About Me

Name: Jeff Yandura
Age: 25
Location: Michigan
Hobbies: Drawing/animation, computers, web design, graphics, video games, anime
Favorite Anime: Bleach, Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Gungrave, GTO, Naruto, Ranma ½, Golgo 13, Gundam Seed, Rurouni Kenshin, Cowboy Bebop.
Favorite Bands: Yellowcard, Motion City Soundtrack, Blink 182, HIM, Prozzak, Weezer, Angels & Airwaves, New Found Glory, Jimmy Eat World, Fall Out Boy, Relient K.
Favorite J-Bands: Siam Shade, High and Mighty Color, UVERworld, Maximum the Hormone, L'arc~en~ciel, Ayumi Hamasaki, T. M. Revolution, Orange Range, Nami Tamaki, Beat Crusaders.
Awards: International Student Media Festival, Dallas, Texas, 2002
Jobs Held: Creative Designer for web design company.
Part of a team which created the Technology Division website for my college.
Flash Developer for a small business for 3 years.

I started using Flash 4 in Jan of 2000 and have been making movies ever since. I used to do movies for class project presentations which would always land me an A, even if my research project was lacking.

Back in 2000, I started my own Flash series called Action Gheen. It was about this kid in the video club at school who was a major suckup to the teacher. Ido and I made a parody of him, poking fun at Gheen, the video teacher and anyone else we could think of. Only a select few knew about the project and it slowly gained popularity throughout the school. It was a short series, only having 2 episodes, 6 mins each. We then worked on a 31 min Action Gheen movie for about our entire junior year. We had to break it up into 3 acts because Flash couldn't handle that many frames. In senior year, I ended up in the video club and my teacher found out about the movie. He thought it was hilarious and took no offense to it at all. He wanted me to bring in the entire series for the all the video classes to watch and everyone loved it. He advised me to submit a portion of it to an upcoming student media film festival in which I did and I ended up winning.

I have a 2 year degree majoring in Graphic Design and a certificate in Animation. I go to the College for Creative Studies in Detroit where I will get a 4 year degree in Digital Animation.