Objective
- To fight the good fight, to climb the highest mountain, to change the
world... through animation.
Or, just create some great
entertainment, as an animator and character designer.
Work Experience
- Animator
- Renegade Animation,
Glendale, CA
- February 2005-Present
- Animator, "The Mr. Men Show"
- Supervising Animator, "Christmas is Here Again"
- Animator, Cartoon Network original movie "Re-animated"
- Animator, "Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi"
- Animator
- Lone Sausage,
Los Angeles, CA
- February 2005-Present
- Animation, "Dr. Tran Valentine Card", "Dr. Tran's Magic Talking Card",
- "Roybertito's :60 Spot
- Freelance Concept Artist
- Buena Vista Games,
Burbank, CA
- October 2004-Present
- Created beat boards & sample gameplay screens from thumbnail to final sketch for upcoming games
- Animator/Illustrator/Graphic Designer
- MedSN,
Culver City, CA
- October 2002-April 2005
- Animated and designed e-learning modules for medical and pharmaceutical companies
- Illustrated human figures and miscellaneous subjects
- Animator
- Hyperion,
Glendale, CA
- May 2002-September 2002
- Animated as part of a team on "The Proud Family Shorties" for the Disney Channel
- Assisted in character design of Get-Back Jack for "Toy Store-EEE" short.
- Clean-up character art for "Wasabi Warriors".
- Developed character art for two studio pitches.
- Freelance Animator/Character Designer
- Burbank, CA
- January 2002-Present
- Animated PG&E Microsite character through BlitzDS
- Designed IBM Webshare game intro character through BlitzDS for Yaya.com
- Animated IBM Webshare game intro character
- Animator/Character Designer
- Contract Animator
- MedSN,
Culver City, CA
- January 2001-July 2001
- Animated and designed e-learning modules for medical and pharmaceutical companies
- Illustrated human figures and miscellaneous subjects
- Flash Animator
- Icebox, Inc., Los
Angeles, CA
- August 2000-December 2000
- Animated as part of a team on "Starship Regulars" and "Mr.
Wong"
- Worked with shows' creators to maintain quality of pacing and animation
- Created assets and Flashed out characters and props
- Set up rough blocking of episodes
- Flash Animator
- Spunky Productions,
Inc., San Francisco, CA
- January 2000-July 2000
- Served as lead animator on "Aqua League Girls" Episode 1,
managed team of animators and redesigned characters
- Animated as part of a team on "Aqua League Girls," "Possum 'N
Weezie," "Davy Crockett," "BEMs," and "Richie Rich"
- Animated several projected "SpunkyTown 2000" channel and show
advertisements (unaired)
- Animated the first section of the projected "SpunkyTown 2000"
site introduction (unaired)
- Created hand-drawn animation for use as character assets in Flash
- Other tasks included character design, layout, storyboards, and clean-up
(ink)
Education
- Bachelor of Fine Arts, Illustration/2D Animation
- Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
- September 1995-December 1999
Artistic Background
- Experienced at drawing humans and animals; watercolor and gouache
illustration; character design;
layout; storyboards; conceptual pieces;
composition; inbetweening; clean-up; key framing
Software
- Adobe Illustrator 10.0
- Adobe PhotoShop 7.0
- Macromedia Flash 5.0 and MX