About the Author

Andy Beane is an animation artist who has been teaching and working in the field since 2002. He currently oversees the animation major at Ball State University in Indiana and previously taught animation at the Art Institute of California–Orange County. His production experience includes a children’s television show pilot with Xzault Studio, “Coming Undone” music video, and Barnyard from Paramount Pictures. He wrote curriculum for the Autodesk Animation Academy 2010 and is also a board member of the MG Collective, an Indiana-based motion graphics and animation community group. He has an MFA in computer animation from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.