Education:
2007 - Graduate:
School of Visual Arts (SVA) - Animation Major Courses completed:
Animation, Writing for Animation, Acting for Animation, History of Animation,
Perspective, Anatomy, Digital Compositing, Story Boarding, Animation Promotion,
Comedy Writing 1/2, Storytelling.
Computer Skills:
Adobe Photoshop,
Premiere, AfterEffects, Illustrator, Flash MX, Ms Word, Power Point.
Professional Experience:
2008: DMA Animation: Background and Prop
Designer for "Little Remedies" national commercial and informational video for
St. Jude's Children Hospital.
2008: "Elephant Song" By Tina
Gravenstien: Illustrations and cover art.
2008: "Our Town" By Michelle Morfitte:
Illustrations and cover art.
2008: "Family Word Reader" By Julie Rebboah.:
Illustrations and cover art.
2008: "Rainforest Romp" By Quinn
Fraser : Illustrations and cover art.
2008: "Thomas and the
Fire" By John Jongos: Illustrations and cover art.
2008: "ABC" Book By
Julie Rebboah, Lightning Bug Learning Corp.: Illustrations and cover art.
2008: "The Boy Who Wanted to
be Good at Baseball" By: Ben Orlando, TippyTales Inc: Illustrations.
2008: "The Cat Who Thought
he was a Raccoon" By: Ben Orlando, TippyTales Inc: Illustrations.
2008: "Siggy the Stink
Bug" By: John Morrow, Three Ring Publishing House Inc: Illustration and
Graphic design.
2008: "Tippy and Toby learn
a great new word: Adoption" By: Jim Donohue and Nerieda Howe:
Illustrations and Graphic Design.
2008: "Cabo Crosses
2008: "Oh Ostrich
Feathers!" By: John Morrow, Three Ring Publishing House Inc: Cover art and
Design.
2008: "My Great Sea
Adventure" By: Nada Paraskevas: Illustrations and graphic design.
2007: Bill Plympton's Plymptoons:
Color and clean-up for feature film.
2007: Changeling Studio:
Assistant Toy Painter. Clients Include: Fisher-Price/Mattel, Marvel
Entertainment, Toy Biz, Toy Island/Li & Fung, FAB/Starpoint, JAKKS Pacific,
Art Asylum.
2007: Head Character Designer for
series "Under Construction" pitch book.
2006-07: Internship at Jim
Henson's Workshop. Duties included: Puppet wrangling, puppet refurbishing,
feather work, prop building, general sewing/ building, butterfly design and
building.
2006: Internship at
Interspectacular Productions. Duties included: Character design and
development, writing and design.
2006: Design of digital jelly
fish for Target ad in
2006: Design for TV series pilot
"Grandma Bubble."
2005-06:
Internship at Noodlesoup Productions. Duties included: tonal design and
trapping for "Venture Brothers"-Cartoon Network.
2005: Internship at Dancing Diablo studio. Duties included: color design for
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (backgrounds, characters and props).
Flat coloring and inbetweening.
2005: Colorist for MTV commercial.
2005: Inbetweening for short film: "Siniestro." Shown in film
festivals around the world- Including ASIFA EAST.
2005: Website animation for "Animation Block Party Festival."
2004: Writer/Director/Animator for a public service announcement for U.N.E.S.C.O.:
Children Have the Right to Express Themselves.
2003: Writer/Director/Animator: Once Upon A Bubble.
2003 - Present: Commissioned portraits for clients around
2002: Xlibris Corporation Publishing, Book Cover Design for Are You An Angel?
Awards:
2009: 36th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Award
2004 - 2007 - Chairman's Choice Merit Scholarship (SVA)
2003 - 2004 Deans List
2002 - Scholastic Gold Key Award
2002 - Scholastic Best in Show Award
