Dave Werner (class of 2002) started his career as an educator and is now a senior designer at Adobe working on their groundbreaking Character Animator software. Character Animator has been used by everyone from The Simpsons to ordinary people streaming video games to do live animation that makes motion capture-like technology for 2D animation accessible and quick. Learn about his path towards a creative career from not knowing where he would end up in college, and some of the lessons he picked up along the way.

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