Name Nancy Beiman | ||
Education California Institute of the Arts Books Animated Performance: Bringing Imaginary Animal, Human and Fantasy Characters to Life | ||
Nancy beiman pitches animated short the pet wants your dinner
Nancy Beiman is a director, character designer, teacher, and animator. She attended the Character Animation program at CalArts.
Contents
Prepare To Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts
Animation
In 1986 Beiman cofounded Caged Beagle Productions with business partner Dean Yeagle. She then moved to Berlin, Germany where she directed and animated for Gerhard Hahn Film Productions. In 1989 she was a supervising animator at Steven Spielberg's Amblin' studio in London.
Beiman joined the Walt Disney company as a supervising animator and development artist for A Goofy Movie (1995), Hercules (1997) and Treasure Planet (2002).
Nancy Beiman was also served as animator for the 1987 movie The Brave Little Toaster, the 1988 TV Movie Snoopy: The Musical, the 1990 movie Jetsons: The Movie and the 1994 movie Asterix Conquers America.
Teaching
Beiman currently teaches storyboard at Sheridan College's Animation department in Canada. Beiman previously taught animation at Savannah College of Art and Design, and taught animation, character design, layout, storyboard and gesture drawing at Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Film & Animation from 2004 to 2008.
Books
Beiman is the author of two books on animation acting and storyboard: Prepare to Board! and Animated Performance. Her interviews with animation artists appeared in Cartoonist Profiles magazine from 1982 to 1995.
Awards
Beiman was awarded a Golden Pencil for outstanding teaching at the 2D Or Not 2D Animation Festival in 2007. In 1984 she was awarded with the NCS Division Award in the field of Feature Animation.