ANIMATION · VISUALIZATION · STORY
Michael Walsh is an animator, digital artist, educator, and director of Starlab at Texas A&M University. His work moves between character animation, stop motion, virtual production, motion capture, and emerging tools for visual storytelling.
Selected work
SELECTED WORK
2001 · STOP MOTION
Michael’s first paid animation job: a stop-motion holiday commercial for KIIS-FM and Rick Dees, created at 11:11 MediaWorks. The spot used hand-built puppets, digital still photography, 3D animatics, compositing, and a fourteen-day production schedule.
Lead Animator · Michael Walsh
Director · Roger Nall
FILM, VFX & GAMES
Work spanning performance capture, layout, virtual camera, and visual-effects production.
Character animation and digital production work across film, television, and games.
Performance, real-time tools, and virtual environments through Starlab.
Helping artists build repeatable workflows, not just complete a tutorial once.
ABOUT
Michael has worked in animation, visual effects, and games, and now teaches the next generation of artists and technologists at Texas A&M. His practice remains rooted in hands-on production: building models, capturing performances, testing tools, and finding the human point inside the technology.