FEATURED ANIMATORS, MAKE-UP & DESIGN ENGINEERS - Place to discover the stories that illustrates the dreams, troubles, goals and passions of the Asian Pacific American communities!

ANIMATORS

SANDRA CHANG - The art and imagination of Sandra Chang expresses a mixture of powerful sexuality, social comment, a touch of sarcasm, and at the very least, a touch of her own femininity - as seen through her most popular characters - Dagny and Hendrix
DOUG CHIANG - Oscar winning animator
PETER CHUNG - Seoul-based Korean animator, Peter Chung, whose credits include "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," "Rugrats," "Aeon Flux" and commercials for Nike Air, Diet Pepsi and AT&T, wrote and directed the segment entitled, "Matriculated."
GORO MIYAZAKI - The son of Hayao Miyasaki studied forestry at Shinshu University and started a career in landscape design. In 1998 he took on responsibility for the design of the Ghibli Museum, a theme park the studio was building in a rare splash of green space in a Tokyo suburb and became the museum's managing director in 2001. After his father couldn't do "Earthsea" book series, Ghibli's powerful producer Toshio Suzuki handed the project to Goro, who had started to hang around animation study groups and present ideas of his own.
HAYAO MIYAZAKI - often reviewed, widely acclaim and admired animator from Japan starting with "Princess Mononoke," (1997) to Howl's Moving Castle (2005).
RUBEN AQUINO - The Okinawa-born artist incorporates his formal training in architecture to have a unique perspective on animation to rank among the top animators and draftsmen working today. He has an exceptional balance of high quality, superbly acted animation and astounding speed made him capable of supervising two characters simultaneously in his 20+ years at Disney.
ISAO TAKAHATA - longtime collaborator of Hayao Miyazaki and co-founder of Studio Ghibli. Although his films contain mature subject material that can be construed as offensive, Takahata speaks a kind of cinematic language that is at once compelling to an 8-year-old and an 80-year old.

VISUAL EFFECTS

JEROME CHEN - Visual Effects Supervisor for films such as Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2 (sequel), Jode Foster's Contact, Dean Devlin's Godzilla while using Maya and Silicon Graphics Octane 2 visual worstations.
ELLEN POON - Visual Effects Supervisor for many high-profiled films

DESIGN ENGINEERS

TAKUO MIYAGISHIMA - Oscar-winning design engineer (2005) and Senior Vice-President of Engineering at Panavision

PROGRAMMERS

JULIAN FONG - programmer at Pixar

MAKE-UP

CHARLES GEMORA - Filipino-American was Hollywood's "King of the Gorillas" (Make-up Artist / Mask Maker) from the 1920s to 1950s. His best-known work was the 1953 classic The War of the Worlds where he designed and built the famous martian suit and played the martian himself.

THEATER DESIGN

EUGENE LEE - won two Tony Awards for his work on Broadway (Leonard Bernstein's "Candide") and Gershwin Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd."

MAKING MODELS

WAH MING CHANG - Worked for Disney, help make models for the animators for "Pinocchio and was the youngest member of Disney's Effects and Models Department

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