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Feb/03-present             9 Story Entertainment              Toronto, ON
Animator/Designer...and more

• Currently the Storyboard Assistant Director for the upcoming television series entitled Best Ed which is now in production with The Cartoon Network and Teletoon.
• Heavily involved in many aspects of Best Ed pre-production.  Working closely with the creator/director, I designed most of the main characters and many of the secondary characters. I also created stock animation, designed props and had a great deal of overall creative input.
• Character Design Supervisor for Futz, an animated series produced for Teletoon. In addition to designing characters, responsibilities also included assigning work to designers, holding meetings, overseeing and critiquing all character designs, reporting directly to the creator/director to ensure designs meet the shows high quality standards on schedule.
• Character designer for Yummi-Land, a direct to DVD release, based on the children's toys.
• Animated and heavily involved with Seasons 1-3 of the award winning Peep and the Big Wide World. Winner of the Emmy Award for “Outstanding Children’s Animated Program”, Gemini Award for “Best Preschool Series”, and the “Award of Excellence” at the ACT Awards (Alliance for Children’s Television)
• Animated Season 5 of Jacob Two-Two, based on the children’s books by Mordecai Richler (YTV).
• Storyboard artist, designer and animator for Double-OH-Futz presented at Mipcom Jr. ‘05 in Cannes, France.
• Designed, implemented and documented a new Flash library system for Season 2 of Peep and the Big Wide World, which simplified the animation process and greatly optimized production time.  This organizational system became the standard used for all future 9 Story Entertainment productions.
• Heavily involved in design and animation of the Gemini nominated animated special If the World Were a Village, based on the children’s book.
• Designed characters and animated the demo for Best Ed presented at Mipcom ‘04 in Cannes, France.
• Designed the covers and gift box for Peep and the Big Wide World  Season 1 DVD set.
• Animated the pilot of Foolish Girl. 

March/02-present                Canvas O’ Brad                                                
Owner/Director/Animator/Designer/Author…and everything else

Canvas O’ Brad is my freelance art, animation and design business. I have successfully completed many projects for a very wide variety of clients.  Some examples include...

• Designed a printed Christmas postcard for delivery to customers, and other website holiday illustrations and headers. (Helix Gaming Inc. St. John’s, Antigua).  (Nov/06-Dec/06)
• Animated and did re-shoots for the Class of 3000 commercial, a television show which airs on The Cartoon Network. (Cuppa Coffee. Toronto).  (Sept/06)
  
• Created illustrations and an innovative website header depicting an entire neighborhood with random animations playing throughout. (Helix Gaming Inc. St. John’s, Antigua).  (July/06-Aug/06)
  
• Created a 67 second animation plus 3 minute slide show timed to music for a wedding reception.  The animation depicted the Bride and Groom’s “love story”.  (N.Y.C.).  (Oct/05-Dec/05)
  
• Created two 3 ½ minute animated shorts used as Thanksgiving and Christmas promotions. (Helix Gaming Inc. St. John’s, Antigua).  (Oct/05-Dec/05)
• Designed and animated the highly rated online Flash gameThe Black Knight available at www.heavygames.com (Brain Jam Studios, Toronto).  (Jan/05-Feb/05)
  
• Created an Ogre mascot and illustrated images for The Ogre.ca, an online video game store based in Toronto.  (Oct/04-Jan/05)
  
• Wrote the chapter entitled “Character Animation and Personality” for the text book entitled Flash MX 2004: Games Most Wanted (Friends of Ed Publishing, Birmingham, UK).  (Published 2003)
  
• Created a character and a 6 minute animation to be used as an interactive training tool for CIBC telemarketers. (Upward Motion, Toronto).  (April/04-June/04)
  
• Animated a 15 second opening for an online Flash game for Claire’s accessory stores. (Spore Productions, Cambridge).  (Sept/03)
  
• Created the logo, mascot, can label, shipping label and images for Golf Dust. (Aug/03-June/04)
  
• Re-designed the mascot Quickquack and created many illustrations.  Created the mascot and logo for Doctor Flash (Toon Doctor, Montreal). (Nov/02-Aug/03)
  
• Designed and animated three online Flash games: W.R.A.X, Top Secret Kid’s Interface Escape and Super Dudes X-treme Pinball (Super Dudes.net, San Francisco).  (Nov/02)
  
• Co-created/directed Joey the Slave, a 30 second claymated short which aired on the television program History Bites for The History Channel.  (June/02)
  
• Designed and animated the isometric, tile based online Flash game Miller Caps for the Miller’s Music Tour Promotion   (Crash Media, Toronto).  (April/02)
  
• Designed and animated the online Flash game Domino Dementia which was released on Shockwave.com in April 2002.

May/01-Sept/02           Dot Com Entertainment Group              Oakville, ON
Head Animator/Designer/Game Designer

• Scripted, designed and animated e-cards used for birthdays and client promotions.
  
• Created mascots and graphics for a wide variety of clients.
  
• Responsible for promotional animations for company events.
  
• Responsible for proposing designs and concepts to company board and clients.
  
• Conceived and designed online themed lottery games such as Pull Tabs and Scratch Cards.
  
• Produced Flash and Gif banner ads, for online gaming clients.

Sept/98-April/01             Sheridan College                   Oakville, ON

• Graduate of the three-year “Classical Animation program”.
• Final grade for second year animation was 100%
• Award for second highest grade in first year Character Design.

OSSD obtained in June of 1996.

• In June 0f 2005, my Flash-based online portfolio was featured as “Site of the Week” at www.learnflash.com
  
• In September 2002, I spoke at the BD4D Conference (By Designers, For Designers) in Toronto.  After I explained how I create Flash gaming animation to designers and clients from around the world, I unveiled a two-player, caveman battle game I designed, animated and co-created named Boom Boom Smash (ugh!).
  
• In August of 2001 and 2002 I conducted workshops in classical animation techniques for summer camp children.
  
• I have a large amount of training and experience in dramatic arts and improvisation.  The most unique example being my experience as an extra in the 1996 film The Long Kiss Goodnight starring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson.

I am an extremely versatile individual who consistently strives toward innovation, originality and entertainment in the projects I undertake.  I am a passionate and dedicated worker, whether this be as part of a team or independently.  My extensive freelance experience has given me the interpersonal and organizational skills to surpass the desires and expectations of clients and co-workers, while building strong, lasting business relationships.  I enjoy learning new skills as well as inspiring and helping others to grow.

• Macromedia Flash--------------Expert animation, design & library skills. No ActionScript coding experience.
• ToonBoom Storyboard Pro---Intermediate. Able to create, edit and export leica reels and edit audio tracks.
• Adobe Photoshop---------------Intermediate. Able to create, paint and alter images. Fun for parties.
• Adobe Premiere-----------------Average. Able to import, edit and create video.
• Adobe Dreamweaver----------Beginner. I was able to make this resume.

I plan to learn 3D modeling and animation with software such as Maya and Z Brush as soon as time will allow.

References will be made available upon request.