Nancy Beiman
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Nancy Beiman is a director, character designer, teacher, and animator. She is recognized as the second woman to be credited on a Disney film (although there were many women before her work on Disney film). She has taught animation at Savannah College of Art and Design
, and taught at Rochester Institute of Technology
, School of Film & Animation until 2008. She now teaches at Sheridan Institute's Animation department in Canada.
Upon graduating from high school, she was offered a scholarship to be part of the inaugural class of the Character Animation program at CalArts. Her classmates included the likes John Lasseter
, Jerry Rees
, John Musker
, Tim Burton
, and Brad Bird
. After CalArts, unlike many of her classmates, she was not offered a job at Disney because, as she stated, of "the very conservative policies in place at Disney's at the time"http://madcartoonist.blogspot.com/2005/05/russians-are-interviewing.html#links. She went to New York to work at Jack Zander
's Animation Parlour.
Savannah College of Art and Design
SCAD, the Savannah College of Art and Design, is a private, accredited and degree-granting university with locations in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, Hong Kong, and Lacoste, France.-History:...
, and taught at Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology
The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located within the town of Henrietta in metropolitan Rochester, New York, United States...
, School of Film & Animation until 2008. She now teaches at Sheridan Institute's Animation department in Canada.
Upon graduating from high school, she was offered a scholarship to be part of the inaugural class of the Character Animation program at CalArts. Her classmates included the likes John Lasseter
John Lasseter
John Alan Lasseter is an American animator, director and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is also currently the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering....
, Jerry Rees
Jerry Rees
Jerry W. Rees is an animator and director best known for the 1987 Emmy-nominated animated film The Brave Little Toaster. He supervised and helped create many of the visual effects for the cult classic Tron, and is also a sculptor and fine artist....
, John Musker
John Musker
John Musker is an American animation director. Along with Ron Clements, he makes up the duo of one of the Disney animation studio's leading director teams.-Life and career:...
, Tim Burton
Tim Burton
Timothy William "Tim" Burton is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet...
, and Brad Bird
Brad Bird
Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird is an Academy Award-winning American director, voice actor, animator and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles and Ratatouille . He also adapted and directed the critically acclaimed 2D animated 1999 Warner Brothers...
. After CalArts, unlike many of her classmates, she was not offered a job at Disney because, as she stated, of "the very conservative policies in place at Disney's at the time"http://madcartoonist.blogspot.com/2005/05/russians-are-interviewing.html#links. She went to New York to work at Jack Zander
Jack Zander
Jack Zander was an American animator whose career lasted from the "golden age" of theatrical animation into the 1980s.-Biography:Jack Zander was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan...
's Animation Parlour.