Visiting Artists | CalArts Animation: The Early Years
This lecture series is open to CalArts students, faculty, staff, and alumni only. If you are interested in attending and would like a list of the films available for viewing before the class meetings please email Michael Scroggins via aka@calarts.edu to request access to the videos (some are password protected).
Paul Demeyer was born in Bruges, Belgium. He studied animation at the Royal Academy in Ghent and got his Master Degree at the California Institute of the Arts in 1977 when he also won the Student Academy Award in Animation for his short The Muse.
He started his career in Belgium where he directed commercials, story boarded and animated on TV shows and a feature film for Pen Film and BRT, the national Belgian television. He also taught animation at the Royal Academy of Gent.
After a year of early computer animation at RTL Productions in Luxembourg he moved to London, England where he directed commercials for Richard Purdum Productions. In 1988 he produced and directed the animated short The Goose Girl which won the Best Children Film Award at the Ottawa Animation Film Festival and The Animation Celebration in Los Angeles, 1989.
Paul Demeyer returned to Los Angeles in 1993 where he directed episodes of the Duckman television show for Klasky-Csupo Inc, and worked on the Rugrats TV series as creative producer. He also directed commercials in both 2D and CG animation for Kachew, the commercial division of Klasky-Csupo. Recent television work includes directing episodes of Disney’s Miles From Tomorrowland, and Disney Jr.’s The Rocketeer. His feature film credits include directing the animated feature Rugrats in Paris and sequence directing on The Rugrats Movie, and The Wild Thornberrys Movie for Paramount/ Nickelodeon Movies.
Demeyer has illustrated children's books published by Gollancz (Penguin) in the UK. He has taught at the Liverpool Poly, West Surrey School of Art and Design, CalArts, and USC.
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