Come join us for one week of Continuing Education classes on animation. You’ll learn about character design, storyboarding, and both stop-motion and 3D animation from instructors who are professional animators. A guest animator will answer questions about their work and share insights into how you can enhance your animation skills across comic, video game, film, and TV production.
Below you can briefly meet each of our instructors for the writing sessions. You can register to attend the series here.
INSTRUCTOR BIOs
Class: Guest Speaker (July 22)
Instructor: Andrew Augustin
Andrew Augustin is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts and Entertainment Technologies department at the University of Texas at Austin. Augustin is a 2D illustrator and game designer with a rich history of conceptualizing and creating compelling characters, notably for The Sims 3: Pets. As the founder of Notion Games LLC, he’s launched unique titles like Team Notion and the Super Ubie Island series. He was recognized on the Forbes “30 Under 30” and Black Enterprise “Modern Man” lists and is a featured contributor in Innovate Gaming and Esports Vol. 1. Currently, he’s helping to mold the next generation of talent.
Class: Guest Speaker (July 22)
Instructor: Kirsten Terry
Kirsten is currently an animator at Decoy Games. She’s been working professionally for three years and is an alumnus of Animation Mentor and the University of Texas at Austin. Her experience includes animating for films and games. When she’s not animating, she is fanning out over BTS or watching a lot of movies and TV. Some of her favorite animated films are THE INCREDIBLES, MOANA, THE LION KING, and SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE. Her favorite animated characters are Peridot from Steven Universe and Korra from The Legend of Korra.
Character Design (July 23), Storyboarding (July 24)
Instructor: Will Rodriguez
Will Rodriguez has thirty years of freelance animation and illustration experience, including time as a high school animation instructor. His influences range from Adam Warren (The Dirty Pair, Empowered) to Milt Kahl (THREE CABALLEROS, PINOCCHIO, THE JUNGLE BOOK), and his passion for creativity has only grown over the years. He is the creator of the webcomic Mangled Stare and was one of the 3D modelers on the game Battle Carry. He is married to his junior-high sweetheart and is a proud father of three beautiful children.
Stop Motion Animation (July 25), Intro to 3D Animation (July 26)
Instructor: Cesar Guevara
Cesar Guevara is the founding director of the independent collective Tren Géminis which has produced award-winning short films through a network of talented and passionate filmmakers over the span of two decades. For fifteen years, as the director of the Ay! Guana Shorts! Short Film Festival, he has partnered with the University of Guanajuato (Mexico) to promote local artists and encourage dialogue and reflections on the experiences and expectations of Guanajuato filmmakers.
Since 2017, he has worked as an instructor at the public access television station Austin Public, a non-exclusive and content-neutral media studio that offers low- and no-cost training, equipment, facilities, and content distribution services to everyone in Austin, Texas. In 2021, he became the director of programming at Bajío International Film Festival (BJX Fest). A dynamic new film festival in Guanajuato, Mexico, BJX Fest brings together international and local filmmakers to showcase their work.
