Resume of Art Director

Title
Art Director

Primary Skills
Art/Creative Direction - Animation Direction - Interactive / Multimedia Web Design Leadership - Communication

Location
US-CO-Highlands Ranch

Posted
May-08-07

CREATIVE DIRECTOR / MEDIA / ANIMATION

Art/Creative Direction - Animation Direction - Interactive / Multimedia Web Design
Leadership - Communication - Problem Resolution - Resource Management
Training - Design Software and Hardware Testing - Technical Direction - Editing
Story Development - Character Design - Storyboards - Voice Recording
Television / Film / Commercials


Dynamic, creative director and project manager with experience in television, films and commercial animation, art direction and design. Proven ability to train and empower staff to develop the animation for the South Park television series. Produced over 160 episodes. Known for being the "go to" animator for difficult, specialty and experimental animation.

A high-energy, creative professional with an extensive background that includes directing, story development, episode selection, character design, technical direction, editing and the creation of interactive websites and games.

Ability to direct, coordinate and motivate production teams to create a powerful and synergistic climate in which creativity flows and positive results are achieved.

B.S., Journalism and Mass Communication, Emphasis in Advertising and Art Direction, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.


Key Achievements

Conceived and implemented a process that allowed the conversion of all episodes of South Park to a digital format and stored those files on the office server instead of on VHS tapes. Result: Saved the company $60K in production costs. Each episode is now available in digital format to every crew member at any time from any computer, including wireless laptops and Apple ipods.

Proposed a change in the current production sequence to allow for the set-up and the lip-sync phase to take place simultaneously. Result: Production time was reduced by more than 20% allowing the complexity and quality of the show to increase.

Generated a list of previous sequences from finished episodes and created a series of scripted to reuse previous animation for complicated scenes in a series, which includes crowd scenes and fighting scenes. Result: Animation time for complex sequences was reduced by 50%. Other animator began contributing recycled animation and the production now has an approved animation library.

Proposed a process that would allow the editor to render the current episode to the office server to maintain continuity during an on-going production to save time and energy. Result: The current episode can be viewed at anytime for any computer in the office, which reduces continuity errors.

Recommended that Widows computers be replaced with Macintosh G5s. Requested that the lead production team return early from hiatus for 10 days of professional training and the rest of the crew return 7 days early. Result: Production and crew members were certified on the new system prior to the beginning of the new season.

Led a select team of five to work out all of the possible pitfalls involved in converting the standard definition South Park Television series into high-definition. Result: The converted episodes are going to be released in the spring of 2007 for X-box and Play Station 3. All future episodes are going to be created with widescreen 16:9 framing at the 1080i resolution to allow for an easier conversion to high-definition in the future.

Proposed a color palette which all computers and software could share based on the Pantone color palette. Maintaining color quality, hue and saturation is difficult and can cost hours of production time. Result: Eliminated color matching errors pertaining to cross-platform situations.

Created workflow and protocols to handle the transition from standard definition to high definition. Result: A process that originally took 60+ hours of production crew time can now be completed in less than 10 hours with a new automated process.


Technical Skills

Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, AutoDesk Maya 7.0.1/8.5
Apple Final Cut Studio including: Final Cut, DVD Studio Pro, Motion, Shake
Adobe Creative Suite including: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver
iWork Keynote and Pages, Fontographer, Avid Media Composer, Discreet Combustion, Sound Forge, Corel Draw, Microsoft Office Suite, Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird


Career Summary

Supervising Animator
Lead Animator
Key Animator
South Park Television Series, Los Angeles, California
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Los Angeles, California
South Park High Definition Transfer, Los Angeles, California

Lead Animator
Team America: World Police, Los Angeles, California
Declare Yourself, Norman Lear Productions, Los Angeles, California

Director of Animation
Furry Carlos Productions, Los Angeles, California


References

Available upon Request

Certifications
See above


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