Career Connections

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Interviews

Animated Views: Interview Archives. Interviews with directors, artists, composers, and filmmakers. animatedviews.com/category/interviews/

Lead Animator/Supervising Animator

Interview with Scott Clark, supervising animator at Pixar
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Radio interview with Shawn Kelly, ILM lead animator, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen animatedlim.blogspot.com/2009/06/shawn-kelly-interview-on-alice973.html

Interview with Starling Allen, lead animator for A Scanner Darkly www.layersmagazine.com/vector-art-goes-hollywood.html

Interview with Daniel Lilleberg, Global Agenda lead animator www.tentonhammer.com/node/73916

Multi-part interview with Mark Henn, supervising animator, The Princess and the Frog animatedviews.com/2009/the-princess-and-the-frogs-supervising-animator-mark-henn-a-career-retrospective

Lighter/Lighting Technical Director/Lighting Animator

Interview with Neil, a technical director at Pixar www.pixar.com/artistscorner/neil/interview.html

Interview with Dennis Muren, excerpted from Inspiring 3D: Lighting and Compositing by David Parish (Cincinnati, OH: Premier Press, 2002) http://www.awn.com/vfxworld/inspired-3d-lighting-and-compositing-interview-dennis-muren

Storyboard Assistant/Production Assistant

Interview with Chris Belcher, production assistant intern at Nickelodeon Studios for Penguins of Madagascar aidallasalumni.blogspot.com/2010/02/chris-belcher-nickelodeon-intern.html

Storyboard Artist

Interview with Joe, storyboard artist at Pixar www.pixar.com/artistscorner/joe/interview.html

Interview with Christian DeVita, storyboard artist, Fantastic Mr. Fox hdrawn.ca/2009/11/09/an-interview-with-fantastic-mr-fox-storyboard-artist-christian-devita/

Interview with Federico D’Alessandro, storyboard artist, Where the Wild Things Are www.smashboxstudios.com/yello/?p=858

Interview with Enrico Casarosa, storyboard artist, Ratatouille animatedviews.com/2007/enrico-casarosa-on-storyboarding-ratatouille

Other Career Resources

ConnectEd Studios includes “day-in-the-life” videos of industry professionals as well as a database of individuals who have volunteered to be available to teachers and students for their media projects. connectedstudios.org

Made in Hollywood, Teen Edition. Interviews with movie industry professionals, including some who work in animation. www.madeinhollywood.tv/teenedition.html

Skillset Careers: Working in Animation. www.skillset.org/animation/careers