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Animator J.J. Sedelmaier Visits Notre Dame Thurs. 11/18
On Thursday, November 18 at 5pm in the Browning Family Cinema in the Marie. P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts, the Dept. of Film, Television, and Theatre's FTT Talks series will present animator and design artist J.J. Sedelmaier, who will speak on his work in television and advertising. Admission is free.
Mr. Sedelmaier is the founder, president, and creative director of J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, a design and animation studio which is based in White Plains, New York. As the creative force behind the company, J. J. Sedelmaier oversees everything that is produced by JJSP, and he is known in the industry as an all-around expert on the history of film and cartoons, animation, print art and illustration. Over the years he has collaborated with many of the country's foremost illustrators and artists, including Al Hirschfeld, Garry Trudeau, Alex Ross, Don Martin, and Neal Adams, and he has an established world-wide reputation for original design and print work. Some of his advertising design clients include Volkswagon, Nike, Old Navy, NBC, Converse, 7-UP, Slim-Jims, and Sudafed.
Television viewers will also be familiar with his work in animated series, including such projects as Beavis and Butthead, the "TV Funhouse" cartoons on Saturday Night Live, Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, and Strangers With Candy, and his animations and logo designs have appeared on such television networks as Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, MTV, NBC, E!, and Oxygen.
The studio has received close to 700 Awards of Recognition from various film and print competitions, with screenings in over 100 festivals in 25 different countries, and Sedelmaier's work has also been requested for the permanent collections at the Guggenheim Museum, the Andy Warhol Museum, and the New York Public Library. In all, J. J. Sedelmaier Productions has animated more than 400 productions in the last twelve years.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Film, Television,and Theatre, the Center for Creative Computing, the Computer Applications Program, and the DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts.
