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| Eric Darnell (Director/Writer) made
his feature film directorial debut on "Antz," which marked PDI/DreamWorks' first computer-animated project. He also assisted with computer animation research and development for DreamWorks Animation's first traditionally animated feature, "The
Prince of Egypt."
Darnell earned a BA in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Colorado and an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts. While completing his MFA, he was awarded filmmaking grants from both the Ahmanson Foundation and the Princess Grace Foundation. Beginning his career as a freelance animator, Darnell worked on a variety of projects, including the animated music video "Get Up" for the rock band REM. Coming to PDI/DreamWorks in 1991, Darnell went on to helm numerous commercial and short film projects. His in-house animated short entitled "Gas Planet" garnered international recognition, including the Ottawa Animation Festival Prize for Best Computer Animation. Tom McGrath (Director/Writer) also provides the voice of Skipper, the leader of a band of resourceful penguins, in "Madagascar." McGrath's career in animation spans more than 15 years, and he has also worked extensively in live action. His live-action feature story work includes the comedies "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," for director Ron Howard, and "Cats & Dogs." On the animation side, McGrath served as an animator and also did storyboarding for the feature "Cool World," and was a key animator on "Space Jam" and "Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus." For television, McGrath has worked as a director on the popular series "The Ren & Stimpy Show," as well as various pilots for Nickelodeon. In addition, he has worked on numerous commercials and animated shorts. Mireille Soria (Producer) most recently produced DreamWorks Animation's animated adventure "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas." She also produced "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," which earned an Academy Award® nomination for Best Animated Feature. The latter marked her first producing credit for an animated motion picture, although she has an extensive background in live-action film and television. Prior to taking the producing reins for "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," Soria had a producing deal at Fox Family Pictures, where she produced the romantic Cinderella story "Ever After," starring Drew Barrymore. She also executive produced the Disney Channel horror comedy "Under Wraps." Soria had previously held the post of vice president of production for Walt Disney Pictures from 1990 to 1995. During her tenure, she oversaw the development and production of such projects as "Cool Runnings," "The Mighty Ducks" and its two sequels, and 1994's live-action version of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book." She had come to Disney from the Steve Tisch Company, where she was a vice president and also produced several projects. Her producing credits there included the pilot and 13 episodes of the television series "Dirty Dancing," the telefilms "Victim of Love" and "Out on the Edge," and the CBS Afterschool Special "Lies of the Heart." She also developed a number of other feature film and cable and network television projects. Soria began her career in 1982 as manager of dramatic series development at ABC. Two years later, she joined Columbia Pictures Television as director of current programs. In 1985, she returned to ABC as director of dramatic series development, and was responsible for developing the groundbreaking series "thirtysomething." Teresa Cheng (Co-Producer) has more than 20 years of production experience at leading film studios and digital effects production houses, as well as Canada's largest broadcasting network. She most recently held the post of head of production for PDI/DreamWorks, overseeing all of the studio's production efforts on a global level. She also served as the production manager for DreamWorks Animation's Oscar®-nominated animated feature "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron." Prior to joining DreamWorks Animation, she produced visual effects for numerous films, including the actioner "Batman and Robin," at Warner Bros.; "Batman Forever" and "Ace Ventura II: When Nature Calls," at Rhythm and Hues; and "True Lies," at Digital Domain. Cheng also supervised the production of the first Coca-Cola commercial featuring computer-generated polar bears, and a television spot for Jeep called "Snow Covered," which earned a Cannes Grand Prix award. Cheng began her career in the television industry as a producer and manager at CBC Television, Canada's largest network. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Washington. Mark Burton (Writer) is a UK-based comedy writer with a widely varied career in film and television on both sides of the Atlantic. He has won several awards for his writing, including the British Comedy Award and the Premier Ondas Award. Burton has written extensively for many leading British comedy shows, including "Clive Anderson Talks Back," "Jack Dee's Happy Hour," "Never Mind the Buzzcocks," "2DTV," "Have I Got News For You" and "Spitting Image." He was also the co-creator and co-writer of the BBC sitcom "The Peter Principle," which starred Jim Broadbent. In addition, Burton provided additional dialogue for the clay animation hit "Chicken Run," from Aardman and DreamWorks Animation. He is currently working on the upcoming Aardman/DreamWorks Animation film "Wallace & Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit." Billy Frolick (Writer) made his directorial debut on the award-winning digital video feature "It Is What It Is," which starred Jonathan Silverman and was based on Frolick's original screenplay. Frolick's acclaimed 1995 book, What I Really Want to Do is Direct: Seven Film School Graduates Go to Hollywood, tracked seven film school graduates over three years. He is also the pseudonymous author of the book-length parodies The Philistine Prophecy, Dumpisms: The Witless Wisdom of Horace Dump, and The Ditches of Edison County, the last of which was a national bestseller and was translated into Japanese and Italian. His latest parody, The Five People You Meet in Hell, is due this spring. Frolick's journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Premiere, Movieline, Entertainment Weekly, and the Los Angeles Times. Hans Zimmer (Composer) is one of the film industry's most prolific composers, with more than 100 film scores to his credit. In 1994, he won both an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe Award for his score to the animated blockbuster "The Lion King," which also spawned one of the most successful soundtrack albums ever. Zimmer's music for "The Lion King" continues to draw applause in the award-winning stage production of the musical, which earned the 1998 Tony Award for Best Musical, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album. Zimmer has garnered six additional Academy Award® nominations, the latest for his "Gladiator" score, for which he also won a Golden Globe Award and earned a Grammy Award nomination. He has also been Academy Award®-nominated for "The Prince of Egypt," "The Thin Red Line," "As Good As It Gets," "The Preacher's Wife" and "Rain Man." Earlier this year, he earned his seventh Golden Globe nomination for his score for James L. Brooks' comedy "Spanglish." He had previously earned Golden Globe nominations for his work on "The Last Samurai," "Pearl Harbor," "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" and "The Prince of Egypt." In addition to "Madagascar," Zimmer's music will be heard this year in "The Weather Man," directed by Gore Verbinski, and the highly anticipated "Batman Begins," the score for which he co-wrote with James Newton Howard. His long list of film credits goes on to include "The Ring Two," "Pearl Harbor," "Matchstick Men," "Shark Tale," "Black Hawk Down," "The Ring," "Hannibal," "Crimson Tide," "Thelma & Louise," "Driving Miss Daisy," "Mission: Impossible 2," "A League of Their Own," "Black Rain," "Backdraft," "True Romance" and "My Beautiful Launderette." In addition to his composing work, Zimmer heads DreamWorks' film music division. His appointment marks the first time a composer has headed the music department of a major studio since the days of Dimitri Tiomkin at MGM and Alfred Newman at Twentieth Century Fox. H. Lee Peterson (Editor) previously edited the animated features "Dinosaur," "Pocahontas," "Aladdin" and "The Prince and the Pauper." He had earlier served as the second assistant editor on the animated hit "The Little Mermaid." Peterson started his career as an art department assistant on the feature "Modern Girls." He began his editing career as a music editor on the television movie "Elysian Fields." Kendal Cronkhite (Production Designer) came to PDI/DreamWorks in the company's fledgling days and served as the art director on the studio's first computer-animated film, "Antz." Prior to joining the company, she had worked as the art director on the stop-motion animated film "James and the Giant Peach" and as the assistant art director on Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas." Cronkhite received her B.F.A. from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, with a major in Illustration. Beginning her career as a freelance editorial illustrator in Canada and New York, she lent her talents to the advertising campaigns for a number of projects, including designing movie posters for such films as "Mortal Kombat" and "Clueless." Philippe Gluckman (Visual Effects Supervisor) most recently held the post of co-visual effects supervisor for the computer-animated blockbuster "Shrek 2." He had earlier been a sequence supervisor for "Shrek," after having been a co-visual effects supervisor on "Antz." Gluckman joined PDI/DreamWorks in 1994, starting as a senior animator/technical director. He worked on such projects as "Batman and Robin," "Batman Forever," "Marvin the Martian," and numerous commercials. Before coming to PDI/DreamWorks, Gluckman worked as a senior animator at Ex Machina in Paris on projects ranging from commercials to theme park rides. Gluckman began his career as a traditional 2D animator as a partner with Storyboard, and was an assistant animator at Cartoon Farm, both located in Paris. He studied at the Ecole Nationale D'Arts Appliques, Paris. Rex Grignon (Head of Character Animation) has been animating for more than two decades. A co-founder of PDI/DreamWorks' character animation group, Grignon played a major role in the creation of the Emmy Award-winning television special "The Last Halloween," "Muppet Vision 3-D," and numerous commercial spots featuring the Pillsbury Doughboy. He left PDI briefly to work as a character animator on the very first computer-animated feature, "Toy Story," and then returned to serve as a supervising animator on PDI/DreamWorks' computer-animated films "Antz" and "Shrek." Grignon was awarded a Presidential Scholarship to work and study at the New York Institute of Technology's Computer Graphics Laboratory, renowned for its pioneering work in CGI. He has taught character animation classes at Cogswell College in Sunnyvale, California, and the Academy of the Arts College in San Francisco. In addition, he has lectured at the American Film Institute, Stanford University, Sheridan College, The University of Washington, SIGGRAPH, and numerous animation festivals around the world. Ewan Johnson (Head of Layout) came to PDI/DreamWorks in 2003 after a long tenure as a supervising layout artist at Pixar. His credits include the computer-animated hits "Toy Story," "Toy Story 2," "A Bug's Life," "Monsters, Inc.," and the Oscarâ-winning blockbusters "Finding Nemo" and "The Incredibles." Before starting his career in animated features, Johnson was a software engineer in Chicago, where he helped to develop prototype digital video asset management systems. Johnson holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute in Chicago. Shannon Jeffries (Art Director) joined PDI/DreamWorks in 1996 as a visual development artist on the studio's first computer-animated film, "Antz." She later held the same post on the blockbuster hit "Shrek 2." Before coming to the studio, Jeffries was involved in many facets of the art world, including doing freelance work as a print media illustrator and furniture designer. Segueing to film, she wrote, directed and produced the award-winning animated short "Hats and Dogs." Following that, Jeffries began designing for films and has worked on several animated feature films for various studios. Jeffries earned her B.F.A. in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
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Shrek 2 - Forest 27 in. x 41 in. Buy posters at AllPosters.com Framed Mounted |
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