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Greg Chapman | Geoff Ind
Greg Chapman - Animation Course Director
 Greg has worked as an animator, animation director, designer and project coordinator in the television production industry since 2000. His extensive experience includes animation on television productions, commercials, feature film and music video projects for animation luminaries including Disney, Warner Bros., Nelvarna Studios and Silver Fox Films.
He has also animated for New Zealand studios including Firehorse Films, Flux Animation Studios, Yuk Foo Animation Studios and Breakthroughz Animation.
Between 2002 and 2005, as well as managing large departments in NZ animation studios, he also supervised quality control for overseas studios working on animated productions for Disney and Silver Fox Films.
Before joining South Seas, Greg developed course material and tutored at several other leading New Zealand tertiary institutions.
Greg is a classically trained animator and has produced artwork for interactive media, educational DVDs, book illustrations, cover art, clothing labels and logos and maintains strong connections and involvement with the animation and commercial art industry.
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Geoff Ind - Animation Tutor
 Geoff is a highly motivated and much-nominated animation artist. Having trained in New Zealand and Australia, Geoff began his animation career in 2001 at Slightly Off Beat Animation (later to become Anim8).
More recently he was employed with Walt Disney Animation in Sydney where he worked on six animated feature films, including Brother Bear 2, Cinderella 3 and Mickey, Donald and Goofy's The Three Musketeers.
Geoff says his favourite part of animation is when a character that he has been working on (sometimes for months at a stretch) as a series of hand drawn pictures, finally comes to life and starts moving around and acting with a life of their own.
"It's very rewarding to finally see the result of all of the hard work you and the other artists have put in."
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ANIWA NICHOLAS | 2008
Aniwa is a presenter on the Pukoro series for Māori TV. In 2007 she visited South Seas with her high-school classmates and remembers, "Going to South Seas showed us what media studies and career pathways we could do." She enrolled in South Seas' 2008 Film and Television Production course. "Everything was hard-out just like the industry. We quickly learned how to become professional. I also really enjoyed the practical nature of the course and the great support I got from all the other Maori Rongo students on the course." |
