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Animation: A Handy Guide
The films of Sheila Graber were featured in Animator’s newsletter number 5, summer 1983. At the time she had recently given up her post of Head of Creative Studies at King George Comprehensive School to pursue animation on a full-time professional basis.
In a career spanning more than 20 years she has created over 60 shorts and 3 TV series. One of Sheila’s driving forces has been to “use animation as a means of communication not just for entertainment but for education and healing too”.
She has run animation classes as far a field as Tunisia and Caracas, and gained an Alumni Fellowship from Sunderland University in 1998 for “Outstanding services to Education and Art”.
Sheila is currently running a series of weekly art and animation classes for adults with special needs for the “Brothers of Charity” in Waterford, Ireland. This is a long term project of 4 years standing. The results are so successful she hopes to continue and evolve her work in this area.
Sheila has just written a book, with supporting DVD, called “Animation: A Handy Guide”.
More information about her can be found on the Sheila Graber web site.
I love Sheila Graber’s style of animation. I first came across her work when she wrote a series of articles on animating in a magazine called Movie Maker. It must have been in the 1970s.
Sue.
Thank you for bringing Sheila Graber to my attention David. Following up on the Sheila Graber movies in your video section I find she has a lot of her films on YouTube. What a prolific animator!
Regards,
Joe.