DENNIS WOODYARD - Artist Guest

**** ARTIST & CREATOR ****

FLX Expo welcomes DENNIS WOODYARD to the Finger Lakes Comics Expo!!!! Dennis join us September 20th and 21st in the Vandervort Room of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY!!! Dennis was originally scheduled to appear at our last Geneva convention!

Dennis Woodyward is a Emmy Award Nominated Director/Producer! Rochester-area based, Dennis was born in New Jersey and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in NYC where he studied illustration. He was pursuing his commercial art career, first in illustration, designing several book jackets, and illustrating children's strip films of folk tales and myths.

In the late 1970s, he moved into the animation field, first on animated novelty record TV spots like "GOOFY GOLD" and "OLD COUNTRY FUN", then doing graphic animation and special effects for commericals and TV show opening including HBO Sports and ABC TV station IDs. With these, he earned two awards from the Broadcast Designers Association (in 1979 and 1981).

In the the '80s, he progressed to animation adventure shows. On his first series, "ADVENTURES OF THE GALAXY RANGERS", he was one of the original creative team, then designed characters and storyboarded whole episodes! From there, he moved to a staff position with Rankin-Bass working on "THUNDERCATS", "SILVERHAWKS", and "THE COMIC STRIP SHOW" (TigerSharks, Mini-Monsters, Karate Kat, and Street Frogs). He designed all the secondary characters for the last 30 "THUNDERCATS" shows as well as wrote two scripts: "Shadow Master" and "Well of Doubt." After Raskin-Bass closed up shop, he went back to freelance art assignments for HBO and King features. Next, Dennis was the Art Director and Storyboard Artist for a 30-minute animation special, "MERLIN AND THE DRAGONS," for Lightyear Entertainment, which aired on PBS and is now on DVD. He drew comic art on "CAPTAIN N" (Nintendo Comics) for Valiant Comics.

In 1994, Dennis moved to Los Angeles where he would continue to work on various television animation shows as Producer/Director including Universal's "EXO-SQUAD", Disney's "GARGOYLES", and Columbia Tri-Star's "MEN IN BLACK: THE ANIMATED SERIES." He joined Saban Entertainment in January 1998 where he worked on "BAD DOG" for Fox Family cable network. The following year, he was Producer/Director on Saban's "NASCAR RACERS" for two seasons.

After leaving Saban in April 2001, he served as Consulting Animation Director for Rankin-Bass' primetime Christmas special "SANTA BABY," which aired in December 2001 on Fox Network. Dennis was Storyboard Director on Warner Bros. animated series "OZZY AND DRIX" when he was nominated for a 2004 Daytime Emmy! He also did storyboards for "X-MEN: EVOLUTIONS, "ALIEN RACERS", "STAN LEE'S STRIPPERELLA", "LEGENDS OF THE DRAGON", "BIKER MICE FROM MARS", "TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES" "TUTENSTEIN", "FIREHOUSE TALES", and "BABY LOONEY TUNES." Dennis even did some "Direct-to-DVD" projects including "STAN LEE PRESENTS: THE CONDOR", Marvel's "ULTIMATE AVENGERS 2", and "DRAGONLANCE - A DUNGEONS & DRAGONS TALE."

His motto is: "It is my goal to accomplish, in my life, something of value and do it with self-respect and integrity." -Cornell Wilde

Days Appearing: Saturday & Sunday

• Autograph: TBD
• Selfie: TBD

*NOTE: Online prices INCLUDE 8% NYS Sales Tax and 5% Website Fees. Autographs, Photo Ops, and Pro Photo Op sales are ONLY valid for the Guest(s) listed on the voucher and is non-refundable and non-transferable unless Guest appearance is canceled. All guest appearances are subject to change. ALL Pro Photo Ops are EXTREMELY LIMITED to 10-15 per timeslot to allow adequate time for Guests and Fans to interact and pose for their photo op. Admissions are non-refundable.