Courses Taught: Drawing Bootcamp, Animation & Motion Theory
Education: MFA in Film Graphics from CalArts

Pam has been working in the Design and Animation fields for 20 years. Her first brush with computers occurred in the early 80’s when she worked on the Airheart. She went on to animate many Living Book titles in the 90’s such as Arthur’s Reading Race and Stellaluna. She was an animation director at Purple Moon, an early pioneer in bringing girls to the computer and Web. She continued her children’s software expertise at The Learning Company where she was the principal lead on such games as Oregon Trail 5, Reader Rabbit, Strawberry Shortcake, PowerPuff Girls, and Scooby-Doo titles as well as created Leapfrog books for Reader and brought Reader Rabbit to DVD. Pam has worked for various animation companies in the Bay Area and in LA, including Colossal Pictures, Wildbrain, ILM, Klasky Csupo , Film Roman, Warner Brothers, Disney TV, and Acme Filmworks, where she has animated, painted backgrounds, storyboarded, and directed. In addition to animation and traditional cartoon animation, Pam has worked in many styles form paint on glass, to silhouette-jointed figures, pastels, color pencils, and cutouts. Pam has taught animation to elementary, middle school children, and has been an animation instructor at The Center for Electronic Arts.