Dean Yeagle

About Dean Yeagle
Dean Yeagle has been in animation for most of his career, starting at a small animation company in Philadelphia during the summer while in art school. Then (after four years in the Navy) he worked for Zander’s Animation Parlour in NYC, becoming a director/animator/designer. Dean then opened his own company, Caged Beagle Productions in NY, and did TV commercials and animation for TV specials and feature films. He’s also designed characters for corporate clients and produced animation for CD ROMs, and illustrated comic books and children’s books. Since 2000, he’s done regular full page color cartoons for Playboy Magazine, and that has led to a series of self-published books sold throughout the world, sculptures, and original drawings for collectors as well as for galleries in Paris. Dean also had two books of his work published in Paris, and he appears at comic conventions including San Diego (every year), San Francisco, New York, and Angouleme and St. Malo in France.  Currently Dean is working on two new books, commissions for collectors and for an upcoming one-man show in Paris, continuing work for Playboy and a comic story for Dark Horse Comics.  More of his work can be viewed here.

Little Know Tidbit: Dean has visited with a Bedouin tribe in the Tunisian desert; he’s flown in a hot-air balloon; he’s swam off an anchored destroyer in deep, pitch dark water with a sailor watching for sharks with a rifle (in the area off Cape Cod where JAWS was supposed to take place). But mostly he sits quietly and draws. And he has the cutest granddaughter on the face of the Earth.

Mentor Preferences
Dean is hoping to pass along the things he’s learned from his ‘oddball’ career with the hope that my mentee will end up having as much fun as he’s had.  He hopes his mentee is familiar with his work so he could help them with basic skill improvement and portfolio revisions.  In addition, Dean is very knowledgeable with animation style character design, pinups, children’s illustrations, and advertising work and is willing to help in any/all of those areas.

Maximum Number of Mentees: 1

Maximum Distance: International

Language(s): English only

Preferred Meeting Times: Meetings in person might likely occur during Dean’s lunch breaks near his studio; on-line/virtual communication time/day is flexible and may vary week to week

To apply to become Dean’s mentee, click here.