Lecture: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Q&A: 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.
About the Speaker
Chris Bailey is Director/Producer for Warner Bros Animation with 30 years experience in traditional feature animation, CG character animation and live action. His career began as an animator at Walt Disney Feature Animation and grew into directing features, television series, shorts and theme park ride films.
Bailey’s feature animation credits include Disney’s, Oliver & Company, The Little Mermaid, Rescuers Down Under and The Lion King. Bailey was nominated for an Academy Award for directing the Disney short, Runaway Brain starring Mickey Mouse.
His CG Animation supervision credits include X-Men II, Eragon, Hocus Pocus, Disney’s Mighty Joe Young, Garfield I & II, Alvin and the Chipmunks I & II and Hop.
For TV, Bailey was the Supervising Director for Kevin Smith’s animated CLERKS as well as the Director/Producer of Disney’s Emmy Award winning, Kim Possible.
Bailey’s theme park credits include directing Disney’s, It’s Tough to be a Bug (based on the feature file A Bug’s Life). He also directed Universal Studios’ theme park attraction, Minion Mayhem, winning two awards—ASIFA’S Annie Award as well as the celebrated Visual Effects Society Award for Best Special Venue Project.
Other projects include directing animation for the award winning rock video Opposites Attract with Paula Abdul. Bailey has also assisted with visual and story development for Disney TV, 21st Century Fox and Warner Bros. Bailey’s personal short film and comic book character Major Damage has won several film festival awards and an Eisner.
About Art of Tech
Art of Tech is a speaker series hosted by the Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex at Miami Dade College which empowers, elevates and inspires innovation within the growing digital technologies industry. The speaker series brings together a wide spectrum of executive level professionals in the areas of Computer Animation, Gaming, Visual Effects, Motion Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality.
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