Samantha Youssef
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| Born | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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| Known for | Character Animator Animation Director |
Samantha Youssef is a Canadian character animator, and animation director. She has worked in both feature films and video games for Walt Disney Animation,[1] Filmax, and Ubisoft.
Early life
Samantha Youssef was born in Montreal, Quebec. Both of her parents are surgeons.[2] She attended ballet classes at the Royal Academy of Dance and Canada's National Ballet School.[3]
Career
After submitting her portfolio to Sheridan College, Youssef got accepted and was one of four women in her college course. Samantha Youssef graduated from Sheridan College where she majored in Animation.[4]
Samantha Youssef was a character animator for The Walt Disney Company,[1][5] and has also worked for Ubisoft, Filmax Animation, and Yowza! Animation.
She is the Artistic Director and founder of Studio Technique,[6] an artistic production and training studio in Montreal focused on feature film and video game animation. In 2011, the studio received a $10,000 grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project.[3]
In 2015 she published the figure drawing book The Youssef Drawing Syllabus – Movement & Form.[7]
Recognition
She was featured in Chatelaine (magazine) as Miss Chatelaine in 2011.[3]
Youssef's animated short film La Fuga Grande (The Great Escape) was an award winner at the Toronto International Film Festival,[8][9] and has been showcased at other film festivals in Canada.[10][11]
Filmography
- Till Eulenspiegel (2003)
- El Cid: La leyenda (2003)
- Tarzan II (2005) (V)
- Lilo & Stitch 2 (2005) (V)
- Kronk's New Groove (2005)
- Bambi II (2006)
- Curious George (2006)
- The Girl Who Hated Books (2006)
- Brother Bear 2 (2006)
- La Fuga Grande (2007)
- Enchanted (film) (2007)
- Nocturna (2007)
- The Princess and the Frog (2009)
- Le jour des corneilles (2011)
- The Day of the Crows (2012)
- Steamboat Willie Redux (2013)
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
- Hullabaloo (2023)
- Dolittle (2020)
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021)
- Twilight of the Gods (2024)
- Twisted (TBA)
Bibliography
- The Youssef Drawing Syllabus – Movement & Form (ISBN 0994836104 Search this book on
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Samantha Youssef". IMDb.
- ↑ Great Women Animators https://greatwomenanimators.com/samantha-youssef/
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Latimer, Joanne; Glassman, Alanna (September 23, 2011). "Samantha Youssef on becoming an animator and founder of art school, Studio Technique".
- ↑ "Samantha Youssef". Alumni Profiles. Sheridan College. Archived from the original on 2016-08-18. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Canadian Animation https://www.canadiananimation.com/2015/03/animator-samantha-youssef.html
- ↑ "Studio Technique". Studio Technique. Archived from the original on April 25, 2022. Retrieved April 25, 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Youssef, Samantha (2015). Movement & form. Studio Technique Artistic Training Incorporated. ISBN 9780994836106. OCLC 915263926. Search this book on
- ↑ "The Great Escape" - Toronto International Film Festival
- ↑ "FRL-85124". collection.tiff.net. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
- ↑ ""The Great Escape" - Tremblant Film Festival". Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2010. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "TREMBLANT Film Festival 2007". 2011-07-28. Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved 2019-05-02. Unknown parameter
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