Objective

Seeks valuable experience at an animation/design company.  Provides quality digital design, animation, illustration, comics, and storyboarding.

Education  

2006, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

BFA in Illustration

Double-major in Film/Animation/Video

Skills

Director-driven individual who can also work under supervision.  Draws and designs in a distinct style emphasizing expressive movement.  Great sense of timing and squash-and-stretch. Devotes to the material, completes projects in a timely fashion, and is organized and diligent, even during crunch hours.  Works with digital and traditional tools, in a group or independently. Experienced with MAC OS 10 and up, and Windows PC. Working/proficient knowledge of Adobe Flash, AfterEffects, Photoshop, Corel Painter, and good ol' paper and pencil!

Experience

2010, G2 New York, Flash animator in the interactive department, designing and animating web content. Current job

2010, Charles the Chef designed and animated intro to the website of Let's Get Cooking with Charles the Chef.

2010, Flickerlab clean-up animation for United Federation of Teachers "Buzzwords" commercial

2009, Casque D'Or Films  Off-site freelance.  Responsible for all visual elements, including animation, layout, design, and editing, for Queer Pets Adventures, a series of 10 1-minute episodes for festivals and mobile phones.

2009, Flickerlab character and effects Flash animation for Hooked on Phonics Learn-To-Read DVDs, the animated segments of the “Big Fat Joe” documentary, and NabiscoWorld.com’s Ritz crackers “Have Fun On A Dime” webisodes.

2006-2008, Animation Collective in New York City  Was my first, and currently longest, full-time animation job. Flash layout, character animation and design on Nicktoons Network’s Kappa Mikey, Dancing Sushi,  Speed Racer: The Next Generation, Johnson & Johnson’s “Touching Bond” webisodes, and Daystar Network’s The Cheesy Adventures of Captain Mac A. Roni.

2008, Do More Animation in NYC, hand-drawn animation on paper for Little Remedies children’s allergen commercial.  Learned basics of Animo.

2008, Six Point Harness in Hollywood, CA, part-time freelance, OFF-SITE
misc. character animation for intros to remakes of ATARI games for GAMETAP

2005, Summer internship at Fablevision Studios in Boston, MA
-character animation on the short film “ISH”.

Personal Animation

2006, Mime For A Day, 6-minute short.  Hand-drawn, with Photoshop and AfterEffects.

2005, SALSA!, 2.5 minute short.  Flash and Final Cut Pro.

Comics

2003-2008, on hiatus, Norm and Cory

2005-2008 on hiatus, Jack Magic