Ernie Gilbert Email & Phone Number

Burbank, California, United States

Toluca Lake, Ca

Glendale, Ca

FInding and staffing art crew; Determining and communicating a unified, show-specific design style to a team of BG, Character and Prop Designers; Setting a paint style/color pallet for the show; reviewing and approving all designs and layouts, color styling and BG Paint for 20 22-minute episodes of a new children's animated program; reviewing all prop and character rebuilds and color BG's from vendor studio, and supplying appropriate draw-overs and notes in each case; Assuring that a new animated project consistently meet the standards expected of the Nick Jr brand.

Burbank, Ca

Art Director for Fairly Oddparents, Season 9.

Character Designer for multiple series, including 'The Fairly Oddparents', 'Tuff Puppy', 'Fanboy and Chum Chum', & 'El Tigre'

Designed Main character Line-Up, including Kitty Katswell, The Chief, Keswick, Snaptrap, Birdbrain, and The Chameleon, as well as episodic designs.

Csun Art And Design Center

Taught the principles of animation drawing, with a focus on character design. Areas covered included: Solid, 3-dimensional construction, essential elements of design, volume consistency, squash and stretch, appeal, proportion, silhouette, expression, posing, line of action, contrast, style, and research. Students were required to produce a variety of character designs, character line-ups, expression sheets, character model sheets, and turnarounds.

To observe and quickly adapt to the styles of various production, and create designs/illustrations that seamlessly fit into the individual world of each project.

I briefly worked as a character designer at Educational Adventures, while between seasons at Nickelodeon. Absolutely great team of people there!

Art Director for "The Fairly Oddparents", seasons 5 & 6.

Freelance Character designer for "Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends", Dexter's Lab", and "Powerpuff Girls"

Provided the singing and ukulele playing for Chippington Skylark III, in The Fairly Oddparents episode: "The Good Old Days".

Storyboards, Character layouts, timing, etc

2-D character Animation, Character Design

Character Animation, Design, Drawing, Film, Story

Studied Animation (Kevin Johnson), Character Design (Sue Nichols), Animation History (Norman Klein), Film History, Story Development (Ken.

B.A., Theatre

Studied Acting, Advanced Acting, Directing, Classical Styles, Dialects for the Stage, Voice Production, Costume Design, Make-up design.