Helena Giersz
Helena Giersz-Uszac is an animation director and character designer. She studied graphic design, majoring in animation at the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Warsaw. In 1979 she began her animation career at Studio Miniatur Filmowych.
In 1991 she moved to the United States and began working for Sesame Street and Nickelodeon creating short multimedia animations.
In 1997 Helena founded Funline Animation Studio where she began collaboration with Nick jr. on a new show called Nina’s Pop-up Puzzle. After the first six characters(Dora, Boots, Benito, Tico, Swiper, and Isa) got approved, she was commissioned to produce a pilot for the series which later became known as Dora the Explorer.[1][2]. The series took off, transforming Funline Animation into a Dora-focused production studio. Over the next fifteen years she created over a thousand characters for the series and over twenty online games for Nick Jr online [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
In 2004 she produced animation on two computer games starring Clifford, the Big Red Dog for Scholastic[11]. In 2004, she made a film titled, Do Other Things, which received the Best of the Fest award at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival [12]. During that same year, Helena started working on character designs for the Nick Jr. series Go Diego Go![13]
In 2011 she created a documentary about Polish composer, singer and guitarist Krzysztof Klenczon. She also produced a photo album book about The Red Guitars, the most famous Polish rock band of the 1960’s.[14]
2016 she began working on her independent movie based on her experiences of growing up in Eastern Europe and moving to the US.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Dora the Explorer.Dora's rescue in Mermaid Kingdom /Created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes, Eric Weiner ; produced by Steve Socki, Helena Uszac ; directed by Sherie Pollack, Arnie Wong. – National Library".
- ↑ Terrace, Vincent (2009-03-23). The Year in Television, 2008: A Catalog of New and Continuing Series, Miniseries, Specials and TV Movies. ISBN 9780786443918. Search this book on
- ↑ http://doratheexplorergames.blogspot.com/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Dora-Explorer-Babies-Fatima-Ptacek/dp/B0009CTVKO?tag=everybodywikien-20
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Dora-Explorer-Riddles-Fatima-Ptacek/dp/B00009YXBW?tag=everybodywikien-20
- ↑ https://www.sapnaonline.com/shop/Author/Brown%20Johnson,Chris%20Gifford,Eric%20Weiner,Helena%20Uszac,Steve%20Socki,Valerie%20Walsh
- ↑ "Go Diego Go!The great dinosaur rescue[videorecording] /Saerom Animation, Inc. : Nick Jr. Productions ; Nickelodeon ; produced by Cathy Galeota ; written by Valerie Walsh ; directed by George Chialtas, Matt Engstrom, Allan Jacobsen, Henry Madden. – National Library".
- ↑ https://staffmeup.com/profile/3882928-Helena-Uszac
- ↑ Dora the Explorer - Save the Day! [DVD]. Nickelodeon. 2010-07-13. Search this book on
- ↑ "Dora the Explorer-Puppy Power! By Brown Johnson [Producer]; Helena Uszac [Producer]; Steve Socki [Producer]; Chris Gifford [Writer]; Eric Weiner [Writer];...: New, DVD, €5,28 at Alibris".
- ↑ "Funline Animation Developed Games".
- ↑ "Best of the Fest".
- ↑ "Go Diego Go!The great dinosaur rescue[videorecording] /Saerom Animation, Inc. : Nick Jr. Productions ; Nickelodeon ; produced by Cathy Galeota ; written by Valerie Walsh ; directed by George Chialtas, Matt Engstrom, Allan Jacobsen, Henry Madden. – National Library".
- ↑ ""10 w skali Beauforta" - film o Krzysztofie Klenczonie, liderze Czerwonych Gitar". 2011-05-02.
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