Susan Bradley is a title designer, graphic artist, and art+motion graphics
director in feature film.
Bradley has had the priviledge of working alongside an incredible list of film directors, editors and artisans in both live action and animation. Her background ranges from traditional
optical animation & type design to motion graphics and 2nd unit art
direction.
Her passion of film titles was recognized at the American Film Institute
(AFI), where she taught "Theory and Practice of Film Title Design" to its
Digital Media fellows for three years. At AFI Susan created and moderated
the Harold Lloyd Masters Seminar, "From "The Seven Year Itch" to 'Seven': 50
Years of Film Titling and Design."
Bradley was Manager of Walt Disney Studios' Title Graphics Department for
six years, bringing computers to the Department in 1994.
As Disney's lead title designer, she produced a vast array of title sequences and
graphic design on films such as Toy Story 2, The Big Kahuna, A Bug's Life,
Runaway Bride, Romy & Michele's High School Reunion, Toy Story, The Lion King, Quiz Show, and numerous others*.
Since leaving Disney Studios, Bradley has gone on to design titles and graphics for many live action films, including Gossip, Out of Time,
Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries and Dark Water, Pierce Brosnan's The Matador, CBS' first season of Numb3rs & Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth. She reunited with Pixar in 2005 to work on Ratatouille and thinks she may have found home.
With her film communities in Los Angeles & San Francisco, Bradley is also
developing a documentary on a history of title design through
the work of her former colleague and hero, Harold Adler, who was Saul Bass'
lettering and production artist for most of Bass' film career. Harold retired
the same year he left us, at age 89. He is truly missed and revered beyond
expectation.
Susan is also a proud member of VES, the Visual Effects Society.
*see separate filmography or the www.imdb.com database under "Susan Bradley (I)"