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 Animation Supervisor Sony Pictures Imageworks
T. Dan Hofstedt joined Sony Pictures Imageworks in 2004 as a senior character animator working on "The Polar Express." Currently he is animation supervisor on the next performance capture feature, "Monster House."
Hofstedt has worked on 21 feature films including some of most successful animated movies of all time. In his seven years with Sullivan-Bluth Studios he rose through the ranks to become a directing animator. The next 12 years he spent at Walt Disney Feature Animation where he animated on such award winning hits as "The Lion King," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," and "Hercules." He worked as a lead animator on characters in "Aladdin," "Pocahontas," "Mulan," "Tarzan," and "Treasure Planet."
Hofstedt’s gift for caricaturing both a likeness and an action of a character has served him well so far in a 21 year career. As a student in the character animation program at California Institute of the Arts, he was co-recipient of the "Bobe Cannon Memorial Scholarship" in 1982. His first job after Cal Arts was as an animator on the Emmy Award-winning TV series, "The Smurfs."
Hofstedt successfully transitioned from the 2D animation world to the 3D computer generated realm when he was able to train in computer animation at Disney during the making of "Treasure Planet" in 1999, helping design the fully CG robot character, "B.E.N." After animating a few scenes of the character at the end of that production, he worked on his first fully CGI project, the 3D stereoscopic theme park film attraction, "Mickey's Philharmagic."
Hofstedt has taught Character Animation for Maya at Studio Arts in Glendale, CA, a caricature workshop at Imageworks, and guest lectured at both the Cal Arts character animation and the USC animation programs.
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