Director Biography - Bradford Uyeda

I am a full-time animation Director and a claymation fiend living in Phoenix, Az with my beautiful Wife and Daughters.  I graduated from the traditional animation program at San Francisco State University in 2005, and worked on various series, and commercials as both a freelancer and full-time staff member at various studios while living in CA six years ago.

I am very passionate about what I do, and work tirelessly to better myself as an animator and film maker, and strive to make sure that shows through in my work.

Shokunin, which means an artisan or craftsman who is a master of something and is more concerned with perfection of his or her craft than with money!

Director Statement

Since the late 1990’s my work has been a statement of the times, of current events and sociopolitical threads. In my work I delve into various mediums and use their textures and brilliance to convey my thoughts on the world as it is. I normally would generate several works through painting, sculpture and mix mediums such as print with combinations of mediums. Though through film and animation i am able to bring life to what is line and shape. Animation allows me to express myself through movement and visual purity. Through the process of trial and error I have found my style of animation to be stop-motion animation.
In the footsteps of Ray Harryhausen, Kihachiro Kawamoto and Jiri Barta I have found that stop-motion animation has unique qualities when it comes to bringing life to the lifeless. This idea of life and creating a statement of feeling through this medium is powerful to me. Images and sculpted visuals can convey the most thought provoking ideas. Being able to create what the eyes see is bold in its context. I enjoy this visual presentation and all aspects of the process using sound to generate realism and voice to humanize the idea expresses on film.