Production Notes & Screen Credits - SYE Publicity

generated animation and visual effects division. She
has been responsible for recruiting artistic and technical
talent, developing a production pipeline to efficiently
create and manage CG film assets and developing CG
production and business strategies for the company. In
an effort to keep production costs down while still maintaining
high production value, Rowan has cultivated
relationships with some of the world’s top overseas
animation studios and has delivered high-quality animation
at extremely competitive costs.
Rowan was also responsible for heading up creative
development for Wild Brain. She has worked closely with
writers, directors and producers, developing screenplays
for feature films and television series for both animation
Rowan’s film and commercial projects have
garnered the most prestigious awards in the industry
including the Oscar ® , the Emmy, the CLIO, the Effie
and the Mobius, among others.
Prior to Blue Sky Studios, Rowan was a producer
of cel animation at Broadcast Arts Productions,
following her role as assistant to the director of
animation at Mark Zander Productions, both in New
York City.
Rowan has a BA in art history from the State
University of New York at Purchase. She is the
Northern California chairperson for Women in Toys
and is a member of ASIFA-Hollywood and the Visual
Effects Society.
and live-action productions. During her tenure at Wild
Brain, she sold an original television series idea to the YARROW CHENEY (Production Designer)
Disney Channel and an original feature film idea to
Universal Pictures; both properties are currently in
development. Rowan produced Wild Brain’s first CG
film, Hubert’s Brain, which is an original 17-minute
short that highlights the studio’s superb character animation.
Hubert’s Brain won first place in its categories at
the World Animation Celebration, the ASIFA-
Hollywood Annie Awards and Synthesis 8 in Belgium;
garnered the Silver Plaque at the Chicago International
Film Festival; and received a host of other accolades
from film festivals around the world. The success of this
film led Wild Brain into the feature film arena by
securing a $40 million co-production partnership and a
five-picture deal with Miramax Studios.
Rowan segued to Wild Brain from Blue Sky
attended the California Institute of the Arts from 1992
to 1995, before beginning his career as a character
animator at Turner Feature Animation/Warner Bros.
Feature Animation on Cats Don’t Dance, Quest for
Camelot and The Iron Giant.
In 1999, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding
Main Title Design for his opening title sequence to
Sony’s Dilbert series. Cheney went on to design Sony
Pictures Imageworks’ Academy Award ® -winning
theatrical short The Chubbchubbs! and Universal
Pictures’ Curious George.
In 2006, he directed, produced and production
designed The Very First Noel holiday special.
In 2008, Cheney joined Illumination Entertainment
as production designer for Despicable Me.
Studios in New York. In addition to producing Bunny
at Blue Sky Studios, Rowan was the executive
producer of the studio’s multimillion dollar feature
film and commercial production. She produced the
animation and digital effects for films including
MTV Networks/Geffen Pictures/Warner Bros.’ Joe’s
Apartment and The Bubble Factory’s A Simple Wish,
and was executive producer for Blue Sky Studios on
Paramount Pictures’ Star Trek: Insurrection.
PAMELA ZIEGENHAGEN-SHEFLAND (Edited
by) grew up in Minnesota and went to St. Cloud State
University. She lived in Los Angeles from 1980 to 2006
and moved back to Minnesota in 2006.
While in Los Angeles, she worked on commercials,
rock videos and television shows like Quantum
Leap, the Emmy Award-winning Northern Exposure
(from 1991 to 1995) and the pilot for Melrose Place
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