Jane Cassidy
Jane Cassidy has been a professional animator since 2013 and is currently an animator at Pixar Animation Studios. She graduated from Animation Mentor in 2012 and returned to become a mentor. In her spare time Jane enjoys musicals, especially Phantom of the Opera, and playing the accordion. She currently teaches Animation Basics, the first Core Character Animation Course at Animation Mentor.
Jane’s Credits
Onward
Coco
Finding Dory
Monster’s University
Films
- Turning Red
- Onward
- Coco
- Finding Dory
- Monsters University
- Cars 3
Short Films
- Bao
- Snow Party Central
- Toy Story That Time Forgot
What Jane’s Students are Saying
100% Would Recommend Her!
Jane is very committed to her students, responds super quickly to emails, and grades by the end of Sunday, Which gives everyone plenty of time to address her notes. She prefers simpler but better-animated shots, so you can really focus on the movement. Overall she’s a very nice human being and gives cool insight into her job! 100% would recommend her!
Helpful, Well-Prepared, and Organized
Jane’s presentation and analysis of animation during the Q&A have been very helpful, well-prepared and organized. She showed me how the animation essential principles are working together in feature animation with examples. She encourages us to keep our assignment simple and instead try to do it really well. I appreciate her approach because it helps me focus on the essentials. Her eCritiques have been very practical. I look forward to the remaining half and learn from her as much as I can.
The Weekly Feedback is Outstanding
The weekly feedback is outstanding. Very concise and helpful, and not just for bettering the basic skills, they [Jane] give very good advice on things to look out for and why things are better done in other ways. This instructor definitely cares and is focused on making us better animators.
Always Open to Discussion
Jane is a very positive person, She is always open to discussion. She has a great way to express herself. In my reviews, her feedback was always clear and made my work go forward. I hope in the future I have more Mentors like her, people who care about learning. I am super happy with Jane.
Very Helpful, Detailed and Easy to Understand
Jane is such an excellent mentor, I’m so grateful that I had her for my first class. She’s very fun and easy to talk to. She’s great at giving feedback, and when she heard that I was new to animating with Maya, she sent me tutorials and ways to sign up for tutor sessions. And her weekly critiques are very helpful, detailed and easy to understand. I would highly recommend her.
Strived to Be as Hard Working as Her
I think Jane did an amazing job! She showed a really hard working side of herself and with her the industry as a whole. So with that I and many of my classmates became really motivated to strive to be as hard working as her.
So Helpful in Explaining the Exercises
Jane is Awesome! So helpful in explaining the exercises, and her e-critiques are excellent. She spends the time to really break down the assignments to help us improve on them, and get the most out of our creations. Very happy with Jane as my Mentor.
I Would Gladly Recommend Her to Anybody
It has been great learning from Jane. I love hearing about what it is like working for Pixar. It’s nice to hear a realistic perspective of what it’s like to work in the industry. Her critiques are very helpful and she offers a lot of information. I would gladly recommend her to anybody looking to take an animation course.
100% Would Recommend Her!
Jane is very committed to her students, responds super quickly to emails, and grades by the end of Sunday, Which gives everyone plenty of time to address her notes. She prefers simpler but better-animated shots, so you can really focus on the movement. Overall she’s a very nice human being and gives cool insight into her job! 100% would recommend her!
Helpful, Well-Prepared, and Organized
Jane’s presentation and analysis of animation during the Q&A have been very helpful, well-prepared and organized. She showed me how the animation essential principles are working together in feature animation with examples. She encourages us to keep our assignment simple and instead try to do it really well. I appreciate her approach because it helps me focus on the essentials. Her eCritiques have been very practical. I look forward to the remaining half and learn from her as much as I can.
The Weekly Feedback is Outstanding
The weekly feedback is outstanding. Very concise and helpful, and not just for bettering the basic skills, they [Jane] give very good advice on things to look out for and why things are better done in other ways. This instructor definitely cares and is focused on making us better animators.
Always Open to Discussion
Jane is a very positive person, She is always open to discussion. She has a great way to express herself. In my reviews, her feedback was always clear and made my work go forward. I hope in the future I have more Mentors like her, people who care about learning. I am super happy with Jane.
Very Helpful, Detailed and Easy to Understand
Jane is such an excellent mentor, I’m so grateful that I had her for my first class. She’s very fun and easy to talk to. She’s great at giving feedback, and when she heard that I was new to animating with Maya, she sent me tutorials and ways to sign up for tutor sessions. And her weekly critiques are very helpful, detailed and easy to understand. I would highly recommend her.
Strived to Be as Hard Working as Her
I think Jane did an amazing job! She showed a really hard working side of herself and with her the industry as a whole. So with that I and many of my classmates became really motivated to strive to be as hard working as her.
So Helpful in Explaining the Exercises
Jane is Awesome! So helpful in explaining the exercises, and her e-critiques are excellent. She spends the time to really break down the assignments to help us improve on them, and get the most out of our creations. Very happy with Jane as my Mentor.
I Would Gladly Recommend Her to Anybody
It has been great learning from Jane. I love hearing about what it is like working for Pixar. It’s nice to hear a realistic perspective of what it’s like to work in the industry. Her critiques are very helpful and she offers a lot of information. I would gladly recommend her to anybody looking to take an animation course.
Courses Taught By Jane
Courses may vary from term to term.
Animation
Basics
12-Week Course
Begin your character animation journey and master the basics.