Lead instructor of De Anza's animation program, Martin McNamara has produced and/or directed dozens of animated television commercials, title sequences and educational films for studios such as Colossal Pictures and his own production company, Saga City Media. He co-produced the Nickelodeon Network pilot film for the animated series, "Rocko's Modern Life" with De Anza grad and series creator Joe Murray. Recently, he supervised advanced De Anza students, interning as character animators, on Broderbund's interactive CD, "Rugrats Storybook Adventure". Marty serves as San Francisco program director of the International Animators' Association (ASIFA) and has directed international conferences for the Society for Animation Studies, for which he writes extensively. He received a B.A. in Communication Arts (University of Notre Dame) and an M.A. in Cinema (San Francisco State University) and teaches traditional animation production, storyboarding, layout, soundtrack design and animation history. He has also served as grant writer and Project Director for numerous state and federal grant projects at De Anza, funding development of model animation curricula, statewide faculty training, student internships and public service filmmaking.

Webster Colcord has worked as a professional animator since 1987, starting in clay and puppet animation with the famous Will Vinton Studios in Portland, Oregon. Moving to California, he worked freelance for various studios including Disney and Fox, as well as a staff computer animator from 1997-2002 at PDI/ Dreamworks in Palo Alto. Webster's extensive feature animation credits include "James and the Giant Peach", "Antz", "Monkeybone", "Evolution", "Minority Report", and "Matrix: Revolutions". Webster has also produced numerous commercials and his own short films, many of which have toured with the Festival of Animation. Some of the techniques used in his creations have ranged from live action and cel animation to stop motion and computer animation. He is currently working on the "Lord Of The Rings" game series at Electronic Arts. Webster teaches De Anza's unique "Advanced Puppet Animation" course and counsels students on the benefits of traditional 3D (stop-motion) experience for a digital 3D animation career.

Joining the De Anza faculty in Fall of 2003, Van Phan had earned a BA in Psychology and Business/Economics from UCLA and an MFA in Cinema from USC. His early animated shorts, were screened at over 80 international festivals including Anima Mundi in Brazil, the Brussels Animation Festival, the World Animation Celebration and the New York Animation Festival. "Wild Card" was selected for SIGGRAPH's 1999 Electronic Theatre and won the "Big Kahuna" Award that year, while "Values" was named Best Animated Short in the 2001 Electronic Theatre. For three years, Van worked for Sony Imageworks, first training traditional animators in Maya and other digital tools, then later as a character animator. His credits there included "Stuart Little", "Harry Potter" and "Stuart Little 2". Currently, Van works at Pacific Data Images/Dreamworks as a character animator on "Shrek 2", following animating in Maya on "Sinbad". At De Anza, Van teaches Intermediate and Advanced 3D Computer Animation in Maya. He previously lectured and/or taught at Cal Arts, USC, UCLA Extension and CSU-Long Beach Extension.

As a computer animator and Animation Department Supervisor at the Industrial Light and Magic division of Lucasfilm, Wayne Gilbert has drawn on a wealth of professional experience in his teaching at De Anza. He received a diploma in Classical Animation at Sheridan College in his native Canada, later returning to teach there for ten years. Prior to joining ILM, Wayne worked as a background painter, department head and traditional animator at television giant Nelvana, served as art director at Wang Films in Taiwan and supervised creative staffing and professional development for Walt Disney Animation Canada. In addition to his work at these studios, he has created a number of independent shorts including: "Alone Ranger", "Bottoms Up", "Traffic Jam", "Chainsaw Murders", "Brotherly Love" and "Consequences". Wayne teaches the Advanced Computer Character Animation workshop along with ILM mate, Dave Sidley. His book, "Simplified Drawing for Planning Animation" has earned praise throughout the traditional and computer animation community. Wayne's extensive experience provides an invaluable resource for students preparing for the world of professional animation and seeking instruction in the nuances of character performance.

Graduating from San Francisco State's cinema program after a career in commercial printing, Dave Sidley set out to find satisfying production work in the film industry. After toiling in equipment rental houses and camera crews, he eventually abandoned live-action film and found his creative niche in computer animation. Attracted by the animator's autonomy and creative control over the image, Dave spent a year training himself in animation, using Lightwave3D on his home computer. The result of these efforts was Dave's award winning animated film, "One Lucky Night{", which won the Big Kahuna Award at the 1998 3D Design conference and earned the title of Digital Video Media Master as the best animated short at the 1999 DV Expo. This short film also served as his demo reel, and landed Dave a job as a full-time staff character animator at Industrial Light & Magic. His ILM animation credits since 1998 include: Jack Frost, The Mummy, Galaxy Quest, Rocky & Bullwinkle, E.T. (re-release), The Mummy Returns, and Star Wars Episode Two: Attack of the Clones. Equally adept with De Anza's 3D programs (Softimage and Maya) or ILM's proprietary software, Dave team-teaches the Advanced Computer Character Animation Sunday workshop along with his ILM colleague, Wayne Gilbert where they embody De Anza's principle of classical animation training in the digital age.

With a BFA in Advertising Design from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Art Education from New York University, Stan Ettinger embarked on a distinguished career as illustrator, cartoonist, graphic designer, advertising agency art director and drawing teacher. As a professional designer, his many accounts included Standard Oil, Vicks, Topps Chewing Gum, American Cyanamid, Glass Container Corporation of America, New York Life Insurance, Bazooka Gum, Agfa Film, Cheese of Holland, Mergenthaler Co., Bogen-Presto Stereo, Roses Lime Juice, Advertising Typographers' Association of America and National SemiConductor. At De Anza, Stan teaches "Figure Drawing for Animators" where he combines movement-oriented life drawing with interpretive exercises which benefit from his vast experience in cartooning and caricature.

After studying fine art at San Jose State, Dave Perry deftly applied those skills to the noble profession of carpentry. He then spent a number of years engaged in architectural design and drafting before returning to school and learning the art of traditional animation in De Anza's program. Dave went on to serve as character animator for Broderbund and Nickelodeon on "The Rugrats' Storybook Adventure" and as assistant animator at media giant Colossal Pictures on a television campaign for the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. Balancing his animation with a web design career for such clients as Hewlett-Packard and Agilent, Dave returned to De Anza as an instructor in both traditional and computer animation in the spring of 2000. His courses range from De Anza's unique "Animal Drawing for Animators" and the perspective drawing component of "Layout and Visual Development" (team-taught with Marty McNamara) to the introductory and advanced 2D computer animation courses using Flash and Toonz, respectively. In addition to his teaching, Dave has assumed the role of webmaster for the Animation Program and has contributed to the animation community as the author of MonkeyJam, a free pencil test program for the PC.

Now living on the East Coast, Sarah Fay Krom was the principal original designer of this web site. After earning a B.F.A. in drawing and computer graphics at Carnegie Mellon University, she worked as a freelance animation artist and computer graphics designer in Silicon Valley for high technology clients such as Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, IBM, Motorola, Novell and Cisco Systems. While at De Anza, Sarah designed and taught a unique series of animal and figure drawing courses specifically for animators, while working as a character animator, storyboard designer and layout artist for Broderbund, Nickelodeon and European multimedia studios. This fusion of traditional animation with digital media, interactive games and corporate web design gave her a wealth of experience that she brought to the creation of this site.

Another faculty member now residing with his family in another state, Lee Lanier developed De Anza's 3-D computer animation curriculum using Maya, taught the Maya sequence for two years and has mentored advanced student projects. Lee began his career as a Script Supervisor in Los Angeles, working on commercials, movies-of-the-week and independent features. He shifted to computer animation in 1994, landing a position at Walt Disney's Buena Vista Visual Effects. In 1996, he joined Pacifc Data Images in Palo Alto, where he served as Lead Modeler and Lead Lighter on Antz and Shrek. In his spare time, Lee produced, directed and animated two award-winning short films - "Millennium Bug" and "Mirror". Lee eventually left PDI to pursue freelance work in 2D and 3D animation and illustration. He is currently developing a 3rd short, entitled "Day Off The Dead", involving a collaboration between top animators across the country.

Additional faculty are chosen from animation studios for specialized seminars in traditional and digital production techniques. They must be committed to furthering the art of animation, nurturing students' creative visions and assisting them in perfecting their craftsmanship.