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Carol Keiffer Police attended the Art Center College of Design, majoring in illustration with an emphasis on fashion and editorial illustration. She was the initiator of the ART Center Image, a student contributed newspaper that has continued to the present day. She graduated from Art Center at the top of her class with distinction and was invited to join the faculty there, where she taught figure drawing and fashion illustration for four years. Police began her film career on the Ralph Bakshi animated feature “Lord of the Rings,” responsible for the styling, layout and background painting of five specialty sequences of the movie.  For the next three years she worked with Richard Williams (“Who Killed Roger Rabbit”) and Art Babbit as designer, stylist, animator, effects artist, director, art director and background painter, receiving an American Broadcasters Association Award and inclusion in FILMEX. She also worked with Glen Fleck, Inc. as a color consultant on projects for IBM. Police supervised the background department for the 3-D animated cult classic “Starchaser.” She trained artists for production, in addition to keying sequences and traveling to Korea to train a crew there.  After the birth of her second daughter, Police joined Marvel Productions as a key layout and development artist on the feature “Little Nemo,” working with Brian Froud and Corney Cole. Shortly after Nemo, Police began work at Disney Television Animation to work as a stylist, painter and color key, art director and development and Photoshop artist. Warner Bros. then recruited Police to help start a new animation division.  She recruited artists and helped develop training programs.  Police acted as key art director for development and presentation and art director for their first feature, “Quest for Camelot.” After leaving Warner Bros., Police worked as a location development artist on “Shrek” and taught at Cal Arts. She then joined Disney Feature Animation, where she developed the movie “Sweating Bullets” with directors Mike Gabriel and Michael Giamo.  She did production design on “The Snow Queen” for Disney, doing character and costume design, as well as location and color styling. She is currently spearheading Made in Paradise Productions, Inc., a new animation company with her partner, Disney veteran Karen Anne Keller.

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