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Industry Experience - Animated Shorts

    Thanatopsis

Lead Background Artist

Independent Team

  February 2018 - January 2019

• Received animatic from story artist and spoke with the director to dictate background style, pulling references and creating a look.

• Used style references to create fully colored backgrounds.

• Responded to critique over email and weekly meetings, revising accordingly.

• Software Used: Photoshop CC 2018

 

    Nomad of Nowhere

Background artist 

Rooster Teeth

February 2018 - April 2018

• Received layouts from story artists over Google drive and used existing backgrounds as color and style references to create fully colored backgrounds.

• Responded to critique over EMail, revising accordingly. 

• Software Used: Photoshop CC 2018

 

    UFC - Ultimate Fairy Combat

Background artist 

Art Institute of Portland Student Project

August 2017 - January 2018

• Designing layouts from storyboards and taking them to completion as fully colored backgrounds.

• Software Used: Photoshop CC 2017

 

    Robotic Assistance

Background Artist, Clean-up Animator

Art Institute of Portland Student Project

March 2016 – September 2017

• Assisted with visual development, designing layouts and taking them to completion as fully colored backgrounds.

• Cleaned up rough animation.

• Responded to direction positively and revised accordingly.

• Software Used: Photoshop CC 2016, Toonboom Pencil Check

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Education

    Art Institute of Portland

2014 - December 2017

Media Arts and Animation - BFA

Dean's Honor Roll

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    Portland State University

March 2022 - Current

Comic Studies - Certificate

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