Rainmaker Entertainment Inc
Public Company; RNK; Animation industry
Director
August 2010 – Present
Rainmaker Entertainment Inc
Public Company; RNK; Animation industry
Previsualization Supervisor
July 2009 – July 2010 (1 year 1 month)
Image Engine Design
Previsualisation Supervisor (2008 – July 2009)
Bardel Entertainment
CGI Animation Director (2006 – 2008)
Mainframe Entertainment
[since acquired by Rainmaker Entertainment]
CGI Animation Director (1997 – 2005)
CG Supervisor (1995 – 1997)
Animator (1993 – 1995)
Director for nine years, with responsibility for producing films and television
shows in a tight timeframe, delivering the completed shows on budget and by
deadline. Duties as Director include designing and blocking all shots based
on a script and editing them into a video workbook, then assigning each shot
to individual animators, giving them direction in camera movement, character
acting and lighting.
Very skilled at taking a vision for a project from inception all the way
through to post-production, supervising many diverse teams along the way -
from Writers, Actors and Sound Designers to Modelers, Animators and FX
Artists - and making key decisions to shepherd that vision into a completed project.
- Directed two Halloween specials based on artist Jill Thompson's award-winning
children's books, Scary Godmother which broke Cartoon Network's ratings records
for girls 6 to 11 and boys 4 to 8.
- Created key sequences for live-action feature films such as 2012 and
Night at the Museum 2.
- Directed four long-format Direct-to-DVD features in three years.
- Developed, adapted and Directed the pilot for a mixed CGI and live-action
television series based on writer/artist Paul Chadwick's popular
Concrete graphic novels.
- Directed projects for such respected clients as Sony Pictures,
Fox Television, Lion's Gate Entertainment, Cartoon Network,
Hasbro, DIC Entertainment and King Features/Hearst Entertainment.
- Directed over 14 hours of high-quality CGI animation, ranging
from boys action to squash-and-stretch comedy.
- Pioneered animation techniques for CGI television as an Animator on
Reboot in the days when Reboot was the only series being produced in CGI.