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John Baker
Acting Chair: Animation/Digital Media Department
Kansas City Art Institute
www.kcai.edu/academics/majors/animation
I teach animation and digital media courses at
KCAI and I am a freelance animator and visual effects artist at Baker’s Dozen.
Kamau Bilal
Lead editor/DP /director
Chimaeric
www.chimaeric.com / www.kamaubilal.com/
I am the lead avid/FCP editor at Chimaeric.
Bruce Branit
Director and Visual Effects Supervisor
Branit FX
www.branitfx.com/
I use computer and digital technologies to tell
stories that otherwise could not be captured with a camera.
Michelle Davidson
Writer/Producer/Actor
KC Women in Film & TV (president) CinemaKC
(Host/Executive Producer)
As a filmmaker, I tell stories through various digital narratives, including short films and web series. This unique perspective allows my work to be seen around the world on the Internet via Vimeo and Youtube. In filmmaking and television production, we use digital cameras, digital voice recorders and non-linear editing equipment.
Charles N. Davis
Facilitator, Media of the Future Program
University of Missouri — Mizzou Advantage Program
mizzouadvantage.missouri.edu/media/
I teach students emerging forms of storytelling.
Aaron Evanson
Group Creative Director
VML
www.vml.com
Story telling in digital is a must across the board. Digital cannot be used as the answer. It's merely a tool like any other medium in our business. The future of digital marketing relies on cross pollination of the story telling and the tech guru.
Stephen Goldblatt
Principal / Creative Director
Bazillion Pictures
www.bazillionpictures.com/
As an animation company, digital storytelling is at the core of absolutely everything we do. For 18 years we have relied on digital storytelling using a wide variety of techniques. One of our greatest loves is character animation and we have been fortunate to have created multiple characters over the years all with story driving the 'digital' heartbeat of each and every one of them.
Rob Grace
Artist
Bazillion Pictures
www.bazillionpictures.com
I started my career as an illustrator before it was necessary to mention that I used “traditional media,” when creating my paintings and drawings for advertisements, story books and magazines, including pictures of the Pleasant Company's American Girls Samantha series.
Finding I enjoyed using computers to do my work more that canvas and brush, I became a full time CG artist twenty years ago, producing work for commercial, educational, industrial and entertainment projects. I was one of the artists who worked to create the computer game Riven, the Sequel to Myst in 1997.
Ron Green
Government Resource Programs Manager
Hallmark Cards, Inc.
www.hallmark.com
I am working with a Hallmark team, Mizzou's Media of the Future program and several community-based partners to establish the Mid-America Center for Digital Storytelling.
Anthony Ladesich
Owner/Director
Mile Deep Films & Television LLC
www.miledeepfilms.com/
I use digital tools every day to tell stories and make my living. From the cameras I shoot on to the computers and software I use to put it all together... My life is filled with digital storytelling.
Sahil Lavingia
Founder & CEO
Gumroad
gumroad.com
Designing Gumroad is very much like telling a story. So is hiring.
Jay Luna
Producer
Luna Moving Images, LLC
landing.lunamovingimages.com/
I'm producing animated digital books for the iPad. I also produce movies and advertisements with the help of digital
media.
Peter Martin
Consulting Artist
Hallmark Cards, Inc.
http://www.hallmark.com/online/asteroid-andy/
I created an animated character property called Asteroid Andy for Hallmark. They are little animated shorts that feature children doing a mix of ad-lib and scripted dialogue. The property tries to engage kids on their level with as much humor and interactivity as I can provide. I play on themes kids are familiar with like frustration and weirdness of "first time" experiences.
Shawn McClaren
Hallmark Coordinating Producer
Hallmark Hall of Fame/Hallmark
www.hallmark.com/online/hall-of-fame
We are involved in digital storytelling through the streaming of our Hallmark Hall Of Fame movies and the new pursuits we are engaged in concerning Hallmark characters like Hoops & YoYo, Jingle the Husky Pup, and Rainbow Brite.
Maria Meyers
Network Builder
UMKC Innovation Center/KCSourceLink
www.kcsourcelink.com/
We tell the stories of innovative ideas, passionate entrepreneurs and the dedicated people that help them grow into successful companies through videos.
Martin Mini
Senior VP, Marketing Communication
Kansas City Area Development Council We deliver impactful messaging direct to our clients’ desktops around the world. Digital storytelling is one strategic element in our marketing/branding platform for the KC region. We communicate key assets through the personal, human stories of creative KC companies and individuals. DS focus is largely on KC livability and culture, as we compete with other US cities to win new jobs, attract new capital investment, recruit talented workers and upgrade our national image.
Chris O’Connor
Partner
Liquid 9
liquid9.tv/
At Liquid 9 we don't tell digital stories. We tell stories. That's it. Sometimes it's using digital tools, sometimes it's old-fashioned conversations and the spoken word. Regardless, we have always felt strongly that if you focus on "digital" you are a new technology away from being irrelevant. If you focus on the storytelling, you can create art expressing central truths regardless of the medium.
Patrick Rea
Writer, Director, Producer
SenoReality Pictures
http://www.senoreality.com/
I use digital storytelling to create short and feature films.
Butch Rigby
Owner
Screenland Theatres
www.screenland.com
We run a tremendous amount of local and international short films at our theatres. We were the first circuit to feature the Oscar Nominated short films and we are the home (at our Crown Center Location) to the CinemaKC project. It is a program of local digitally produced films.
Teri Rogers
President/Owner
T2 + Back Alley Films
www.t2.tv/
Since we are a video production, company, we have been digital storytellers since the beginning. In the 90's, we referred to ourselves in promotional material and company descriptions as "video storytellers". Since 2005, we have described what we do on our website and other descriptive materials as "visual storytellers". Since what we do is combine an array of digital elements to tell a story -- whether that is video, photography, graphics, animation, music, narration, etc. -- we are now referring to our services as digital storytelling.
Jaime Sanchez
Multimedia Design Director of MediaMint, Hallmark's multimedia studio
Hallmark Cards, Inc.
http://www.hallmark.com
I direct the work of 48 digital storytelling professionals in producing a wide range of Hallmark's digital media solutions. I was an early pioneer in shifting from conventional to digital artwork in our company, and I have worked to advance multimedia programs at Hallmark.
Diana Stuart
Creative Director/Creative VP for Hallmark Properties
Hallmark Cards, Inc.
http://www.hallmark.com/online/hoopsandyoyo/
Within Hallmark Properties we use digital storytelling in a variety of ways, featuring our Hallmark-owned characters, from ecards to TV interstitials and TV specials we use storytelling to bring laughs and great shared moments to our audience.
Marcelo Vergara
President/CEO
Propaganda3, Inc.
www.propaganda3.com
Telling stores are part of everything we try to do for ourselves and our clients. We use software as the platform to deliver those stories.
