Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Whilst we're on the subject of women in animation, I came across the great read from Brenda Chapman's twitter feed and blog. http://www.brenda-chapman.com/blog/animation/celebrating-jennifer-yuh-nelson-the-most-successful-female-director-in-hollywood/ A great Q and A with Hollywoods most successful female director. Jenifer Yuh Nelson Rose to fame as the director of Dreamworks Kung Fu Panda 2, and work in story development on the first Kung Fu Panda. The full article can be found here. http://www.awardsdaily.com/2012/02/the-most-successful-female-director-in-hollywood-history/ She talks about the process of create a feature at Dreamworks, about artistic choices in the film, and about KFP2 in general, I particularly like how she describes the use of 2D animation in the film as a 'language' for Po, it's a completely. Ew way of looking at those fantastic 2D segments in my eyes, but amazingly true. Good stuff.