Joey Nilges Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Sunland, Ca

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Glendale, California, United States

Responsible for all significant elements of animation, scene planning and character design, including concept art, story boards, scene staging, thumbnail animation, and character dialogue development. Formulated character sheets with specific focus on principles of anatomy, movement breakdown and movement ranges to create captivating character performances. Engaged in regular meetings with creative and technical staff, and forecasted and estimated project costs in order to maintain allocated budgets. Created hydraulic, pneumatic and electric figure performance profiles, utilizing Maya, Motion Builder and Disney proprietary animation software. Traveled to sight locations to install new attractions and to perform rehabilitation on existing attractions. Collaborated with producers and art directors to finalize figure placement, sight lines and character performance.

Santa Monica, Ca

Designed various Simpson’s comic layouts from preapproved scripts. Illustrated tight-pencil cleanup art for inking and color.

Conceptualized and designed various characters from start to finish, complimentary to clients’ needs. Created plaster and silicone molds in accordance with complicated character design, and casted foam, latex, resin, plastic and silicone skins and parts. Performed all aspects of figure finishing, including electrostatic flocking, furring, feathering, foam fabrication, and detailed paint work. Responsible for show control and all figure animation and programming, utilizing PC-MACS and Gilderfluke, Inc. software. Administered suit performance, on-set puppeteering and field installations.

Responsible for helping establish the cinematic staging and camera positioning as directed by the film's director. Provided rough composition of shots prior to animation.Organized character work and prepared scenes for approval. Established character blocking, camera positioning and animated camera movement. Demonstrated a strong emphasis on visual storytelling including staging, composition, and editing. Worked in teams and participated in meetings, brainstorming ideas to work through story development and complicated scene production.