Animation Blog

Disney Animation Supervisor, Lino Di Salvo visits CIA

11/20/15  |  Posted by Mario Serrano  |  Posted in Animation

Spend a lunch hour learning about the latest in art and design during these Friday lectures. These lectures feature artists, designers and authors from around the world, including CIA faculty and visiting artists. Free and...

CIA Community Projects: Dog Eat Dog, Deck of Dice, Cleveland Museum of Natural History

11/18/15  |  Posted by Mario Serrano  |  Posted in Animation

Five CIA Animation students will see their ideas play out in a major motion picture when director Paul Schrader’s latest film, Dog Eat Dog, is released in 2016. The students spent the first half of...

CIA Alum Zack Petroc visits CIA to talk about his work on Big Hero 6

11/06/15  |  Posted by Mario Serrano  |  Posted in Animation

By Julie Troha Zack Petroc graduated from CIA in 1997 with a BFA in sculpture. Now he’s at the top of the digital sculpture and animation fields, working as a model supervisor at Disney Feature Animation....

Justin Kohn, Stop-Motion Animator: Nightmare Before Christmas, conducts a workshop at CIA.

05/30/15  |  Posted by Mario Serrano  |  Posted in Animation

Justin Kohn is a veteran stop motion animator with over two decades of experience animating and making armatures for animation. Justin has worked on several iconic stop motion projects including Tim Burton's The Nightmare before...

Blizzard Animator, Hunter Grant and Riot Animator, Tomas Jech visits CIA

04/22/15  |  Posted by Mario Serrano  |  Posted in Animation

Hunter Grant is the Lead Animator for In-Game Cinematics at Blizzard Entertainment. He has also worked for game studios 3DO, EA, Interplay, and Point of View. At Omation Animation Studio, he worked on the Barnyard...