Background
Elepaño was born and raised in the Philippines.
Elepaño was born and raised in the Philippines.
University of Southern California.
He came to the United States to study film at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1975. Some of his short works of experimental animation (Lion Dance, Pendito, Winter, Burp, and Take 5) were screened at the Asian American International Film Festival, New York, New York July 27, 1989 and at Filmex: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Short Film) March 14–30, 1979. In addition, Winter was screened at the Contemporary Animation from Los Angeles Artists Festival in 2006.
John Lent in Animation in Asia and the Pacific described Elepano as "the prime mover of computer animation" in the United States (p 177).
Elepaño was a Fulbright Scholar in 2001.
