I am award-winning Director with over 8 years of directing/producing experience, specializing in computer animation.
I have directed more than 20 hours of television and won an Annie Award for Best Children’s Animated Series and was nominated for an Annie Award for Best Directing in an Animated Series.
In 2008, my team of directors was nominated for an Emmy Award® for Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program. The following year, Back at the Barnyard earned an Emmy Award® for Outstanding Animated Program Special Class.
The prequel to my first feature, a short film titled, Help Me First!, was shot in early spring and premiered with rave reviews at Fantastic Fest 2016. The website for the movie can be found at www.helpmethetmovie.com.
I have been teaching animation online for over 12 years. Most of that time is with Animation Mentor as well as teaching individual animation students around the world. In the spring of 2017, I started teaching at the University of Cincinnati. He’s helped build the animation program as the only teacher, fostering the Certificate of Animation program within the Digital Media Collaborative.
My first feature live action film, Beaten Path, is in the middle of securing financing of $2mm. I hope to shoot the film in the spring of 2021.
Finally, in my spare time, I created a software development company called Filmatick. We secured funding from a major grant, employing 6 people. We work with Final Draft. Our company’s flagship software, a pre-visualization tool for filmmakers, is now available for purchase. www.filmatick.com
If you would like to talk about preproduction reach out to my wife Lisa. lisa@filmatick.com. Tell her I sent you!
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Fantastic, Mike Gasaway! Congratulations on all your success!
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Amazing Mike Gasaway!
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Wonderful! Congratz. ⚘
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Amazing
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Thank you all for your kind words!
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What a rich career you have had so far. It's great that you are also training others. Congratulations on your awards and success. It will be great learning more from you in the various networking ops on Stage 32.
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Congratulations. What an amazing career.
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What an amazing resume!
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Hi Mike, amazing work. Does Filmatick fit into an Unreal virtual production pipeline?
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Congrats. Perhaps you will be the next great director since Spielberg that Cincinnati gives birth to. :)
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Hi Mike- thanks for friending me! I just joined and you're my first friend here (beyond the site admins). You have a super cool niche and it's inspiring. I'll be watching you:)
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Filmatick works in Unity.
Thank you for the connection, Mike!
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Thank you Mike. My Pre Production Committee is using your blog to jumpstart our committee.