Steve Rittler
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- William Paterson University
Other / Past Affiliation(s):
- School of Visual Arts
Bio:
SIGGRAPH Asia 2008
Steve Rittler is an independent animator, illustrator, designer, and educator who specializes in 3D character animation, visual storytelling, and figurative art. He earned a BFA in illustration from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. After launching his career as an illustrator, he moved to New York City, where he later received an MFA in computer graphics animation from Pratt Institute. He has worked for the Walt Disney Company in Los Angeles and has taught animation, storyboarding, figure drawing, and illustration at Pratt and New York University. He is president of his own company, MuseMachine Productions, and is a tenured associate professor of animation at William Paterson University in New Jersey. He also teaches animation and is a thesis group leader in the MFA Computer Art Department at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Several of his students have won Student Academy Awards. He serves on the board of directors of the local New York City chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH.
Course Organizer:
- SIGGRAPH 2003, "There Can Be Only One: Independent Animation Production for the Lonely"
- SIGGRAPH 2004, "There Can Still Be Only One: Independent Animation Production for the Lonely"
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