Dug Ward
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- UCLA Animation Workshop
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 2006
Dug Ward
Program Manager and Faculty
UCLA Animation Workshop
Dug Ward’s responsibilities at UCLA include: teaching, technical direction and administration of the day-to-day operations of the graduate program. Prior to UCLA he worked at Film Roman for two seasons, 1995-97 on Fox’s, “King Of The Hill” as a character layout artist and animation timer. Prior to Film Roman, Dug was a producer/designer for Western Technologies a computer game company. Between 1989 and1995, Dug was an animation director at Philips Interactive Media. In 1994, he created, wrote, directed, and animated a CD-I interactive miniature golf game for all ages called, “The Wacky World Of Miniature Golf” narrated by comedian Eugene Levy.
He also works as an independent animator creating his own short films, which screen at various film festivals around the United States. Dug is married with two kids, two cats, and a fish.