Patricia Beckmann Wells is an independent animator and professor at Irvine Valley College in Irvine, California. Patricia holds a doctorate in Education from the University of Southern California, and an MFA in Cinema from the University of Southern California. Patricia worked on several movies as a digital artist for Warner Brothers Digital, then television with Film Roman. Patricia was an executive in charge of training for Walt Disney Animation studios and Dreamworks SKG, assisting Dreamworks to build studios in India. She has also authored several publications on 3D software, and most recently an art book, Face It! on how to use forensic evidence to model believable ethnically diverse characters in 3D.