Profile
Bryan Craig Wilkinson
Born: May 13, 1970
Education (reverse order):
2002 Mesmer Animation Labs (see Current & Recent Images gallery).
Certificatation in 11 week immersion program in Avid SoftImage XSI.
Certification in Discreet 3D Studio Max Low Polygon Game Modeling & Discreet Character Studio.
Certification in Discreet Combustion Digital Compositing.
(1998) 5 week intensive study of SoftImage|3D (while working for Artsource/Microsoft).
1998 Bill Fleming's 3D Creature Workshop, Mastering 3D Graphics (online classes, now defunct) applied to Lightwave 3D.
1991-1993 Columbia College
Film Animation Major--studied film-making, traditional animation, and computer graphics.
1988-1991 De Anza College
Film/Video Major--studied film-making, traditional animation, art, screenwriting, and film analysis.
Side note: participated in an animation group named "Studio Goof Haus", acting as director and storyboarder of a project by the group.
1984-1988 Cupertino High School (curently under reconstruction!)
Focused on art and writing, and ran an anime club at the school in 1987. Also participated as a cellist in the school orchestra.
Side note: began actively participating in the anime fandom community after attending the anime program at Baycon 1986.
1982-1984 Hyde Jr. High School
Joined orchestra as a cellist and learned to read music. Focused on learning to draw perspective, writing.
Side note: Outside school, I began collecting anime paraphanelia from Space Cruiser Yamato and Super Dimensional Fortress Macross.
1978-1982 Eaton Elementary School
In school did a lot of writing, and was selected to represent the school at a seminar for talented young writers.
Side note: First learned about Japanese origins of the Star Blazers series as "Space Cruiser Yamato" and Micronauts as "Microman" from Japanese American classmates, sparking my interest in Japanese pop culture.
1975-1977 Laneview Elementary School
Side note: During these earliest years of school I first became exposed to the Micronauts toyline and Star Blazers animated series.
Hobbies:
General favorites: Ethnic and fine
dining, anime, manga, and anime/game soundtracks, import console games,
Microman and Micronauts
, science fiction and fantasy novels.
Favorite
cuisines
: Nouvelle Japanese, French
Favorite local restaurants: Fort St.
George, Tuna House, Au Buchon, Typhoon (we'll miss you, Raimu-Tei
!)
Favorite books (non-fiction):
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, A Demon-Haunted World
by Carl Sagan
Favorite books (fiction):
Taltos series and other books by Steven Brust, Lois McMaster Bujold's
Vorkosigan series, Catherine Asaro's Skolian Empire series, E.E.
"Doc" Smith's Lensman
series, to name a few...
Favorite director:
Kunihiko Ikuhara
Favorite film:
Shoujo Kakumei Utena
Favorite screenwriters:
Yoji Enokido, Yousuke Kuroda, Hideyuki Kurata, Chiaki Konaka
Favorite anime ever: Yokohama Kaidashi
Kikou
OVA series
Favorite anime TV
series: Daiundoukai Battle Athletes, Shoujo Kakumei Utena, Seikai
no Senki
Favorite live action
series:
The Prisoner, Babylon 5
Favorite manga series:
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
Favorite comics:
Sandman, Courtney Crumrin, Thieves and Kings, THB, Bone
, and others.
Favorite games: Y's 1, 2, and
4, the Galaxy Fraulein Yuna series, Sonic Adventure,
Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 and 2, Dracula X: Rondo of Blood, Castlevania:
Symphony of the Night, Jumping Flash, Super Mario World
, and others.
Favorite seiyuu: Chisa Yokoyama, Mitsuishi
Kotono, Kaneto Shiozawa.
Favorite characters: Osaka of
Azumanga Daioh, Lamhirh (Lafiel) of Seikai no Monshou/Senki
, many others.
Updated: July, 2004.
All contents and design of this site are (c) Bryan Craig Wilkinson unless otherwise
noted.