Mark Chavez

Mark is an animation industry professional and academic whose research experiments with hybrid animation technologies.

Having received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing at Arizona State University, Tempe, he moved to Los Angeles in 1980 where he enrolled into the presitgious University of California at Los Angeles Film School to pursue an MFA. While pursuing his studies he worked professionally in emergent media technologies. In 1980 he created a motion billboard displayed on the Playboy Building in Hollywood, California. It encompassed the creation of animated characters projected in laser light. Among other early professional work, executed in 1983 and still on display are the historic leaders of the Old South charging into fading Glory. It encompasses laser light projected onto huge carvings on the side of the granite mountain at Stone Mountain State Park, Georgia. His Masters thesis was displayed during the 1984 Summer Olympics on the side of the Federal Building in Westwood, California in laser light.

Mark’s professional experience includes work at major studios in interactive medias, broadcast television and console games and feature films including Dreamworks Feature Animation and Rhythm and Hues Studios Los Angeles. He has extensive experience in feature animation and live action visual effects having worked on many major feature films. In all he has work on more than 15 feature films including X-Men United, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, The Cat in the Hat, Flight of the Phoenix, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, and The Prince of Egypt among others.