Paul Griswold
Assistant Professor of Animation
Please email or send me a message in Teams. If you need to meet, make sure to send me a chat so you don't walk all the way to Jones Hall and find out I'm actually over in Bragg! Even if it's outside my office hours, I'll do my best to work with your schedule. Meeting via Zoom or Teams works as well.
Advisor: MTSU Unreal Community / VR-AR Club
Advisor: Japan Club at MTSU
Departments / Programs
- Animation
- Department of Media Arts
- Video Production (Motion Design Concentration Only)
Degree Information
- MFA, Savannah College of Art and Design (2020)
- BS, University of Miami (1992)
Areas of Expertise
Motion graphics, visual effects, and virtual production using game engines (Unreal Engine).
Software specialties: DaVinci Resolve, Blackmagic Fusion, Houdini, After Effects, 3D-Coat, Unreal Engine, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher.
Biography
In addition to my MFA, I have nearly 30 years of experience in film, post-production, visual effects, motion graphics, and animation. In my career, I’ve worked as a commercial film director, created motion graphics & visual effects for over a dozen films (3 of which won at Sundance), and have worked with some incredibly talented and influential people such as Academy Award-winning director Jessica Yu, actor/comedian Jack Black, creator of Ren & Stimpy, John Kricfalusi, cre...
Read More »In addition to my MFA, I have nearly 30 years of experience in film, post-production, visual effects, motion graphics, and animation. In my career, I’ve worked as a commercial film director, created motion graphics & visual effects for over a dozen films (3 of which won at Sundance), and have worked with some incredibly talented and influential people such as Academy Award-winning director Jessica Yu, actor/comedian Jack Black, creator of Ren & Stimpy, John Kricfalusi, creator of Veggie Tales, Phil Vischer, director of 10 Cloverfield Lane, Dan Trachtenberg and dozens more.
Prior to Covid, I’ve brought guest speakers like Sam Daley from Technicolor to discuss his work on The Florida Project, HBO’s The Deuce, and USA Networks The Sinner as well as Ryan Connolly, famed YouTube celebrity and host of Film Riot. I was a guest speaker at Chicago’s Motion Graphics Fest 09, where I was one of the winning artists. I, along with Syd Garon and Shepard Fairey were asked to speak at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles during the Flux film festival. And, I along with Sam Spiegel (brother of director Spike Jonze) were featured guests at Toronto’s CFC Worldwide Shorts festival.
