Art Direction and Visual Development for animation and publishing
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
1001 Nights
Directed by Mike Smith, created by Yoshitaka Amano for the LA Philharmonic. a 24 minute hand colored watercolor 2D animated film. Responsible for visual development, art direction and painting/animating for the LA crew. 1997-98.
I am an art director, visual development artist, and background painter. Some of my credits on film projects have been as an effects animator as well. I also work closely with the overseas studio making notes to keep the design consistent.
Clients
Disney TV Animation
Disney Toon Animation
Disney Publications Co
Bill Melendez Studio
Jim Henson
Film Roman
Klasky-Csupo
Kurtz&Friends
Hyperion Studio
Acme Filmworks
Wild Brain
Duck Soup Produckions
Books Published
Walt Disney Co - "Tinkering Tink", "Art Lessons by Bess" (painted illustrations, character and background)
Film Credits
The Motel Life
The Simpson Movie
Princess Stories
Lilo and Stitch II
Rugrats in Paris
The Wildthornberry Movie
Rugrats go Wild
1001 Nights
TV/Video Credits
Fancy Nancy, Disney TV
Sofia the First, Disney TV
The Avengers, Film Roman
Happily Ever After, Hyperion
Special Achievements
California Arts Council, "CAC Arts in Education Demonstration Project Grant", 2002
Creative Fellowship, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1991 and 1993