SELECTED CREDITS
Jan. 1999	Noggin: "World Run" Station ID Creator, Co-Director, Designer, Animator, TD - Created award winning station ID for new childrens' TV network with Lev Yilmaz. - Performed using eclectic digital puppetry methods.
1999- 2001	Sesame Street: Elmo's World Anim. Director, TD, Character builds - In charge of digital puppetry effects on Sesame Street's "Elmo's World." - Developed performance method, programmed custom capture UI and take management system.
1999- 2000	Smile Time Puppet Theater: Birthday Party Creator, Co-Director, Animator, TD - Created popular web series for Protozoa/Dotcomix with Lev Yilmaz. - Chosen by Animation World Network as #2 of the "10 Best Web Series of 2000".
Fall 1999	This Modern World Co-Director, Animator, TD - Created 52 episode web series based on Tom Tomorrow's comic strip, with Lev Yilmaz. - Performed using eclectic digital puppetry methods.
Early 1999	Dr. Science Director, TD, Animator/Puppeteer - Created 52 episode web series based on NPR radio spots, with Lev Yilmaz. - Showcased on Warner Brothers' site, entertaindom.com.
Spring 1998	Max The Mouse Puppeteer, Designer, Anim. Director, Programmer, TD - From the "Virtual Ed Sullivan Show," shown on UPN/Paramount in 1998. - Written up in Digital Magic Magazine, 8/98.
Jan. 1998	MTV's Virtual Bill Clinton Animation Director, Character TD - In collaboration with Scott Dikkers ("The Onion").
Early 1997	Floops Anim. Director, Puppeteer, TD - The first serial 3D internet cartoon.
Summer 1996	Squeezils the Movies Squeezil animator - Movies for a video game. On Odyssey Productions' "Computer Animation Celebration" video.
Spring 1995	Blue Man Group: "Opening" Animator, TD - For a special edition of the Blue Man Group's "Tubes" in Los Angeles.
ORIGINAL PIECES
Pet projects	Bad Night (Cutout puppets; Fall 1998) Hair Frizz and Insomnia (Cutout puppets; Summer 1998) Protozoa Doo-Wop (Bumblebirds; Summer 1998) We Need a Ride, Shiteye, and Targit Practice (Two Hick Monkeys; Spring 1998) We Should Go (Bumblebirds; Nov 1997) A Scary Spider (Fall 1996) Conscience (Fall 1996) Most of these (1997-) were created with Lev Yilmaz; we generally directed, wrote, and performed everything together. Broadly, Lev does writing and audio and music, and I do animation, though the lines do blur a lot.
SCREENINGS
Pet projects	Noggin Station ID Jan. 1999 3D Design "Big Kahuna Awards" (Finalist, Corporate Logo/ID), Annecy/NPAR 2000   Bad Night Aug. 1998 Prix Ars Electronica, 1999 (Honorary Mention, Computer Animation), Resfest '99, Mill Valley Film Festival, Anima Mundi, South By Southwest (Honorable Mention), New York Animation Festival, POST Magazine awards, DeCordova Museum "Art With a Sense of Humor" exhibit. Online at Animation Express (HotWired), and Film.com   We Need a Ride Mar. 1998 Animation Express (Hotwired), Film.com, Mill Valley Film Festival   Bumblebirds: "We Should Go" Nov. 1997 World Animation Celebration (Best Performance Animation), Anima Mundi, International Children's Film Festival, ASIFA-SF   Conscience Sept. 1996 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival, Anima Mundi, Festival du Dessin Anime, ASIFA-SF
Official projects	MTV's Virtual Bill: Tamagotchi Jan. 1998 SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater, Prix Ars Electronica, Cartoombria   Floops; Scary Spider July 1996 and 1997 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival, World Animation Celebration (Best Animation for the Internet)
Puppetry	Child's Play Dec. 1994 - DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
PRESENTATIONS
Aug. 2001	Elmo's World: Digital Puppetry on Sesame Street.   SIGGRAPH 2001: Animation Sketches. Described the real- time puppetry methods we created to bring 5 furniture creatures to life for Sesame Street, and how this process fit into the production. Also presented by invitation at Siggraph-NYC: "Digital Puppetry in Real Time" event (Mar. 2001).
Aug. 1997	Motion capture and puppetry.   SIGGRAPH 1997: Animation Sketches. Showed creative uses of motion capture, including puppetry-like performing methods, unusual mappings between performer and character, and motion exaggeration. Also presented by invitation at MIT Media Lab, Broderbund, Bay Area Puppeteers Guild, Mocap S.I.G. at Siggraph, and others.
Jan. 1998	Animation on the Internet. CGIX-Amsterdam (invited speaker) Spoke about Protozoa's VRML work, the production process for "Floops," and doing animation on the net.
PUBLICATIONS
Animation	deGraf, B., and Yilmaz, E. H. (1999). Article about Protozoa's methods in performance animation, Animation World Magazine, Feb., Issue 3.11. Yilmaz, E. H. (1997). Motion capture and puppetry, Siggraph 1997: Animation Sketches.
Perception	3 published papers in academic perception journals (1994-1995).