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Visual Effects Supervisor
John Murrah
          John has been at Walt Disney Animation Studios for 10 years.  He has worked as Visual Effects Supervisor on the animated feature Bolt, the animated shorts Lorenzo the Cat and Tick tock Tale, as well as the television special Prep and Landing 2.  Prior to this, he worked at Dream Quest Images and Disney's Secret Lab creating visual effects for a variety of films, such as Armageddon, The Rock, The Mask, Crimson Tide, and The Crow.





Technical Direction
Hank Driskill
Visiting Instructor
          Hank has worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios since 1997, as Technical Supervisor on 102 Dalmations, Reign of Fire and Bolt, and helping out on Tarzan, Dinosaur, Tangled, and Prep and Landing: Operation Secret Santa, as well as helping supervise the stereo conversion of Beauty & the Beast and Lion King.  He's currently the Technical Supervisor on Prep & Landing 2: Naughty & Nice, a Christmas special being worked on for ABC.  Before coming to Disney, Hank worked at Digital Domain on Apollo 13, The Fifth Element, Dante's Peak, Titanic, and more.  Hank got his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 1994, and did his undergraduate work at the University of Kansas.

Layout
Terry Moews
Visiting Instructor
              Terry has been working non-stop, in the film business, for 25 years (it only seems like 27 when he stops to think about it), 16 of those years with Disney Animation and all of them behind a camera of one type or another.  Terry spend the first 9 shooting visual effectswork o n over 30+ films, including The Abyss, Total Recall, Lost Boys, Toys, Hook, Defending Your Life, Big Business, Stargate, Speed, and Batman Forever.  Terry came to Disney Animation Studios to direct and supervise the live action filming of Dinosaur (where he was selected as part of Dinosaur's Acadamy Award team for Oscar consideration).  Terry served as Layout Supervisor on Chicken Little, Bolt, Let it Begin, and Tick Tock Tale and contributed layout work on Tangled and Prep and Landing 2.




                                                                                      



Look Development
Michelle Robinson
 Visiting Instructor
               Michelle has worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios since 1993. Over the years she has served in many different capacities, starting as an animator, modeler, and rigger on Pocahontas, a modeler and lighting artist on Fantasia 2000, and a texture painter on Dinosaur. She then worked in visual development on Atlantis, an unfinished production called Wildlife, and Chicken Little, where she also worked in look development and lighting. Look development was her primary focus on several recent films and shorts, including The Little Match Girl, Treasure Planet, Meet the Robinsons, Prep and Landing,  Bolt, and Tangled,  where she groomed and textured Rapunzel. Before coming to Disney, Michelle completed her Bachelor's in Environmental Design from Texas A&M University in 1991, and then continued her education there in the Visualization program until 1993.





Animation
Doug Bennett
 Visiting Instructor
          
            Doug has worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios since 1995. As an animator, he worked on Fantasia2000, Tarzan, Dinosaur, Treasure Planet, and Tangled.  He supervised the characters Runt and Fish on Chicken Little and was the Animation Supervisor on Bolt. Before he came to Disney, Doug worked on numerous feature films, television shows, commercials and special projects in Toronto, Canada and Dublin, Ireland. Doug attended Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario from 1985- 1988.
Lighting and Compositing
Josh Staub
Visiting Instructor
          Josh serves as a Lighting Supervisor at Walt Disney Animation Studios, most recently completing work on the animated film Tangled.  Prior to joining Disney in 2007, Josh served as Art and Visual Design Director for Cyan Worlds, creators of Myst, Riven, and URU: Ages Beyond Myst.  In the Spring of 2005, Josh completed his first film, The Mantis Parable, a cg animated short completed entirely by Josh which has screened in over 80 festivals worldwide (Annecy, Tribeca) and won 17 top awards (twice qualifying for Oscar nomination consideration), while also gracing the screens of the nation's top art museums -the Smithsonian Institue, the National Gallery of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.




Effects Animation
Dale Mayeda
 Visiting Instructor
              Dale has worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios since 1999.  He has served as Effects Supervisor on Chicken Little and Bolt creating effects from flying space ships to explosions and fiery sound stages.  Prior to working on animated features, Dale has created effects on many live action visual effects films including Kangaroo Jack, Reign of Fire and Mission to Mars.  Prior to Disney, Dale worked at effects facilities, DreamQuest Images, Rainmaker Digital, and The Post Group creating effects for live action visual effects films, commercials and trailer graphics.  Dale attended UC Irvine as a Computer Science major from 1986-1991.