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Tom Bancroft

Director Animator
Tom Bancroft has over thirty years of experience in the animation industry, most of which was for Walt Disney Feature animation where he was an animator for twelve years on such Disney classics as Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Tarzan and Brother Bear. He is also the creator of "Mushu" The Dragon in Disney’s Mulan. After Disney, he worked with Big Idea Productions as a Supervising Director/Co-creator for a VeggieTales DVD series. His popular character design instruction books — “Creating Characters with Personality” and “Character Mentor” — have become the most recognized books on designing characters and are required textbooks at many art schools around the world. Tom is half of the popular “The Bancroft Brothers Animation Podcast” with his twin brother Tony, as well as creator of the annual, world-wide Instagram drawing event #MerMay with millions of followers. He produced "Pencils Vs. Pixels" a documentary feature about 2D animation and is the founder and Artist-in-Residence of the thriving Animation program at Lipscomb University. He is the CEO of Pencilish Animation Studios, the world’s first crowdfunded animation IP development company.

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Beyond the Tide: Where Mermaids Go After May

Room 209-210 | Whitney Pollett | Lauren Barger | Tom Bancroft | Dell Technologies

Each May, artists around the world dive into the world of mermaids for #MerMay. But what happens when the tide goes out? Join MerMay creator Tom Bancroft, and hosts Lauren Barger, and Whitney Pollett as they share how MerMay jump-started their own tangible dream projects, and Dell workstations powered by Nvidia GPUs enabled them to push their art further.

Hear how others in the community turned MerMay creations into books, jobs, and even plush businesses!
If you’re in the audience and your MerMay journey continued past May, we’d love to hear your story! Let’s talk about the creative waves and opportunities that can come from just one month of making merms!

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