Jean has over 20 years of industry experience in graphic design, television graphics [paintbox, set design and character generator] as well as film, cartooning, animation and web design. Beginning her career in film, she created film titles for WA Palmer Films in San Francisco. Moving from film to print, she worked as a graphic designer for non profit organizations and as an art director for a third party Macintosh circuit board engineering and manufacturing company in Hayward. Yes! Macintosh and engineering! Her most recent position at University Media Services at California State University, Sacramento gave her ten years of television, animation, web design and instructional design experience. After receiving her Masters in Education; Curriculum and Instruction she was hired to create the Multimedia Art and Technology program at Cañada College in Fall 1998.

Translating traditional graphic design tools was easy with the advent of desktop publishing software and the personal computer. She began with both Mac and Windows operating systems in 1987. This was before operating systems and software had versions! She worked with the first versions of Illustrator, Pagemaker, PixelPaint, Photoshop and VideoWorks. Jean saw Pagemaker‘s battle with Quark and its eventual morphing into InDesign as well as VideoWorks and its change of ownership and name to Director and Flash.

She currently uses several software programs in her courses: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver and Flash as well as Corel Painter. “Software names are not important, they will come and go. Software will not design, designers must design.” She feels design principles are what drives successful messages; print, web or animation.

Paul Naas has been involved in animation for over 20 years. Starting out as a traditional 2D animator in the days of cel paints and shooting on film, he got some early professional experience while still in school, working on station IDs for MTV. From there, he went on to create his own independent films, which have been shown in touring festivals all over the country.

Professionally, he has worked in studios large and small, and has animated on projects as diverse as games, TV spots, interactive web media, and location-based entertainment. Paul was one of the first instructors hired by the Disney Institute in Florida, and spent over 2 years teaching animation technique to Walt Disney World guests and employees. While at Disney, Paul worked on public service announcements for Unicef's Campaign for Children's Rights that were screened at the prestigious Annecy animation festival, as well as broadcast in countries all over the world.

Paul first got into 3D computer animation - the subject he currently teaches at Cañada - over 14 years ago and is also experienced in tools such as Flash and After Effects. Despite his diverse tool knowledge, Paul believes the most important tool for any successful animator to have is a solid grounding in traditional art skills and animation theory and technique.

Expressing lifelong interests in both art and film, Roger Royce attended Loyola Marymount University where he earned a B.A. degree in Animation and a minor in Studio Art. After college, Roger moved to the Bay Area where he currently works full time as an animator/artist at a toy company and also as a part-time faculty member at Cañada College.

Working closely with big names like Mattel and Hasbro, Roger has lent his artistic talent to several top rated toys, including “Walkin’ Talkin’ McQueen,” “U-Dance” and “D-Rex.”

At Cañada, Roger teaches both the Introduction to Storyboard (mART 405) and Digital Animation 1: Flash (mART 379) courses. If anyone has any questions about these classes, please be sure to send an email to roycer@smccd.edu.

When his schedule permits, Roger also offers his skills to the freelance industry, having worked for companies like Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Cisco, ClonTech, NetApp, Apache and Blinc.

Patrick Foster has been a graphic designer for almost 15 years, and a specialist in web design for nearly 11. He's been responsible for sites for such varied clients as a public television station, a national restaurant chain, and a university, among many, many others. He's not sure why people write bios in third person, but he's sure he supposed to.

Carlos Chapeton has been Creative Director and the co-founder of Evolving Vision Media since its inception. The company has been involved in many web and graphic design projects and continues to thrive successfully. Additionally he has worked as a 3D Artist at Expresso Fitness in Sunnyvale for three years. Carlos currently teaches mART 432 3D Environments & Hard Surface Modeling.

Domenic Allen been in the field of computer graphics for more than 20 years, beginning with user interface design. He's worked at companies of all sizes, from startups with only 14 people to international multi-billion dollar corporations. Consumers have seen his engineering work in video editing tools made by Pinnacle Systems, and effects in movies and trailers from Pixar Animation Studios.

He is a current member of ACM Siggraph and was a founding member and president of the Silicon Valley Professional Chapter of Siggraph

His film credits include:
• Finding Nemo
• The Incredibles
• Cars
• Ratatouille
• Wall-E
• Up (in production)

Zachary James Watkins studied composition with Janice Giteck, Jarrad Powell, Robin Holcomb and Jovino Santos Neto at Cornish College. In 2006, Zachary received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College where he studied with Chris Brown, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran and Pauline Oliveros. Zachary has received commissions from Cornish College of The Arts, The Microscores Project, the Beam Foundation, Somnubutone Radio Series free103point9.org, sfsound and the Seattle Chamber Players. His 2006 composition Suite for String Quartet was awarded the Paul Merritt Henry Prize for Composition.

Zachary performed at the 2007 Bent Festival in Los Angeles and the 2006 International Computer Music Conference and has presented work at the 10th Annual Music For People and Thingamajigs Festival as well as the second Biennial SJ01 Global Festival of Arts on the Edge. In 2008, Zachary premiered a new multi-media work entitled Country Western as part of the Meridian Gallery's Composers in Performance Series that received grants from the The American Music Center and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Zachary designed the sound and composed music for the plays "I have loved Strangers" produced by Just Theatre, which was listed "top ten of 2007" in the East Bay Express and the 8th Annual ReOrient Theatre Festival.

His sound art work entitled Third Floor::Designed Obsolescence, "spoke as a metaphor for the breakdown of the dream of technology and the myth of our society's permanence," review by Susan Noyes Platt in the Summer 05 issue of ARTLIES. ITCH, Walrus Press and the New York Miniature Ensemble have published the graphic score found print piece no.1. During October of 2006, Zachary was an artist in residence at the Espy Foundation.