Joseph E. Merideth is an animator and educator who has been a fixture in Chicago’s animation community for 30 years. He has worked as a story artist and character animator for commercials, television, video games, and feature films including Boxtrolls and ParaNorman (for Laika), and projects Green Eggs and Ham and Klaus. Joseph’s animated short, Stubble Trouble, was nominated for BEST ANIMATED SHORT at the 74th Annual Academy Awards as well as an Annie Award nomination.
In addition to creating personal animation work Joe has actively collaborated on several video and installation projects with other Chicago based artists.
Joe has over 20 years of animation education experience teaching storyboarding, character animation and animation production at the college level as well as animation classes for 6th-12th grade students.