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Francis Glebas

Director, Teacher and Creative Consultant

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Credits/Projects include: Curious George II, Head of Story - Tom and Jerry Fast and Furrier, Space Chimps, Bratz, My Little Pony, Gone Daddy Gone Music Video, Piglet’s Big Movie, Fantasia 2000’s Pomp and Circumstance, Fox and the Hound II, The Lasseter Tribute for the Visual Effects Awards 2006, Pocahantas, Aladdin, The Lion King, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Dinosaur and Treasure Planet, Byron Boulder, ahead of his time

Commercial Credits include: CBS Children’s Hour, Record World, Olympus Fiber Optic Medical Scopes, South Oaks Hospital

Work Experience: Walt Disney Feature Animation, Universal, Warner Brothers, Vanguard Animation, Mike Young Productions, SD Entertainment, Gnarls Barkley, Z.com, N.Y.I.T CBS, Small Ad Company, UCLA, Walt Disney Imagineering, GM, Z.com, Los Alamos Labs, Woodbury University and N.Y.I.T. and Gnomon School of Visual Effects

Education: BFA, Art Center College

Awards: Pratt Cinegraphics Award, Sweet Briar Film Festival Award, Kodak Teenage Movie Award

Education: Phd. in Fantasy from University of my Imagination specializing in Lacanian Pyschoanalysis Masters of Communication Arts from N.Y.I.T. graduating at the head of his class. Partial Masters of Business Administration from N.Y.I.T., which he left unfinished to work for Disney. Bachelors of Fine Arts in filmmaking from Pratt Institute Francis created the Walt Disney Department of Storytelling, Magic and Narrative Research to explore movie storytelling. Francis is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Visual Effects Society and the Animation Guild

Publications: Directing the Story for Focal Press. Due out Fall 2008 The Fundamentals of Classical Animation

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