Nora Quinn Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, Ca

Hero ForgeHeroforge.com

Greater Los Angeles Area

Spearheaded all creative aspects of multi-million dollar animated TV show from conception to completion, using animated episodes to teach language learning to children in an immersive world of characters and storylines. Responsible for creative direction for the show, including style, character development, animatic and animation dailies, storyboard review, pacing, voice acting, music, and all stages of editing. Product was successfully launched to market in 2016.- Led the development and production for over 180 episodes, including 40+ characters, 300 backgrounds, and 1000+ digital art assets. Initiated development of production pipeline, conventions and asset management.- Direct communication with the CEO and executive teams on key project milestones and group discussion of conceptual development. Personally trusted to ensure alignment with company goals of quality and excellence. - Managed in-house and international teams daily; trained and developed staff’s efficiency; reduced storyboard revision time from 2 weeks to two days. Strongly emphasized anticipating complications and taking action to prevent delays from occurring by leading daily scrum meetings to improve communication. - Hired 12 staff and expanded to 16-person team while overseeing a broad network of on-call freelance talent to address special projects out-of-house. - Cultivated a strong personal relationship with Chinese animation studio CEO and his core team, building a foundation of trust that fostered open and honest communication, which enabled us to quickly identify and resolve problems and maximize productivity. Embedded with China studio for weeks to facilitate problem-solving and cooperation, resulting in faster turnaround and a reduction in pipeline inefficiencies.- Collaborated closely with producer and animation vendors to ensure delivery of a quality product under an aggressive timeline, on-time and within budget.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Led in-house animation revisions for season 1 of hit TV show "Rick & Morty" on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. - Collaborated closely with the show creators and supervising director to enhance the quality of the animation and storytelling. Praised by management for rapid solutions to key scenes.- Achieved creative excellence in a team environment to ensure success of show’s most pivotal first season.

Greater Los Angeles Area

For 6 seasons, helped breathe life into the engaging characters of massively successful Emmy award-winning animated show "South Park". - Thrived in the aggressive, fast-paced, and fluid production environment, remaining flexible and organized amid frequent re-writes and creative direction shifts.- Personally entrusted to flawlessly execute key scenes when approaching critical show deadlines.- Recipient of two Emmy awards, honoring contributions to award-winning episodes. "3D Animator for 'South Park', Comedy Central's highest rated and longest running television show. South Park has received numerous media awards, including four Primetime Emmy Awards, while consistently earning the highest ratings of any basic cable program. The show has also garnered a Peabody Award for Comedy Central."

Montreal, Canada Area

Created fast-paced action animation for "Naruto: Rise of a Ninja" videogame title,including cinematic fights and specializing in female animation; animation lead forSakura. All keyframe in 3DS Max. Pushed the character animation to achieve snappy anime-style motion.

Pre-vis and animation for the hit feature film "Blades of Glory"; worked in Maya to create skating performances of Will Ferrell and Jon Heder. Fast-paced project with emphasis on flexibility of abilities.

Vancouver, Bc

3D Animator for best-selling 'FIFA' next-gen console games.

3D Animation And Vfx, 3D Film & Animation

Awarded SCHOLARSHIP for short film "Can't Hurry Love", 2004

Fine Arts

Awarded SCHOLARSHIP based on quality of artwork.