Animated Visions: Masterclass with Samantha Lee Suyi

Animated Visions: Masterclass Series

As part of Cartoons Underground industry-focused arm Animated Visions, we invite distinguished overseas and local filmmakers to share about their artistic journey, career experiences and advice to aspiring animation filmmakers and artists! In the past, we have had the pleasure of inviting esteemed filmmakers such as Oscar-nominated animation filmmaker Siqi Song and award-winning animation director and head programmer of GLAS Animation Festival Sean Buckelew to share and inspire! And for the first time, we will be opening these Masterclasses for the public to sign-up for FREE!

Masterclass with Samantha Lee Suyi: Story, Characters, and Life

About SAMANTHA LEE SUYI

Director, Disney Television Animation, Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Samantha Lee is a Singaporean director at Disney Television Animation, currently working on Marvel's action superhero series "Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur". She was also a story artist on Netflix's "Centaurworld", Warner Animation Group's feature film "DC League of Superpets", and Dreamwork's series "Cleopatra in Space". She was involved in a 2D animated interactive special project series by Netflix called "We Lost Our Human" (premiering 2023), and worked on the pilot episode for Netflix's "Oddballs" (premiering end 2022).

Before moving to Los Angeles, Samantha worked in local animation studio One Animation, where she was the lead story artist on 4 seasons of the Emmy-nominated sketch comedy series "The Oddbods Show". During her time at One Animation, she also had the opportunity to direct a few episodes, and be story showrunner for a season of the show.

Note: As the artist is based outside of Singapore, the Masterclass sharing will be conducted live via Zoom. Participants will be able to ask her questions about her experiences during a Q&A at the end of her sharing.

Sign up for our other Masterclass with renowned animation director Emily Dean on 15 October 2022 via this link!