Amy Edwards was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. When she was 5 years old, she fell in love with Walt Disney Animation, and Cinderella in particular. Seeing the singing mice and birds create Cinderella's lovely pink dress was enough to convince her to pursue a career in art. Her parents supported that decision and provided as many art supplies as she needed. They even entered her in adrawing contest at the age of 6 (and she didn't do too shabby -- winning third place among 40 kids). Over the years, as she immigrated from Indonesia to Canada, and eventually to California, she remained focused on her dream.
In 1994, she enrolled at Alhambra High School. As a student at AHS, she enjoyed art classes and became a cartoonist for the school newspaper. Each summer, she would work on her own projects, one of them a 36-page fully illustrated children's book, titled Giselle, inspired by the world famous ballet. For college, she attended California State University, Northridge, due to the school's excellent reputation for serving deaf and hard of hearing students. It was during her junior year where she won a summer internship at the company of her dreams: Walt Disney Feature Animation. She competed with 400 other applicants for one of the 15 coveted spots.
The internship was an incredibly experience for Edwards, and when she graduated, Disney asked her to return as a full-time employee. She worked on two of their feature films: Atlantis and Home on the Range. Gradually, her supervisors began to notice her ambition and determination. When some of these supervisors left Disney, they asked Edwards to join the artistic team developing Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. This was the first film where she established herself as a CG artist.
Edwards designed shots for Sky Captain for two years, and after the show wrapped, she went on to help create many more feature films, including : Fantastic Four, Eight Below, Underworld: Evolutions, Constantine, Sky High, Fever Pitch, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Monster House, Open Season, Spiderman 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Beowulf, Speed Racer, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. Recently, Edwards returned to Disney to work on their CG-animated feature, Bolt.
Currently Edwards is working on Cats and Dogs 2 at Sony Imageworks studios. She lives in the West Los Angeles with her husband, Chris Edwards. In her free time, she loves to draw and take vacations to Brazil. Now that she's realized her childhood dream, Edwards has set a new goal for herself; to having one of her graphic novels published.
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