David Wolter wins 2012 Student Academy Award for Animation Film EYRIE
David Wolter won the top prize in the animation category at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 39th Annual Student Academy Awards on Saturday night in Beverly Hills. He won for his short animated film, "Eyrie," which he made in 2011  during his second year as a character animation student at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. Wolter grew up in Colorado Springs and studied art at Augustana College, S.D., before coming to California, who lives in Newhall with his wife, Amanda, currently he works as a story artist on feature films at DreamWorks Animation.