Stephanie Maxwell

Stephanie Angela Maxwell is an animator, filmmaker and professor in the School of Film and Animation at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She specializes in hand-painted experimental abstract animation. Her techniques include direct-on-film painting, motion painting, object animation, copier techniques, and live action manipulation. Most of her works are collaborations with composers.

Stephanie Maxwell's works have been presented in many international festivals, including the Northwest Film Forum,^[1] the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival,^[2] and the Ottawa International Animation Festival. She was co-founder of the ImageMovementSound festivals, an annual festival of collaborative productions by interdisciplinary artists.^[3]

Works

Stephanie Maxwell's films include:

• Nocturne (1999), a collaborative work with composer Greg Wilder
• Time Streams (2003), a collaborative work with composer Allan Schindler
• Currents (2008), a collaborative work with Michaela Eremiasova and Jairo Duarte-Lopez

Publications

• "Why I work direct on film", Animation, vol. 7, spring 1999

External links

• "The Animation Pimp: Unsung Animators #3: Riding with Stephanie Maxwell", Animation World Network
• Please Don't Stop (1989) on YouTube
• Fragments (2000) on YouTube
• Runa's Spell (2007) on YouTube
• Stephanie Maxwell's homepage

References