Celia Mercer

About Celia

• Assoc. Professor
• Office: 2412 Melnitz
• E-mail:
• Phone: 310-207-2102

Biography

Celia Mercer‘s animated films have won awards and have been exhibited internationally. In her current work, she combines abstractions of representational images with found objects to create a 2D computer animated film about different levels of exploration. Sound plays an important role in all of Ms. Mercer’s films; she acts as her own sound designer in works that range from complex, multi-layered sound collages to those that utilize just one precise and evocative sound effect. After receiving her MFA at UCLA in 1990, Mercer went to work in the interactive industry as an art director and interface designer. In 1996, she returned to UCLA, where she teaches traditional and computer animation, and works as an independent filmmaker today.