Thursday, November 20, 2008, 7 PM

Tom is an Animation Storyboard Artist working in Los Angeles. He was born and raised here in Saint Paul where he attended Highland Park Senior High School. Moving to the East Coast, he studied illustration and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design.

In the early 90s, Tom was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation and worked on a long list of films including “Pocahontas,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Mulan,” “Tarzan,” ‘Lilo and Stitch,” and the yet to be released “Rapunzel.”

In recent years, Tom has storyboarded for Marvel, Warner Brothers, and Universal on projects featuring popular characters such as the X-Men and produced by visionary filmmakers including Tim Burton, (Director of “Batman,” “Edward Scissorhands,” and “Sweeney Todd”) and Timor Bekmambetov, (Director of “Wanted”).

Presently, de Rosier is working on an animated film directed by Gore Verbinski and starring the talented Johnny Depp (”The Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy”). Mr. deRosier will be visiting the College of Visual Arts to discuss his career from growing up in Saint Paul to his life as a working artist in Hollywood.

Thursday, November 20
Presentation 173 Western Avenue (at Selby), Room 404, 7 p.m.
The presentation is free and open to the public.

Visit www.cva.edu for more information or call John DuFresne at 651-757-4028 with questions.