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Mike Stern is a DreamWorks animator who was busy on Bee Movie and the new hit Kung Fu Panda, and is now toiling on Monsters vs. Aliens. DreamWorks Animation, where he started in November 2006, represents Stern's first job in character animation. So he must be fresh out of school, right?
Incorrect.
Stern had a successful computer graphics career going at global ad agency JWT in New York and subsequently at post house Brand New School and, later, at some San Francisco-based video game developers. He earned a hard-won master's degree in digital imaging and design from New York University. But Stern was not a character animator, and he eventually realized ...