1. References

Helena Giersz-Uszac is an animation director and character designer. She studied graphic design, majoring in animation at the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Warsaw. In 1979 she began her animation career at Studio Miniatur Filmowych.

In 1991 she moved to the United States and began working for Sesame Street and Nickelodeon creating short multimedia animations.

In 1997 Helena founded Funline Animation Studio where she began collaboration with Nick jr. on a new show called Nina’s Pop-up Puzzle. After the first six characters(Dora, Boots, Benito, Tico, Swiper, and Isa) got approved, she was commissioned to produce a pilot for the series which later became known as Dora the Explorer.^[1][2]. The series took off, transforming Funline Animation into a Dora-focused production studio. Over the next fifteen years she created over a thousand characters for the series and over twenty online games for Nick Jr online ^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

In 2004 she produced animation on two computer games starring Clifford, the Big Red Dog for Scholastic^[11]. In 2004, she made a film titled, Do Other Things, which received the Best of the Fest award at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival ^[12]. During that same year, Helena started working on character designs for the Nick Jr. series Go Diego Go!^[13]

In 2011 she created a documentary about Polish composer, singer and guitarist Krzysztof Klenczon. She also produced a photo album book about The Red Guitars, the most famous Polish rock band of the 1960’s.^[14]

2016 she began working on her independent movie based on her experiences of growing up in Eastern Europe and moving to the US.

References

https://search.schlowlibrary.org/Record/200854/Description

http://www.nlb.gov.sg/biblio/12719934

http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2012081702/

https://parklandlibrary.ca/spm/search/item/542074

https://www.facetsdvd.com/Best-of-the-Fest-p/dv95332.htm

http://tolland.biblio.org/eg/opac/record/772141

http://link.langleyadamslib.org/portal/Dora-the-Explorer-Doras-Halloween-Funline/IGXe6aQAekY/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166227/reference

http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=11115907

https://www.sfp.org.pl/osoba,10312,1,105436,Helena-Uszac.html

http://www.library.clamsnet.org:90/search~S2?/aSuar%7Bu00E8%7Ds%2C+Jean-Claude./asuares+jean+claude/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=asuarez+alexandria&1%2C1%2C

https://roanoke.northtexaslibraries.org/eg/opac/record/1292904?keywords=expand...;qtype=subject;copy_depth=1;query=identifier%7Cgenre%5BChildren%27s%20television%20programs%20--%20United%20States.%5D

http://www.funlineanimation.com/

http://dora.wikia.com/wiki/Pilot

http://gdansk.naszemiasto.pl/artykul/quot10-w-skali-beaufortaquot-film-o-krzysztofie-klenczonie,889229,art,t,id,tm.html

https://www.giantbomb.com/funline-animation/3010-5023/developed/

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