Character Animation
CalArts formed the foundation: observation, acting, design, staging, movement, and the habit of solving story problems visually.
CalArts
Craft before system.
Before the studio leadership, production systems, AI workflows, and founder strategy, there was drawing, timing, performance, and the discipline of character animation.
Making teaches faster than theory.
The student film environment sharpened the relationship between ambition, limits, deadlines, and taste.
The artist's eye remains.
Even as the work expands into systems and AI, the original filter is still animation craft.