Mike Nguyen received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Character Animation at the California Institute of the Arts in 1988. Since then, he has worked primarily in the feature animation industry in the USA as a character animator in various studios, including Walt Disney, Warner Bros and DreamWorks Animation.

Among the films he had worked on are Beauty and the Beast and the critically acclaimed The Iron Giant, as a super- vising animator. In 2000, he co-founded July Films, an independent theatrical animation production company, and his directing debut was the theatrical animated feature entitled My Little World, currently in production...

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I like to approach the animated process from the inside out, allowing inward natures to dictate surface outcomes.

The animated process relies heavily on the inner senses and seeks to communicate this “sensed” impression – not so much things in “actual” but in how things “feel” with roots from everyday life reality. Animated worlds, too, have their own set of reality and physics; they mirror the real world and have a degree of variation in physical attributes such as the time element, the velocity of movement and the exaggerated nature of mass...

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