Kate Miller Animation

Kate Miller is a self-taught artist and award winning stop-motion animator born and raised in Oakland, California. She began sculpting with clay at a very young age and grew up with a love of film, acting, and puppetry. She has a black belt in karate and a Bachelor of Arts from UCLA. She has also studied acting but prefers to spend her time behind the camera, building sets, and moving puppets around miniature worlds. Kate has been producing her own animated films since 2010 and won awards for two short films at the Films for the Forest competition at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. In 2014 she ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to begin production on The Pirate Grace, a stop-motion film based on the true story of Grace O’Malley, the Irish pirate chieftain. Most recently, her quarantine-themed short film Two Ply Over the Cuckoo's Nest won Grand Prize at the KQED Homemade Film Festival.