Melissa Spearman

Melissa Spearman is an animation production manager and a graduate of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco California. As one of the school’s first remote production students, Melissa worked as a Lead Producer at the school’s StudioX program while majoring in Animation & Visual Effects. The first film that she worked on while performing this role, Strawberry Mansion, made it into the first completely remote Sundance Film Festival in 2021. Prior to enrolling at AAU, Melissa was also an online student at Jefferson State Community College in Birmingham, Alabama.

Melissa’s time as a full-time online student has helped her to sharpen her abilities to troubleshoot problems and work collaboratively with large groups of artists from diverse backgrounds and locations. Melissa loves to connect and collaborate with artists who are passionate about their craft, and through her independent studies and endeavors to support her peers within the entertainment industry, Melissa has garnered a thorough working knowledge of remote production environments, production management techniques, and many of the virtual tools that’s being used by the industry’s leading digital artists.