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(2008 - 2011)
Art Director and Production Designer
Art directed and designed for Sesame Workshop's Abby's Flying Fairy School.[expand]
Generated character designs, turnarounds, style sheets, style frames, costumes, props and sets. Communicated with SoftImage XSI artists and a team of designers to insure characters, sets and props were on model and cohesive throughout the season. Illustrated texture maps for models and digitally handpainted background plates for sets. Designed and supervised the coloring of the environments and characters. [final product]
Illustrated for Sony Picture's Community intro [expand]
Worked with Sarofsky Corp to develop the illustations for the "cootie catcher" model in the title sequence of the sit-com television series Community. [final product]
Co-Designed the characters and worked with Sarofsky Corp to develop the look of the title sequence for the feature film An Invisible Sign of My Own.
(2010)
Storyboard Artist
Storyboard artist on Pop Tarts commercial
(2004 - 2010)
Art direction for various commercials and web content in 2D animated, photo collage and digitally hand painted spots.
Clients included
The Colbert Report, Ford,
St Joseph's Medical Center, American Legacy, Threat, St. Mary's Medical Center.
Background Artist
Background artist (both digitally painted and photo collage) on animations for
Tide,
The Colbert Report,
American Legacy
and Threat
(2008)
Designed and directed for City Harvest's RescueFood.org web campaign.
Design and fabrication of characters and set, while supervising a team of builders. Worked with Director of Photography (using a SLR camera) and directed puppeteers and crew to produce the desired look. [final product]
(2005 - 2009)
Designed and directed Moonfishing, a film for Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Film series.
Production designer, writer, and director for a short animated piece featuring puppets and hand drawn backgrounds. Coordinated the puppet and set build. [final product]
(2005 - 2006)
Designed and directed educational "SurfSafe!"
Process included working with the client to provide the initial design, storyboards and character designs, that would be both entertaining and clear to children ages 12-16 and instigated a converstion with them about the dangers of digital communications with the students. Shorts were shown in Long Island (NY) schools.
[final product]
(2005 - 2006)
Illustrated Young Adult fantasy novels
Full color cover and black and white interior illustrations for J.T. Petty's Young Adult books The Squampkin Patch: A Nasselrogt Adventure, and Clemency Pogue: The Scrivener Bees
(2003 - 2006)
Illustrated childrens picture books and graphic novel
Illustrated Alice Low's childrens picture book Blueberry Mouse and Richard W. Friend's graphic novel Daniel and the Great Bearded One.
(1996-2005)
Freelance artist for on-air props and production
Illustrated concept designs, character designs, storyboards, and other various visuals on projects for such clients as Virgin Slims, Disney, Mattel, Reeses, Kraft, RC Cola, Quaker Oats, Miller Lite commercial and Dove commercial
(1998 - 1999)
Illustrations for web site content
Illustratated interactive "Magic Storybook" for website including Cookies Can't Laugh
, Girls Can Do Anything
, Goodnight Grover
, Light's Out
, and A Silly Sandwhich for Bert
.
Illustratated digital postcards for Sesame Street's website post office.
(1997 - 1999)
Illustrated and designed for interactive museum and web installations, including characters, environments and user interfaces.
Illustrated and designed for interactive museum and web installations, including characters, environments and user interfaces.
(1996 - 2008)
Puppet and promotional design for international puppet & theater troupe
illustrated promotional media for theater shows, including Carnival of Samhain, Doctor Faustus and The Ballad of Phineas P. Gage
(2001 - 2005)
Art and animation director for multi-media, expirimental produciton company
Animation director on real-time animation system Kabuki. Overseeing a variety of characters, both 2D and 3D, incuding classic Sesame Street characters.
(2007)
Storyboard artist for nationally reknown commercial house
storyboard artist for Diesel commericial
(2003 - 2004)
Pre-production artist for innovative commercial house
Storyboards for Televisa commercial
(2006)
Pre-production and on-air illsutrations for world-wide advertising agency
Storyboard artist for Starters commericials
(2005)
Pre-production artist for film companys
Character and concept art for production
(2001 - 2007)
Concept illustrator for New York based fine artist and installation artist
visualized concepts for installation art proposals
(1999 - 2004)
Inbetweener, inker, and clean-up draftsman on traditional animation and After Effect compositor for interior ambiance videos to be shown in the Marvel Mania, the LA based Marvel Comics themed restaurant.
(2004)
Illustrated concept design for Advair commercial
(2006)
Preproduction work on various commercials
Ingeenie Studios 
(2002 - 2003)
Character designer for various projects
(2002)
Set design for Trina's "Told Ya'll" music video
Edgeworx
(1999)
Character design and key frames for Tom Tomorrow's "This Modern World" episodes, to be aired on Saturday Night Live, including episodes Nuts and Wallstreet
MadApple Films
(2005-2006)
Traditional animation for title sequence for Windows, an indepenedant film by Shoja Azari
70/30 Productions
(2000)
Clean-up and After Effects compositing on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim series SeaLab 2021
Alt Digital
(1999)
Art direction, animating and After Effects compositing on Tony Millionaire's Maakies shorts to be aired on Saturday Night Live
awards
2011 Newport Beach Film Festival - Audience Choice Award [for Moonfishing]
2011 Dragon*Con - Audience Choice Award [for Moonfishing]
Society of Illustrators
2002 Dimensional Salon
1996 Recipient of the Starr Foundation Award
1996 Finalist in Student Scholarship Contest
Jim Henson Foundation
2008 puppet grant for Ego
2002 puppet grant with Drama of Works
2000 puppet grant with Drama of Works
computer knowledge
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Illustrator
HTML
Corel Painter
special skills...
puppeteer/puppet maker
sculptor
education
Parsons School of Design
(Division of the New School for Social Research)
New York, New York
Illustration Major, BFA
School of Visual Arts
New York, New York
Stop Motion Animation Class
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