About the Author

Tony Mullen, Ph.D., has a broad background in CG-related work. He currently teaches in the Department of Computer Science at Tsuda College in Tokyo, in which his courses have included modeling and animation using the Blender open-source 3D software package and courses on the Python programming language (the language used for scripting in Blender). He has worked as a newspaper cartoonist, illustrator, animator, computer programmer, researcher, and university lecturer.

As a freelance animator, Mullen has created animations for several independent filmmakers and for the Jido Kanji educational software project. As an independent filmmaker himself, he worked on several short films, including the award-winning Super-8 short The Devices of Gustav Braüstache, Bachelor of Science (co-writer), and the recently completed 16 mm live action/stop motion animated film Gustav Braüstache and the Auto-Debilitator (co-writer and co-director with Rob Cunningham, lead animator), which is currently in submission at several international film festivals. Mullen is currently completing work on an animated short of his own in Blender.