CRAIG CALDWELL

Professor Emeritus

Film & Media Arts

  • Professor Emeritus
    Film & Media Arts

BIO

Craig Caldwell, USTAR Professor, Film and Media Arts, and a co-founder of the Master's in Games Program, Entertainment Arts & Engineering, University of Utah. Industry experience: Head of Creative Training at Electronic Arts, Tiburon Studio, and 3D Technology Specialist, Walt Disney Feature Animation (Mulan, Tarzan, Chicken Little, Bolt, Meet the Robinsons), Burbank, CA. My academic background includes serving as Head of the largest Film School in Australia at Griffith University and as Chair of the Media Arts Department at the University of Arizona. Conference presentations on Story include LightBox Expo '24,'25, Mundos Digitales '13-'16,'18, '22,'24, SIGGRAPH-Asia '15,'16,'21, SIGGRAPH '14,'16,'18,'20,'23, FMX '13-'25, View '23, Cinanima'23 GAFX '17 (Bengaluru), Kre8tif! '17 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), CTNX '18, Comic-Con'18 (San Diego), Sundance '15, Anima '19 (Argentina), and IS3 '17 (Seoul, Korea). Author of Story Structure and Development -A Guide for Animators, VFX Artists, Game Designers, and Virtual Reality, CRC Publishers (on Amazon).

INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Professor Emeritus
    Film & Media Arts1 Jul 2026 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Adjunct Professor
    University of Utah, School of Computing1 Jul 2011 - 30 Jun 2016

DEGREES

  • BFA, Art
    Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL1972
  • MFA, Art
    University of Florida, Gainesville, FL1974
  • PhD, Advanced Computing Center for Art and Design
    Ohio State University1989

FIELDS OF RESEARCH