Developing Digital Short Films (Voices that Matter)
Sherri Sheridanis the Creative Director at Minds Eye Media   (http://www.mindseyemedia.com) in San Francisco, where she spends her time   creating all sorts of digital projects. Over the years she has directed,   produced, animated, written, and designed projects for a wide range of clients,   including Fortune 500 companies, major record labels, TV/cable stations,   feature-film studios, advertising agencies, and video game companies. She is the   co-author of Maya 2 Character Animation (New Riders, 1999).Currently, Sherri is creating a series of international Developing Digital Short   Films Workshops based on the ideas in this book. She is also writing,   developing, and directing several original scripts for digitally enhanced shorts   and feature films.Over the years, Sherri has helped inspire thousands of graduate computer   animation students from around the world, helping them to tell their own stories   using their favorite digital tools, at the Academy of Art College in San   Francisco. While teaching these students, she started developing the foundation   for a unique step-by-step digital visual storytelling process, which has grown   into this wonderful book.Before founding Minds Eye Media in 1995, she helped develop Shockwave Technology   at Macromedia, and created the first Shockwave movies on the web. Sherri has a   BA in English from U.C. Berkeley and went to San Francisco State to study   interactive design and computer animation for her graduate work.