Nancy Beiman is a director, character designer, teacher, and animator. She attended the Character Animation program at

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Career

Animation

In 1986, Beiman cofounded Caged Beagle Productions with business partner

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. She then moved to Berlin, Germany where she directed and animated for Film Productions. In 1989, she was a supervising animator at Steven Spielberg's Amblin' studio in London animating Miss Kitty in the feature film '' An American Tail: Fievel Goes West''. Beiman animated Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Winnie the Pooh for many Disney projects beginning in 1982. She joined the Walt Disney Company full time as a supervising animator and development artist for ''

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'' (1995), ''

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'' (1997) and ''

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'' (2002). Nancy Beiman also animated on the feature film '' Snoopy: The Musical'' (1988), and early video game projects for Philips Sidewalk Studios '' The Crayon Factory'' and two other CDI that she directed, storyboarded, and co animated. Her interviews with animation artists appeared in ''Cartoonist Profiles'' magazine from 1982 to 1995.

Teaching

Beiman taught storyboard at

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's Animation department in Canada from 2008 to 2018. Beiman previously taught animation at

Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is a private nonprofit art school with locations in Savannah, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; and Lacoste, France. Founded in 1978 to provide degrees in programs not yet offered in the southeast of the Uni ...

, and taught animation, character design, layout, storyboard and gesture drawing at

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, School of Film & Animation from 2004 to 2008. Beiman retired in 2022.

Books

Beiman is the author of two books on animation acting and storyboarding: ''Animated Performance''. and ''Prepare to Board!''. In 2022, she published a book of autobiographical comics about her life during COVID, ''How I Finally Got to Live a Cat's Life: A Cartoon Diary 2020-2021.'' :* :* :*

Awards

Beiman was awarded a Golden Pencil for outstanding teaching at the 2D Or Not 2D Animation Festival in 2007. In 1984 she was awarded with the NCS Division Award in the field of Feature Animation.

References

External links

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''The Demon Duck of Doom'' (Nancy Beiman's blog)

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