Rebecca Hermann is a painter, animator, explorer, and decoder of the universe. She holds an MFA in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and teaches animation and computer graphics at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska. She is one third of the animation group called the Animutts. She enjoys dividing and combining her time between the complementary thought processes of both analog and digital investigation. Lately, she has been traveling to Southern France and other European countries to collect visual raw material.