Jo Meuris
Del Ray South
Email: Jo.Meuris@lmu.edu
Professor Jo Meuris is an Associate Professor of Animation in LMU's School of Film and Television. She completed her BFA in Animation at Concordia University in Montreal and her MFA in Film, Television, and Digital Media at the University of California, Los Angeles. An animator by trade, her work can be seen in well over a dozen National Film Board of Canada productions, where she worked for fifteen years as an animator, supervising animator, and lead compositor, and where she also directed two films of her own.
Jo moved to the United States in 2014 and spent nine years building an animation program in Las Vegas, where she taught animation, editing, and drawing before landing in Los Angeles in 2023 to begin the next chapter in her life teaching at Loyola Marymount University. She currently teaches Animation sophomore group production classes and upper-division animation production support electives, and is one of the Faculty Advisors for the SFTV LLC. Jo is passionate about helping students to develop their animation and film-production skill-sets as well as to improve soft skills for success in life such as time management, personal responsibility, group dynamics, and conflict management.
Jo's most recent film, Aurora, was completed in 2020 and is independently produced. The film has screened at scores of festivals, is being distributed by the Animation Show of Shows, and was presented at San Diego Comic-Con International to an audience of 4500 in 2022. Her next project, an experimental animated documentary on the migraine experience, is currently in development. Jo enjoys cooking, reading, and watching films, as well as windy days at the beach, spending time at the archery range, and going adventuring and fighting dragons for