Kevin McNulty's interests inside and outside of academia include film, television, animation, video games, technology, comics, pop culture and all related fields, making him ideal for teaching students in the Animation program at MTSU.

Like most children, McNulty loved animation. But he took it a few steps further and began animating plasticine clay figures using his father's VHS camera in grade school for fun and school projects.

Even though he entered undergraduate college at SUNY Geneseo undecided, his true passions rose to the surface and inadvertently guided him to double major in Mass Communication with an emphasis in Mass Media Production, and Studio Art with a duel focus in Ceramics and Computer Art.

He combined these skills and entered graduate school at Rochester Institute of Technology concentrating in 3D Computer Animation (along with fellow professor, Rodrigo Gomez!). It was in graduate school that McNulty's latent love for teaching grew when he was a computer lab assistant for two different labs and co-student taught undergraduate animation classes. In 2002, before earning his degree, McNulty was offered a position teaching and running his own program in Iowa.

As part of his creative activities, McNulty loves storytelling and making animated shorts. His most recent animated short films, "Coffee" and "Tethered," have screened in film festivals around the world and earned him notoriety as an international award winning filmmaker.

McNulty is also very active within ACM SIGGRAPH, the largest international organization for computer graphics and interactive techniques. He is the Student Chapters Liaison for the Professional and Student Chapters Committee, and the Chapters Liaison for the Education Committee. 

McNulty is the faculty advisor to the ACM SIGGRAPH Student Chapter at MTSU, one of under 20 chapters in the world. 

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Selected Awards and Screenings:

Coffee

2014 – ARTLightenment Art and Film Festival – WINNER, Best Innovative Film, WINNER, 2nd Place Audience Choice

2015 – Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation

2015 – Nashville Film Festival, OFFICIAL SELECTION

2015 – Boomtown Film and Music Festival - WINNER, 1st Place Best Animation

2015 – Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festival - NOMINATED, Best Animation

2015 – NOFI World Festival of Student and Non-Commercial Films – WINNER, Best Animation

2015 – Three Cities Online Film/TV Festival & Conference – NOMINATED, Best Screenplay

Tethered

2014 – Computer Artist It Awards – WINNER, Choice Award

2015 – Nashville Film Festival, OFFICIAL SELECTION

2015 – Boomtown Film and Music Festival – WINNER, 2nd Place Best Animation 

2015 – Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festival – NOMINATED, Best Animation

2015 – NOFI World Festival of Student and Non-Commercial Films – WINNER, Diploma of Honor

2015 – Pacific Coast International Film Festival – WINNER, Judge’s Favorite Award

2015 – Three Cities Online Film/TV Festival & Conference – NOMINATED, Best Screenplay

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