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Freelance 3D animator 2024- Present Buck

Animated characters and environments on large-scale Ad campaigns

Animation Director 2020- Present Chromosphere LA

Led animation teams on projects for Netflix, Viacom, Meta, Discord, AirBnB, Epic, Cartoon Network, Lego, and more.

Provided feedback and notes for teams of animators both in office and remote.

Created 3D layouts for the animation team to work from

Provided 2D drawn storyboards for various client projects as well as internal projects

Freelance animator and Motion Designer Dec. 2023- Present MEISTER

Created 3D character animation for a short film project

Served as a motion designer on various client projects

Freelance Animator Sep. 2022- Dec. 2022 Comedy Central/ Viacom

Assisted on animation and FX for "Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens" season 3

Freelance Animator Oct. 2022 Ruggable

Helped with development of a new ad campaign using 2D animation

Senior Animator Nov. 2018- 2020 Chromosphere LA

Supervised animation on the majority of studio projects including “City of Ghosts”, “Steven Universe the Movie” (opening titles),

“Sinclair Snake”, “Yuki 7”, as well as various advertisements and shorter form sequences.

Freelance Animator Nov. 2017- June 2018 Chromosphere LA 

Animated on the “Steven Universe/Dove Body Confidence” campaign, the opening title sequence for the

“Carmen Sandiego” Netflix series, and the “Lenny” pilot for HBO. 

Freelance Animator Feb. 2018 - May 2018 Hero4Hire Creative 

Animated various characters for a short educational children’s series.

Animator June 2016 - Sep. 2017 Bardel Entertainment

Animated on season 4 of “Teen Titans Go!” for Warner Brothers/Cartoon Network. 

Freelance Animator May 2016 - June 2016 Planet Nutshell

Animated characters and motion graphics for a well known client project. 

Freelance Animator Dec 2015 - May 2016 Hero4Hire Creative 

Animated on a television pilot for Nick Jr.

Junior Animation Artist May 2015 - Dec 2015 CloudKid Studios 

Animated content for “Sesame Street”, and various other PBS properties.


SKILLS:

Adobe Animate, After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, 

Autodesk Maya, Toon Boom Harmony, Blender, Logic Pro

Cel animation, symbol-based 2d animation, 3d animation, after effects animation, 

Illustration, 2d compositing, video editing.


RECOGNITION:

Annie Awards 2020:

Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Video Game: “Sinclair Snake: Museum Mischief”

Nominee

Daytime Emmy Awards 2020:

Outstanding Main Title for an Animated Program: “Green Eggs and Ham Season 1”

Nominee

Daytime Emmy Awards 2022:

Outstanding Main Title for an Animated Program: “Green Eggs and Ham Season 2”

Nominee


EDUCATION: 

Massachusetts College of Art and Design​, Boston, MA 

Graduated 2015 

BFA, Major in Animation 

Kyosil, 3D animation mentorship program 2023


REFERENCES: 

Chris Turnham: Art Director and Illustrator: turnhamillustration@gmail.com

Denny Khurniawan, Art Director/Senior Visual Designer at Google- dkhurniawan@gmail.com

Eastwood Wong: Art Director at Disney Television Animation- Wongeastwood@gmail.com

Eusong Lee: Animation Director- leeeusong@gmail.com 

Keiko Murayama: Character Art Director at Netflix- mupayama22@gmail.com

Nelson Boles: Animation Director- nelsonboles@gmail.com

Sylvia Liu: Art Director at Chromosphere LA: sylvialiu.art@gmail.com


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