Dr. Stuart S. Sumida

Recent and Upcoming Presentations and Activities

 

(Click on the Items for Links to Websites Where Available.)

 

Dr. Sumida is a frequent speaker at film festivals, schools, colleges, universities, and art schools. In addition to speaking at motion picture studios, he has lectured at the Art Institute of Pittsburg, Columbus College of Art and Design, National Science Teachers Association meetings, the Ohio State supercomputing center, University of Texas at Dallas Animation, and others. Below are a sampling of his current activities and upcoming presentations.

 

4-7 May 2010

FMX

Stuttgart, Germany

"The Importance of 'Old-fashioned' Science to Modern Digital Animation:  Anatomical Principles in Character Design, Rigging, and Animation"

Click here for the FMX website

 

11 February 2010

Animex International Film Festival, Teesside University

Middlesbrough, England.

“Animasaurus rex:  Dinosaurs and Dragons in Animation, and a sneak peak at DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon”  and

“Skeletal Anatomy for Animators and Riggers” WORKSHOP

Click here for the Animex website.

See the bottom of this page for an available download of images from Dr. Sumida’s 2010 Animex workshop presentation.

 

  8 February 2009

Animex International Film Festival, Teesside University

Middlesbrough, England.

“The Biology of Bolt”  and

“Animal Locomotion for Animators” WORKSHOP

Click here for the Animex website.

See the bottom of this page for an available download of images from Dr. Sumida’s 2009 Animex workshop presentation.

 

6 February 2008

Animex International Film Festival, Teesside University

Middlesbrough, England.

The Rats in Ratatouille (with Mark Walsh)

Click here for the Animex website.

 

5 January 2006

Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Media Relations Panel

Orlando, Florida

“Integrating Comparative Animal Anatomy in Art, Film, and Theme Park Engineering”

Click here for the SICB Meeting website.

 

8 February 2006

Animex International Film Festival, Teesside University

Middlesbrough, England.

“Animal and Human Anatomy for Animators” WORKSHOP

Click here for the Animex website.

 

9 February 2006

Animex International Film Festival, Teesside University

Middlesbrough, England

“The Importance of Anatomy to Animation and Digital Special Effects.”

Click here for the Animex website.

See the bottom of this page for an available download of images from Dr. Sumida’s 2006 Animex presentation.

 

21 April 2006

RedStick International Film Festival

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

“The Anatomy of the Chronicles of Narnia.”

Click here for the RedStick website.

 

6-7 April 2006

Walt Disney Imagineering

Orlando, Florida

“Expedition Everest” Press Junket

Click here for the Expedition Everest website.

 

7 May 2006

National Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting

Anaheim, California; Shell Oil Keynote Speaker

“From Bones and Stones to Balloons and Toons: Why you need Anatomy’s Old Dog to do the New Tricks of Motion Picture Special Effects”

Click here for the NSTA website.

 

13 May 2006

Southern California Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Plenary Speaker

Pepperdine University, Malibu, California

“Anatomy, Animation, Science, and Special Effects: Integrating Science and the Arts”

Click here for the SCAS Meeting website.

 

 

ANIMEX 2006 PRESENTATION: Click here to access a download of Dr. Sumida’s 2006 Animex presentation. The download includes many, but not all of the images that may have been a part of the presentation. (A number of copyrighted images cannot be included.) You will need Adobe Acrobat to view the document.

 

[DOWNLOAD – PART I]

 

[DOWNLOAD – PART II]

 

ANIMATION ANATOMY AND LOCOMOTION:  Click here to access images that were used in teaching animal locomotion at the Animex Film
Festival 2009.  You will need Adobe Acrobat to view the image document.

 

[ LOCOMOTION IMAGE DOWNLOAD ]

 

[ LOCOMOTION REFERENCES ]

 

SKELETONS FOR ANIMATORS AND RIGGERS:  Click here to access images that were used in teaching animal locomotion at the Animex Film
Festival 2010 Workshop.  You will need Adobe Acrobat to view the image document.

 

[ SKELETONS FOR ANIMATORS/RIGGERS IMAGE DOWNLOAD ]

 

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