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Kenny Mirman

Founder / Creative Director, AURAgin 

Kenny is a 5-time Clio Award-winning writer-director, photographer, illustrator, designer, and breakthrough artist who uses the emotive power of storytelling & images to inspire people to see their authentic nature and the inner beauty of who they are.  

He was a senior animation designer-director on Disney’s 1982 original, Tron, Visual Effects Art Director on James Cameron’s Titanic, and designer of IMAX’s first 3D computer animated ride-film Race for Atlantis. Beginning in the late 70’s as one of the original pioneer-innovators of computer animation design & storytelling, he directed a list of breakthrough, award-winning TV commercials that helped to inspire a new world of contemporary animation.

As a live action director, Mirman wrote & directed #1-hit music videos for Platinum Record recording artists, including, Toni Braxton, Babyface, Jermaine Jackson and Al Green, for record labels Sony BMG, Capitol, LaFace, EMI, and television networks MTV, VH1, Disney Channel and BET.

As a veteran and devoted educator, Kenny is a visiting lecturer/teacher in art schools, universities, film production companies, animation studios, monasteries, children’s hospitals and jails. For the past ten years as a weekly volunteer life-story writing teacher, advocate and mentor to inner-city teenaged girls incarcerated in Los Angeles’ Central Juvenile Hall jail, he uses the art of writing as a tool for personal transformation and healing by helping young women facing a life of gang warfare and domestic violence find a path to self-value, hope and love. 

Visit here to see an historical archive of some of Kenny's breakthrough animation commercials, visual effects feature film-work, music videos and personal videos.

Kenny's talk at the Hammer Museum Billy Wilder Theater about the history of his animation work.

Vulnerable Truths. Some of Kenny's words about his experience as a life-story writing teacher to teenaged girls in jail.