stop motion artist bio Stephanie Dudley

photos by scarlet o’neill

Stephanie has worked as a motion graphics designer, director, and art director since graduating from OCAD’s Drawing and Painting program in 1997. Her work has won numerous PromaxBDA (and other) awards over the last two decades. Her first short film has appeared at over 50 festivals around the world, including TIFF, Annecy Animation Festival, and Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.​ In 2017 she was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award, for her work on CBC’s X Company Animated.

Motion graphics:

Stephanie has worked in broadcast design for over two decades, and has been involved in network rebrands for CBC, Teletoon, Family Channel, and YTV, as both Designer and Art Director. She has worked on the graphics for documentaries and many commercials, and currently works as a freelance compositor and infographics / motion designer for broadcast and medical animation projects.

Stop Motion:

In 2007-2011 she directed her first short film, Little Theatres: Homage to the Mineral of Cabbage, a stop motion poetry film. She is currently working on a second stop motion short film, Invisible Harvests.