Visual storytelling for animated films | Kyoung Lee Swearingen | TEDxOhioStateUniversity

Professor Kyoung Lee Swearingen has years of experience as a Lighting Technical Director at Pixar Animation Studios, and will explain how visual storytelling techniques are used to enhance the emotion of a story in animated films. Kyoung Lee Swearingen is a visual storyteller with years of experience as a Lighting Technical Director at Pixar Animation Studios and her filmography includes Ratatouille, Wall-E, UP, Cars 2, Toy Story 3, Brave, Monsters University, Presto, La Luna, The Blue Umbrella, Mater’s Tall Tales, and Partly Cloudy which have claimed numerous awards from the Academy Awards, BAFTA, Visual Effects Society, The American Film Institute, as well as many others. Currently, Kyoung is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Design, teaches computer animation at Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design(ACCAD) and her research focuses on creating games and animation for social good, using humane technology and practicing transdisciplinary collaboration. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx