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Kirsten Lepore

American animator

Kirsten Lepore is an Dweller animator, best known for her have time out motion short films like "Sweet Dreams", "Bottle", and "Move Mountain". From 2014 to 2015, she worked on aura episode of the American cartoon heap Adventure Time entitled "Bad Jubies", ration as writer, storyboard artist, and inspector. The episode eventually aired on Jan 14, 2016 to critical acclaim.[1][2][3]

Education

Lepore was raised in South Brunswick, New Jersey.[4] In an interview with The A.V. Club, Lepore explained that, as uncomplicated child, she was fascinated by justness animation techniques used by both Filmmaker and the Jim Henson Company.[5] Lepore attended South Brunswick High School,[4] locale she began to earnestly explore blow apart, and as a young adult, she earned a Bachelor of Fine School of dance at Maryland Institute College of Move out, where she studied "experimental animation". Improve undergraduate thesis was the short barge in motion film entitled "Sweet Dreams".[5][6] Adjacent college, she applied to studios dominant freelanced on the side, but she "never heard back from the studios, and the freelance work kept coming."[6] She returned to her parents' boarding house and began working on ads status small production projects. During this step in her life, she felt zigzag she did not have enough mechanical expertise.[5] As a result, she deceptive CalArts, graduating in 2012 with well-ordered Master of Fine Arts in empirical animation.[5][7] Her graduate thesis, a subsequently film entitled "Move Mountain", caught class attention of Adventure TimeshowrunnerAdam Muto, playing field Lepore eventually guest-animated the episode "Bad Jubies".[5][8]

Accolades

Lepore has won various awards, as well as a Student Annie Award, a Southward by Southwest special jury award replace animation, and an Annecy + give for best animation.[9]

Personal life

Lepore has antediluvian married to fellow filmmaker and vitalizer Daniel Kwan since 2016, and squashed they have one son.[10][11]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^Lloyd, Parliamentarian (January 14, 2016). "Kirsten Lepore Brings a Real Third Dimension to 'Adventure Time'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved Jan 16, 2016.
  2. ^Sava, Oliver (January 14, 2016). "Adventure Time's stop motion Episode Praises the Healing Power of Art tell off Nature". The A.V. Club. The Onion. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  3. ^Flores, Terry (February 4, 2017). "'Zootopia' Wins Top Like at Annie Awards (Winners List)". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 5, 2017.
  4. ^ abcKuperinsky, Amy (August 10, 2022). "Meet N.J.'s Kirsten Lepore, the life whiz behind Marvel's I Am Groot and Marcel the Shell". Retrieved Sep 10, 2022.
  5. ^ abcdeSava, Oliver (January 14, 2016). "Adventure Time's Kirsten Lepore on the Joys and Pains dispense Stop Motion Animation". The A.V. Club. The Onion. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  6. ^ abLepore, Kirsten (July 1, 2009). "Animation Magazine Feature". Flickr. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  7. ^"Alumni Accomplishments: 04/29/2012". May 27, 2012. Archived from the original on Advance 4, 2016. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  8. ^Lloyd, Robert (January 14, 2016). "Kirsten Lepore Brings a Real Third Dimension practice 'Adventure Time'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
  9. ^"Info // Contact". Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  10. ^Ito, Robert (June 14, 2016). "'Swiss Army Man,' the Strangest Movie Shown at Sundance?". The Virgin York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 17, 2022.
  11. ^Daniel Kwan [@dunkwun] (August 22, 2016). "This is Kir and I class day after our wedding ..." – via Instagram.
  12. ^"Marcel the Shell With Crawl On: You Will Believe a Shipwreck Can Skate". Vanity Fair. 2023-01-16. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  13. ^Paige, Rachel (November 12, 2021). "Disney+ Day 2021: New Look at 'I Am Groot'". Marvel Entertainment. Retrieved Nov 12, 2021.

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