Fred Cline

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Frederick Cline (born May 11, 1961, in Palo Alto, California) is a production designer, art director, writer and storyboard artist. Cline is a lecturer at Chapman University. He graduated from Monterey Bay Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist secondary school. Cline graduated from Pacific Union College with a degree in advertising design. He also graduated from the film school of California Institute of the Arts with a degree in Character Animation.^[1] As a teenager, he was introduced to film animation by Lee Blair and Mary Blair, retired artist/animators from his hometown of Santa Cruz, California.^[2]

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.6 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous urban regions, with 18.7 million and 9.7 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second most populous, after New York City. California also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The City and County of San Francisco is both the country's second-most densely populated major city after New York City and the fifth-most densely populated county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs.

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References

↑ Frederick Cline Lecturer Chapman University Retrieved October 11, 2018
↑ Fred Cline's Blog Fred World Retrieved October 11, 2018

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[1] Frederick Cline Lecturer Chapman University Retrieved October 11, 2018

[2] Fred Cline's Blog Fred World Retrieved October 11, 2018