Stuart Sumida
Biology Professor & Animal and Human Anatomical Consultant
Stuart Sumida is a biologist and paleontologist who earned his bachelors and doctoral degrees from UCLA, and later did postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago.??He is now a professor of Biology at the California State University campus in San Bernardino.??He studies animal structure, function, and evolution; he has written three books and nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications. He has worked as an animal and human anatomical consultant to animation, VFX, and game studios for over 25 years, first working with Walt Disney Feature Animation on?Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, and others.??Since then he has worked with DreamWorks, SONY ImageWorks, DreamQuest, PIXAR, Blue Sky, MPC, FrameStore, Double Negative, and ILM, Guerrilla, Blizzard, RockSteady, and Creative Assembly Games, and Walt Disney Imagineering.??He has worked on over 60 feature films, including the first and last?Harry Potter?films, the?How to Train Your Dragon?films,?Life f Pi,?Ratatouille, the first?Guardians of the Galaxy, Greatest Showman, Jumanji, Zootopia,?Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, and others. Most recently he’s received screen credit for his work on?Abominable?with DreamWorks and on?Soul?with Pixar. Upcoming projects include Spirit Riding Free with DreamWorks, and Season Three of His Dark Materials with FrameStore.
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Events featuring Stuart Sumida
Animal structure for animators and VFX Artists: from real life to the critical shapes found in animated creatures
Stuart Sumida takes the basics of animal construction based on diet, movement and behavior and summarizes them for and with the workshop participants. Then, based on joint workshops developed with DreamWorks Feature Animation, pinpoints specific body shapes, limb shapes and lines, and facial components that must be emphasized to sell the character, or which may be simplified without losing the audience's suspension of disbelief.
This is the first public offering of this workshop outside the DreamWorks studios.
9.30am-12.30pm
100 places
£15.00
The anatomy and diversity of Zootropolis
Stuart Sumida joins us to discuss the underlying anatomy of the characters in Disney's Oscar-winning animated feature Zootropolis and how animal characters and human postures were melded to generate the incredible diversity of characters in the film.
Animex AVFX