OBJECTIVE:
To Continue to Work with Animation and VFX industry Leaders, applying my talent, work ethic, and many years of experience as a character animator to the production of high quality 3D animation.

WORK HISTORY:

January 2010 — Current
Prime Focus (formerly Frantic Films)
Feature Film TBA | Character Animator
Responsible for realistic, detailed, Animation.

March 2009 — December 2009
Tippett Studios
Cats & Dogs 2 | Character Animator
Responsible for realistic, detailed, character animation.

March 2008 — March 2009
FRANTIC FILMS
Feature Films: Twilight: New Moon, Wolverine, GI Joe, Dragon Ball | Senior Animator
Responsible for Animation, Pre-Visualization, Concept Development and assisting junior Animators.

September 2008 — November 2008
Technicolor
The New Daughter (Feature Film) | Senior Animator
Responsible for realistic, detailed, creature animation.

December 2007 — March 2008
CAFE FX
Speed Racer (Feature Film) | Animator
Responsible for Animating race sequences.

July 2007 — October 2007
GLOBAL MECHANIC
American Electric Power (commercial) | Senior Animator
Responsible for animation, Pre-vis, rigging modeling, and concept development.

July 2007 — September 2007
RACE ROCKS DIGITAL
Disney's 101 Dalmatians (CD ROM) | Character Animator (Freelance Part-time )
Responsible for creating sequences of animation.

October 2006-December 2006
ROCKET SQUAD
Hellboy (video game) | Cut scene Animator
Responsible for delivering quality animation working independently

July 2006-October 2006
ANIMAL LOGIC
Happy Feet (feature film) | Character Animator
Responsible for Facial animation, Lip sync, motion capture fixes, and key frame animation.

July 2005-July 2006
RISING SUN PICTURES
Charlotte's Web (feature film) | Character Animator (level 2)
Responsible for Character animation of the title character, spider web interaction and dynamics, camera tracking and shot setup.

May-July 2005
THE LAB
Happily Never After (feature Film) | Face shape modeler
Responsible for Modeling Lip sync/facial expressions, and character setups

May-June 2005
CHANNEL 7 AUSTRALIA, promos department:
"T.V. Man Promos" | Character animator/ 3D Artist
Responsible for Character animation, and prop modeling

April 2004-February 2005
MAINFRAME ENTERTAINMENT:
Stuart Little 3 (DVD Special) | Character Animator
Fairytopia (DVD special) | Lead Animator
Responsible for character animation and ensuring junior animators met quota and delivered quality work on time.

November 2003-March 2004
ARIFEX STUDIOS:
Gargoyles (feature film) | Character Animator
Responsible for high quality, realistic character animation, composited on live-action footage.

September 2002-September 2003
ABSOLUTE STUDIOS:
Blobheads (TV series) | Character Animator
Responsible for high quality, realistic Character animation, composited on live-action footage.

August 2002-September 2002
NEWLINE CINEMA:
Freddy vs. Jason (feature film) | Pre-vis animator
Responsible for modeling and animating characters, sets, and effects for the purpose of previewing, and trouble shooting VFX shots.

March 2002-May 2002
BARDEL ENTERTAINMENT:
Winnie the Pooh (Disney CD ROM) | Character Animator
Responsible for creating Character animation for an interactive CD ROM game.

November 2001-April 2002
JAMES BROWN (music video) | an Independent Project
Responsible for Direction, Storyboarding, design, character animation and all 3D elements.

June 2000-August 2001
SEXTANT ENTERTAINMENT:
Don't Eat the Neighbors (T.V. series) | Character Animator
Responsible for animating 3D characters to be composited with live-action puppets.
Arrgh it's the Mr. Hell Show (T.V. series) | Character Animator
Responsible for character animation.

SOFTWARE SKILLS: (in order of expertise)
Softimage XSI, Maya, Lightwave, 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop, and AE.

EDUCATION:
Vancouver Film School
Graduated 2000 (class 20) 3D animation and VFX program
Vancouver School Board (2004 part-time studies)
Drawing for Drafting
Capilano College (2002 part-time studies)
Graphic Design
Vancouver Academy of Art (1999 part-time studies)
Life Drawing, Anatomy for Artists

HOBBIES & INTERESTS: Travel, Photography, Education, Motorcycles, Drawing, Art, Fitness, scuba diving

REFERENCES: (email addresses available upon request)

Chris Spry
Head of 3D, The Lab Sydney
+61 (0)2 9439 5922

James Whitlam
Head of production, Rising Sun Pictures
+61 (0)8 8400 6400

Steve Melchiorre
Producer, Bardel Entertainment
604 669 5589