Discover what goes into making Telly Award and Northwest Regional Emmy award-winning animated commercials with animation director and story artist Lucas Marchi on his Cascade PBS Viewers like me commercials. Learn how 2D animation works, and how professionals approach designing and creating short films, including all the different roles and jobs artists must take on. See how story artists take scripts and ideas and develop them into heartfelt cinematic stories, how visual development artists design every color and brushstroke, and how 2D animators painstakingly hand draw every single frame from simple effects to complex dance sequences.
About the Instructor:
Lucas Marchi is a Telly and Emmy award-winning storyboard artist, 2D animator and College Instructor. He graduated from ArtCenter College of Design’s Entertainment Design department through the Animation track in 2024, and he now teaches animation classes full time at Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University. Through his freelance work, Lucas has directed and storyboarded Telly award winning and Emmy nominated commercials, and festival award winning short films.
If you have any questions please contact mgl@nwfilmforum.org