Steve Martino

Steve Martino, director of this summer’s Ice Age: Continental Drift and Horton Hears a Who! (2008), introduces and discusses clips from these films and more in a lively and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at studio animation. Martino also served as art director on Robots (2005) and the Ice Age short, Gone Nutty (2002). Getting his start at Ohio State with a bachelor’s degree in visual communication design in 1981 and receiving his master's from Ohio State’s celebrated Computer Graphics Research Group (now ACCAD) in 1989, he has ridden the wave of computer animation for nearly 30 years. (app. 90 mins., video)

Cosponsored by Ohio State's Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD).