Behind the Scenes with Stephanie Girard
Stephanie received her BFA in Animation in 2013 from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA. Previously, she earned a Certificate in Animation through the Rhode Island School of Design’s Young Artist Program, and spent nine years training in various two dimensional media, such as oil paint, watercolor, colored pencil, charcoal, and pencil. She earned a Silver Key Award from the Scholastic Art Competition for her work in both 2008 & 2009. In 2013, her short animation “Candyland” was selected to be shown during the graduation film competition in the BeThere!2013 Corfu (International) Animation Festival, held in Greece.
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Stephanie has a passion for storytelling and spends most of her free time writing, and is heavily influenced by her favorite childhood animated feature films and television shows. Her vivid imagination is one of her greatest assets.