Matt Strangio

Matt Strangio
Titles and Organizations

Assistant Professor, Computer Game Design, CVPA

Contact Information

Campus: Fairfax
Building: Art and Design Building MSN: 1C3
Email: mstrangi@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-5734

Biography

Matt Strangio is an assistant professor teaching game design courses in animation, modeling, rigging and real-time game/interactive development. He joins after a 16 year career as a professional animator having worked in video games (EA/Maxis), vfx (ILM and Tippett), and 12 of those years in feature animation (Pixar Animation Studios). Matt wants to be able to leverage his experience in animation and filmmaking to help teach students who are passionate about the creation of real-time and interactive games and projects, and help them to create high quality animation as part of that experience. Matt holds a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design from UCLA (‘97) and a certificate in Advanced Character Animation Studies from AnimationMentor (‘06). In addition to teaching at GMU, Matt has taught animation courses at AnimationMentor (online) and The Animation Collaborative (Emeryville, CA).

Degrees:

BA in Graphic Design, UCLA, 1997
Certificate in Advanced Character Animation Studies, AnimationMentor, 2006