Sherri Sheridan

Creative Director/Producer

Sherri is the leading world expert on teaching story to digital filmmakers and animators with her books, classes and workshops. She is also the Creative Director at Minds Eye Media in San Francisco where she directs, produces, animates, writes and designs projects for a wide range of clients including TV/broadcast stations, record labels, feature film studios, advertising agencies, Fortune 500 companies and video game projects. Recently she spent some time working at Sequoia Capital helping with the launch of YouTube and Meebo, then went on to start MyFlik.com "Your Online Movie Studio."

What is missing in user generated content for digital filmmaking and Web 2.0? There seems to be a huge gap in visual storytelling abilities between the movie studios and the little guys. MyFlik.com is an online microbudget movie studio and free film school focusing on great storytelling that helps develop, fund, produce, market and distribute short and feature digital films, TV shows and animations.

She is the author of "Developing Digital Short Films" published by New Riders/Peachpit in April of 2004, a division of Pearson, the largest educational publisher in the world. This innovative new book is now being used as a textbook in hundreds of film and animation schools all over the world and translated into several languages, including Russian, Spanish and Chinese.

Sherri just finished a 22+ hour DVD class based on the book called "Writing A Great Script Fast". This new workshop walks you through a fast and easy step-by-step process for a writing a great script with lots of emotional arcs, depth and suspense. A teaching tour throughout China, India, Canada, Europe and the US is taking place during late 2007 and 2008. Check out the new CG magazine article on Sherri from July 2007.

Several US school systems are now in the process of integrating the new DVD workshop and the DDSF book as their official story class materials.

The Minds Eye Media dream team are also now in the preproduction phase of their new 3D feature film "The Bigfoot Shamans" based on the example story from the DDSF book.

Listen to Sherri's new radio interview on the show "If These Walls Could Talk" with the subject "What's Hiding in Your Favorite TV Shows?" Find out what you’re REALLY watching when you watch TV by joining Katherine Morris, the Setting Shrink, Emmy-award winning President of the Writers Guild of America, west, Patric M. Verrone, and Sherri Sheridan, Creative Director at Minds Eye Media, and the creator of animations and digital films, for a rare in-depth discussion of the making of television shows.

Sherri is the co-author of the first big Maya book "Maya 2 Character Animation" published by New Riders in 1999. In 1998 she won the "Best Music Video Award" for "Beyond", by Geffen's Young American Primitive, at the World Animation Celebration in Pasadena. "Beyond" was one of the first all digital music videos created for a major record label and world premiered at ResFest Cinema Electronica in 1997. She has written several articles for DV Magazine and 3D Design, and speaks at industry conferences.

Over the years, Sherri has helped inspire thousands of graduate computer animation students from around the world to tell their own stories using their favorite digital tools at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. While teaching these students she started developing the foundation for a unique step-by-step digital visual storytelling process that eventually grew into the new book "Developing Digital Short Films".

Before joining Minds Eye Media in 1995, she helped develop Shockwave Technology at Macromedia and created the first Shockwave movies on the web. Sherri has a BA in English from U.C. Berkeley and went to San Francisco State to study Interactive Design and Computer Animation for her graduate work.

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