Name Samantha Youssef | ||
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Occupation Founder & Artistic Director of Studio Technique Known for Character AnimatorAnimation Director | ||
HAND DRAWN Extended Interview #1 - Disney animator Samantha Youssef
Samantha Youssef is a Canadian character animator and animation director. She has worked in both feature films and video games for Walt Disney Animation, Filmax, and Ubisoft.
Contents
- HAND DRAWN Extended Interview 1 Disney animator Samantha Youssef
- Movement form book figure drawing interview with samantha youssef
- Career
- Recognition
- Filmography
- References
Movement form book figure drawing interview with samantha youssef
Career
Samantha Youssef graduated from Sheridan College where she majored in Animation.
She is the Artistic Director and founder of Studio Technique, an artistic production and training studio in Montreal focused on feature film and video game animation. Samantha Youssef was a character animator for The Walt Disney Company, and has also worked for Ubisoft Entertainment, Filmax Animation, and Yowza! Animation. She is also responsible for the artistic training of many Montreal video game studios, such as BioWare, Electronic Arts, Visceral Games and Ubisoft Montreal.
She is the creator of The Youssef Drawing Syllabus.
Recognition
Youssef was one of Wired Magazine’s Sexiest Geeks of 2009 and 2010. She was also one of MSN techno’s top sexiest geeks. According to her Wired geek nomination, she is a fan of J. R. R. Tolkien, Star Wars and World of Warcraft.
She was also featured in Chatelaine (magazine) as Miss Chatelaine in 2011.
Youssef was selected as an animation jury member in the Canadian Interactive Academy for the Canadian Game Development Talent Awards.
Youssef's animated short film La Fuga Grande (The Great Escape) was an award winner at the Toronto International Film Festival, and has been showcased at other film festivals in Canada.