Sherri Sheridan

Sherri Sheridan is the leading world expert in teaching story to digital filmmakers and animators with her books, classes and videos. She is also the Creative Director at Minds Eye Media in San Francisco, where she spends her time creating all sorts of digital projects (MindsEyeMedia.com). She directs, produces, animates, writes, and designs media for a wide range of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, major record labels, TV/cable stations, feature-film studios, advertising agencies, and...See more

Sherri Sheridan is the leading world expert in teaching story to digital filmmakers and animators with her books, classes and videos. She is also the Creative Director at Minds Eye Media in San Francisco, where she spends her time creating all sorts of digital projects (MindsEyeMedia.com). She directs, produces, animates, writes, and designs media 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. Sherri is the co-author of Maya 2 Character Animation (New Riders, 1999), and the author of Developing Digital Short Films (New Riders/ Peachpit / Pearson 2004). In 1998 she won the "Best Animated Music Video Award" at the World Animation Festival in Pasadena for "Beyond" by Geffen's Young American Primitive. "Beyond" was the first all digital music video created for a major record label, and world premiered at the ResFest Cinema Electronica in 1997. MyFlik.com "You Online Movie Studio" is her latest project, featuring a free online film school and low budget movie studio. She is also in the process of creating her first 3D animated feature film the "Bigfoot Shamans." The new 20 hour DV class "Writing A Great Script Fast" by Sherri Sheridan is now being used in schools all over the world to teach story. This cutting edge visual class guides the viewer through a start to finish visual screenwriting process, for low budget digital filmmakers, based on her best selling digital story books. Sherri recently finished a worldwide teaching tour using this new class, including a story trip through China. 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 University in San Francisco. While teaching these students, she started developing the foundation for a unique step-by-step universal digital visual storytelling process. Before founding Minds Eye Media in 1995, she helped develop Shockwave Technology at Macromedia, and created the first Shockwave movies on the web. See less