Carole Holliday

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Carole Holliday
Nationality American
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  • Animator
  • Artist

Carole Holliday is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, and founder of Crowded Metro Films. She initially wanted to be a theatre actress, but went into animation instead to avoid compromising her Christian faith. She graduated from California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in animation. Combining her love of theatre and drawing, she found a passion in story boarding. [1] Holliday worked as an animation assistant on several films, such as Oliver and Company (1988) and The Little Mermaid (1989), before she began a career in story boarding on A Goofy Movie (1995). [2] She was also a story artist on the DreamWorks feature film The Prince of Egypt (1998) and Disney's feature films Tarzan (1999) and The Jungle Book 2 . Additionally, she worked as a character design supervisor on the Disney short John Henry (2000). In 2004, she moved up to directing Donald’s Gift with DisneyToon Studios as part of Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas

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She directed her own live action short film Witt’s Daughter (2008) which won the Best Narrative Short Award at the 2009 GI film festival. She has done storyboard revisions on Disney Television Animation's Sofia the First (2015) and has been working on Elena of Avalor story books. [3]

Education

California Institute of the Arts, BFA in Animation

Filmography

Storybooks

Elena of Avalor, Sofia the First, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Superbooks, Alpha and Omega, 3-2-1 Penguins!

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References

  1. ↑ "Interview with Carole Holliday, Disney Animator for "A GOOFY MOVIE" & "TARZAN"". The Tiara Talk Show. 26 November 2016. Retrieved 2017-04-27.[ dead link ]
  2. ↑ Staff, Hollywood.com (2014-11-20). "Carole Holliday | Biography and Filmography". Hollywood.com. Retrieved 2017-04-27.[ dead link ]
  3. ↑ "Carole Holliday Story Board Artist II My Story". www.crowdedmetrofilms.com. Archived from the original on 2017-04-28. Retrieved 2017-04-27.

7. Carole Holliday podcast interview Ink and Paint Girls

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