John Akre, Animator, Etc.

Watch the History Inspires movies I made through a fellowship at the Filson Historical Society.

Check out some of the stop motion animation I have been creating with the public at the Kentucky Science Center.

Here are some things that I noticed at various places I went to.

Find out about my Cyanotype Animations.

Check out some short animated loops I made in 2021 in a moving period of life.

I am an animator, a teaching artist, a videomaker, and I write and make books and comics. I have made over 100 animated shorts and four animated features that have screened all over the planet. I have over 20 years experience teaching animation and other media to young people in schools, after school, and summer programs. I have worked with many non-profit organizations and individuals to tell their stories on video, and have documented the city I live in and many of the things that go on there. I like history and community and creaky old forms of media, and these interests have driven me to combine them into my traveling stop motion animation studio, which I can bicycle to places and locations and create spontanteous cartoons with the public. I just like this stuff.

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Find out about my animated microfeature, Ben and Dopey

Find out about my Sloppy Films Animation Station.

Find out about Demolition Dreaming, my animated feature from 2016.

I started working on a new animated feature.

Check out my Just City project.

Find out about the My Northeast and Yours (My Place and Yours online) project for Art-A-Whirl 2020.

Check out my Drawing a Day project.

I'm writing occasionally about film in Marcus Guidance.

See what students in some of my teaching artist projects created.

Check out GreenJeansMedia.com, the production company that I co-own with my wife Beth.

Watch Filling the Void, my documentary about an incredible public art project.

Find out about Bing Thisby, my animation archaeology and graphic novel project.

Danse Macabre, a public animation project at the Minnesota Orchestra

I am a teaching artist, an animator who makes short and feature-length animated work, a comic book artist and writer, and create documentary video work. Check out what I can do, read about me, and hire me to do some work for you!