Guest Speaker: Stever Martino
Blue Sky Studios
Wed, April 22, 7PM
Student Center Theater
Steve Martino has been a leader in the design and direction
of computer animation for the past 25 years. His work spans the
explosion of an industry that began with short animated graphics for TV
networks and advertisers and evolved to become the mainstay of animated
feature film production. Most recently, Steve partnered with Jimmy
Hayward to direct the motion picture Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a
Who! for 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios. The film has garnered
acclaim from critics and audiences alike for both its innovative
animation styling and the care with which the filmmakers brought Dr.
Seuss’ beloved book to the big screen.
Steve came to Blue Sky Studios in 2002 as the Art Director on the movie
Robots and has contributed his design support to Ice Age: The Meltdown
and the animated short Gone Nutty. Prior to his work in animated
feature films Steve was a founding partner of Click 3X-LA, and
Creative Director at 7th Level Inc., and MetroLight Studios where he
designed and directed animation and visual effects for television,
interactive media and features. Highlights of this period included a
Prime Time Emmy Award for his direction of ABC’s World of
Discovery main title and his collaboration with Terry Gilliam and Eric
Idle on a series of Monty Python interactive projects. Steve got his
start in animation when he completed his Master’s degree at Ohio
State’s Computer Graphics Research Group and honed his skills as
a designer and animator at Cranston/Csuri Productions. His work at this
time included some of the first wave of computer animation seen around
the world, for events like the Super Bowl on CBS.
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