LOS ANGELES — Musa Brooker, an animation pro with a two-decade career spanning stop-motion and 2D, has been named creative director at LA-based animation studio Six Point Harness (www.sixpointharness.com). Brooker joined Six Point Harness in 2019 to provide creative and artistic leadership on an upcoming animated streaming series, and quickly became a valued part of the team, particularly as the company transitioned to remote production. He will continue leading creative direction on that series, for which Six Point Harness is providing animation production. He will also oversee the development and production of additional upcoming projects.
“Musa is a phenomenally talented creative director, whose work has inspired both audiences and fellow animators, and he is also a peerless leader with years of experience as an animation instructor,” says Six Point Harness CEO Brendan Burch. “That makes him particularly invaluable to our creative teams as we develop new ways to collaborate and challenge ourselves to excel in a new work-from-home structure.”
Brooker is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Southern California’s John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts, where he has taught for 10 years. Previously, he was a stop-motion animation instructor at Cal Arts, from which he received an MFA in experimental animation in 2008. While at CalArts as a student, Brooker also was named a Jacob K. Javits Fellow.
Brooker has held positions at Will Vinton Studios, Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, Shadowmachine and MTV Animation, where he worked on Daria. Additional credits include work on Elf (2003), Celebrity Death Match, The Simpsons, Robot Chicken Star Wars specials and Tumble Leaf.