
My drive as an educator comes from seeing students become the best version of themselves. I foster a learning environment where students are encouraged to take creative risks, embrace growth from mistakes, and learn to trust their own creative instincts. I instill in my students not only the technical ability but also the creative confidence to carve out their own one-of-a-kind story from within. I believe that animation inherently reflects the most vulnerable form of world building and self expression by the nature of handcrafting, performing various perspectives, and bringing inanimate objects to life.
Reel of Student Animations:


Student's With Their Fabricated Puppets:
Storyboard & Animatics:
Student: Ximena Guerrero-Zdeinert
Excerpt from animatic bottom left
Page one from storyboard bottom right

Student: Esther Kim
Excerpt from animatic bottom left
Page one from storyboard bottom right


Character Concept Art:



Student: Mia Cifuentes

Student: Marie Anderson

Student: Eunice Kim

Student: Esther Kim
Student: Ximena Guerrero-Zdeinert
Student: Rachel Keys