Office: Xavier 224
Phone: 310.338.5841
Email: ajarosze@lmu.edu

Area of Expertise
3D Computer Animation
Character Pipeline
Compositing
Visual Effects

Education
MFA in Film, Video and Computer Animation: University of Southern California (2004)
BFA in Graphic Design: University of the Pacific (1999)

Biography
Adriana has been working on various animation projects for over 10 years, from internet based to feature length animation and visual effects films. She holds an MFA from the University of Southern California, School of Film and Television, where she directed and animated five shorts. Before joining Loyola Marymount University as an Assistant Professor in Animation, Adriana served as a Senior Digital Trainer for animators, compositors, hair, layout, character set up and character pipeline crews for Sony Pictures Imageworks, where she trained artists for the following feature films: "Monster House," "Superman Returns," "Surf's Up," "Open Season," "Spiderman 3," "I am Legend," "Beowulf," "Watchmen," "G-Force," "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," "Alice in Wonderland" and "Cats and Dogs 2."

In June 2010, she was selected to be mentored as a scholar at the prestigious Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL Institute) for her project entitled “Character Animation: A Real Physical Experience”, where she is assessing the impact of Laban based movement methods as pedagogy, for the improvement of computer animation biomechanics and character personality development. Adriana is currently working on her animated short “El Botín” (The Loot), a dark tragic comedy about greed and war, and on “Cosmogenesis,” an experimental film using Houdini, pixilation, long exposure and the iPad.

Recent Publication and Creative Work Adriana is currently working on the pre-production of an animated/vfx short, a dark tragicomedy about disillusion, greed, and altered states of mind of the human condition.