Aubry Mintz

Aubry Mintz has worked as a feature animator at Industrial Light and Magic and Square USA and as an award-winning freelance animation director for clients such as Smirnoff, McDonald’s, General Mills and the Canadian rock band Rush. As an animation producer, Mintz was responsible for managing the budgets and pipeline for several animated projects, including the series “Airship Dracula” for Rides TV and the multi-award-winning short animated film “Nothing to Say” (which he also wrote, directed and animated) with official selections at 42 international film festivals.

As co-author for the book “Ideas for the Animated Short” and writer for Cartoon Brew, Animation Magazine, AnimationScoop.com and IndieWire.com, Mintz has presented to audiences throughout the US and Canada at several companies and conferences, including Disney Feature Animation, Blue Sky Animation Studios and DreamWorks Animation Animation and was a panelist at San Diego Comic-Con, SIGGRAPH and CTNX. He also appeared as a guest host on TV’s Turner Classic Movies (TCM) for a 4-hour program consulting on the animated short films from the National Film Board of Canada.

As an educator Mintz has developed two college animation programs from scratch as chair of animation at Laguna College of Art and Design and CSULB where he was animation program head from 2010 to 2019. Mintz was recently the Director of Animation and VFX at Chapman University and Director of the School of Art at California State University Long Beach. Mintz is Executive Director for the prestigious non-profit organization that helms the Annie Awards – ASIFA-Hollywood.