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 | Sherri Sheridan Creative Director, Minds Eye Media Sherri Sheridan is the Creative Director at Minds Eye Media in San Francisco, where she spends her time creating all sorts of digital projects. She directs, produces, animates, writes and designs projects for a wide range of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, major record labels, TV/broadcast stations, feature film studios, advertising agencies and video game companies. On April 12, 2004 Sherri's latest book "Developing Digital Short Films" was published by New Riders, a division of Pearson, the largest educational publisher in the world. Currently, she is creating a series of international Developing Digital Short Films Workshops based on the ideas in her new book. She is also writing, developing and directing several original scripts for digitally enhanced shorts and feature films. Sherri is the co-author of Maya 2 Character Animation (New Riders, 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. She has written several articles for DV Magazine and 3D Design, and speaks at industry conferences throughout the year. 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 College in San Francisco. While teaching these students, she started developing the foundation for a unique step-by-step digital visual storytelling process, which grew into the new book "Developing Digital Short Films". This latest book will be used as textbook in film and animation schools all over the world. Before founding 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. You can send Sherri an email by clicking here. Please type "MEM INFO" in the subject line so that I know your email is not junkmail. |
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