"This is Punk Rock...not Bach!"

Douglas Hudson is an animator, musician and educator currently serving as Associate Professor and Chair of the Student Academy Award winning animation department he established for the Kansas City Art Institute in 2004.

His minimalist approach to animation ranges from stream of consciousness abstraction to short narratives using experimental digital & analog techniques. He also produces and composes all the sound and music for his films.

At Warner Brothers Online in Glendale California, he animated for the online Flash-based cartoons Gotham Girls and Lobo, and was a member of the first team of animators to produce original Looney Tunes shorts for the Internet.

He is currently working to develop a new Digital Media program for KCAI and on a new film about some very nasty snakes and one very unfortunate bird
(“Tale of the Naive” Expected release date: December 2012).

Hudson earned a B.F.A. degree in animation from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and an M.F.A. degree in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA under the mentorship of Jules Engel.