ABOUT
Musa Brooker (that's 'moo-say') is a Los Angeles-based director, animator, writer and producer who has worked with such clients as MTV, McDonalds, Disney, Hasbro, Target, Honda, Netflix, Paypal, and Google. The Philadelphia native holds a BFA in Animation from The University of the Arts and an MFA in Experimental Animation from The California Institute of the Arts, where he was a Jacob K. Javits Fellow. When he's not working for larger animation houses, Musa can be found tinkering on projects at his own small studio, Platypus Pictureworks.
Throughout his career Musa has animated, supervised or directed various elves, trolls, cake, cereal, corn dogs, miniature cars, life-sized cars, a sponge named Bob, a mystery-solving dog, cybernetic fowl, tumbling leaves, celebrities fighting to the death, a talking tree, a group of Bratz, a tower of taste buds, a town of cougars, McNugget Buddies, robots in disguise, super powered sandwiches, real sandwiches, real people, an atomic-powered super lizard, imaginary mascots, a giant booger, a pickled diva, a sour milk carton, a singing tomato, a Super Bowl champion, a former First Lady, a Sith Lord, a Wookiee and a Goof.
Brooker has been a selection committee member for the New York Animation Festival and the Annie Awards. He has written for The Animation Journal, appeared as a panelist at Comic Con, presented at the Society for Animation Studies Annual Conference and lectured at Pictoplasma. Since 2010, Musa has been a faculty member at The University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Titmouse Foundation, a non-profit that works to provide opportunities in the animation industry for students from historically underrepresented communities. In 2022 Brooker was honored with the prestigious Silver Star Award for Outstanding Alumni from his alma mater The University of the Arts.
In his spare time, Musa enjoys listening to old school Hip-Hop and NPR, visiting Disneyland and voting. He is a nearly obsessive Beatles fan and despite being allergic to cats, Musa is proud papa to feline siblings Dexter Doo and the late great Barnaby Jones.
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