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About this event
Mississippi State University Alumni Fellow Valerie "Val" Berney Cripps of Los Angeles, California, is presenting a lecture titled "Follow Your Dreams: Secrets I Wish I Knew" in the Colvard Student Union's third-floor Fowlkes Auditorium. Before receiving a 1997 Master of Fine Arts degree in electronic visualization from MSU, Cripps earned bachelor’s degrees in art history and Italian from Indiana University. Over her professional career, Cripps has taught doctoral courses on special-effects production software, worked as a freelance FX artist and an FX animator with Disney Feature Animation. Her work has appeared in “Big Hero 6,” “Life of Pi,” “Spider-Man 3” and “The Chronicles of Narnia,” among other notable movies. Currently CEO for Valtopia—a company she founded—Cripps originally is from Joplin, Missouri, but was reared in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Come take advantage of this opportunity to learn tricks of the trade from an expert animator!