Mike Wellins has been an artist and garage filmmaker since age 8. He studied Art, English, Computer Animation and film and video production at California State University, Chico.
Mike is a freelance writer,
director, filmmaker. Mike is also a director for Laika
(formerly Will Vinton Studios) in Portland, Oregon.
Clients
and companies:
Walt Disney Feature Animation, ABC TV, MTV, Nickelodeon,
Warner Brothers TV, Fox TV, Hanna Barbera, Cartoon Network, the Sci-fi
Channel, IFC, Sony Playstation, Special Olympics, Kraft, Hawaiian Punch,
Insurance.com, Pringles, Arizona Clean Elections
Spots and shows:
The Powerpuff Girls, The PJs, Frosted Miniwheats, The
Tacobell 9s, Alltel Wireless, Kikkoman, Mirinda, Bubbletape, War of
the Monsters, Legend of Dragoon, ABC Cheap Cinema Theatre, NFL Blitz
2000, Ready to Rumble, Syphon Filter, Almond Joy and the
M&Ms
Awards and festivals:
The 3rd
Animation Celebration, 2001 Sundance Festival, Spike and Mike's festival
and Sick and twisted, Gold and Silver Plaques from the Chicago Int'l
festival, 2007 Telly, 2005 Hiroshima International Festival, An
ASIFA Annie in 2000, AWN Spot of the year, 2001, Don Belding
Award, Siggraph, Ottawa, Chicago Underground Festival, The 33rd NW Film
and Video festival, Sacramento Film festival, The Utah Film festival, The
Humboldt International Film Festival, The Portland International Short
Film Festival. The 60 second film festival.
Mike has also lectured at
Siggraph, Nike, The Game Developer's conference and the Ottawa
International Animation festival on directing and storytelling for
animation. On this topic Mike has published a textbook in
2005,
Storytelling Through Animation, widely available through Thomson Learning and Charles River Media.
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