Mark Stephen SmithProfessor Mark Stephen Smith has been teaching animation for nearly thirty years. He started with Video Animation, the very class that brought him to Auburn University Montgomery, where he got his Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design. In 2000, his firs book was published, The Lost World Adventures, based on characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes), which Prof. Mark adapted and illustrated. After his wife got a job offer in Atlanta, he moved to join her there, figuring it would be an opportunity to become a full-time animator at Cartoon Network. Although he tried out for a couple of shows, an hour-long tutorial on Flash (now Adobe Animate) opened his eyes to the possibilities of being a freelance anima¬tor. About this time, he began teaching at Westwood College, and started writing his second book, The Art of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning. He later joined Art Institute Atlanta, and more recently Kennesaw State and Clayton University online. He com¬pleted his Master's of Science in Information Design and Communication at SPSU, which is now Kennesaw State. Prof. Mark lives near Atlanta with his wife, daughter, a dog, and two birds. He produces freelance animation for TV commercials, book promos, and short films, and has won three Telly Awards and an Addy for Best Sales Video. His puppet film, That There Hawbit: A Redneck Puppet Parody, won a Bronze Award in the Best Parody Category of the Independent Shorts Awards, a Los Angeles Film Festival. Soon afterward, My Sketchy Recollection (an animated trailer for this very book) soon followed in the same film festival, this time winning a Gold Award in the Best Trailer/Teaser Category. The same film also won a Silver Award for Best Animation Short. Prof. Mark's website is Cartoonyville.com. Read More Read Less