She’s passionate and cutting edge and she knows her stuff. That’s Vicky McCann. She loves the world of CG and really wants to help students understand what it takes to make a movie scene tick. Vicky started her love of all things “techie” back in 1984 when her parents brought home an IBM PCjr. You could say it was a start of a love affair with an interesting world that led her from Wavefront to DreamWorks Feature Animation, Electronic Arts, Disney, and Industrial Light & Magic.

Vicky’s worked on many films. Among her favorites is Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl and she says she did some work simulating cloth on the dementors in Harry Potter 3: Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban (which she says was pretty cool).

Vicky’s areas of expertise reach far and wide. She is an expert in rigid dynamics, cloth, hair, particle, fluid, and smoke simulation. And, with over 15 years of experience in the field she’s the perfect instructor to help fledgling artists find their path in the world of CG.