danish Film school, Gunnar Wille, and I discuss creating visual narratives, worldbuilding, and staying prolific in your craft.

||Sample of my online lectures||

FINE 3841: Creating Visual Narrative

Lecture on Seeing Cinematically.

FINE 3842: Storyboarding for Games and Cinema

A lecture on Beat Board animatics.

Fine 2822: Digital Cinematography

Lecture on the cineActor camera in Unreal Engine 4.27/5

||Examples of Student work||

A Complex Villainelle, 2010

The 99’s 2013

I Need My Monster, 2014

Bamboo, 2018

Dead End Jobs, 2021

Monsterous Mishaps, 2021

The Present, 2022

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  • || FINE 1002: International Perspectives Through Animation||
  • || FINE 1810: Producing Animation ||
  • || FINE 2822 Digital Cinematography ||
  • || FINE 3814: Motion Graphics I ||
  • ||FINE 3815: Storyboarding||
  • ||FINE 3841: Creating Visual Narrative||
  • ||FINE 3842: Storyboarding for Games and Cinema||
  • || FINE 3845: PreProduction Story||
  • ||DACD 4810: Production II ||
  • || DACD 4820: Production III ||
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