Animator/illustrator professional with extensive background and expertise in animation and character and concept design in a wide gamut of styles.  Vector and bitmap illustration, traditional and Flash 2-D animation.

Skills and Expertise:

• Traditional Animation Principles and Techniques
• Storyboards
• Photoshop CS
• Flash 8
• Illustrator CS2
• Toon Boom Studio 2.5
• After Effects
• Traditional drawing and painting media
• Familiarity with Maya 3D production
• Artist management 

Principal Accomplishments:

• Fifteen years experience in all aspects of animation from film to video game production, specializing in character animation.

• Thirteen years in the video game industry.

• Two and one half years as Art Manager for a leading children’s game developer, supervising and coordinating a staff of more than twenty 3-D and 2-D artists.

• Books:

~You Can Draw Animals Right Down to the Skin (2002).  Author, illustrator.

~Fine Art Studio Drawing (2004). Author, illustrator.

~The Disney Villains Scrapbook (2005). Principal illustrator.

Work History Hilites:
1997 to June, 2005, Humongous Entertainment, Bothell, WA.

• Five years as artist/animator and lead artist, contributing content to over twelve shipped games.

• 2 1/2 years as Art Manager. 

• Successfully facilitated complete conversion of studio from all 2-D content to all 3-D (Maya) over a period of four years. 

• Presented paper at GDC 2001: “That Extra Dimension: Differences in Thinking Between 2-D and 3-D Animators.”

1994 to 1997, Starwave Corporation, Bellevue, WA.

• Concept and character artist and animator for Castle Infinity, a pioneering massively-multiplayer children’s game.

1992 to 1994, Manley and Associates, Issaquah, WA.

• Background artist and animator. Contributed to games such as Activision’s Pitfall Harry: The Mayan Adventure. 

Previous to 1992.

• Freelance and independent animation, producing over 35 cel-animated television commercials and films.