Stephen Brooks Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Brooklyn, NY, US

Under my freelance business Rubber Onion Animation I have worked for clients all over the world making game animation, advertisements, and broadcast content for networks such as Comedy Central, TBS, Fox, ITV, ESPN.Here's a short list of highlights I have worked on under Rubber Onion Animation broken down by section:- Comedy series (Brickleberry, Paranormal.

Character Animation on Apple's "Wonder Pets: In The City"

New York, NY, US

Late Show Christmas Special "The Indict-Mare Before Christmas" narrated By Liam Neeson

Atlanta, GA, US

Character Animation and Rigging on FX's Archer (Season 14).

New York, NY, US

"Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News" (season 3 of the property) was a weekly half-hour topical news comedy show on Comedy Central airing after The Daily Show. As Supervising Animation Director I lead a team of roughly 40 people to create episodes with an average of a 4 day turnaround. We primarily used Adobe products (Photoshop, Character.

New York, NY, US

As part of Late Night Cartoons, every year there's an animated special produced for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. I was involved in the following (linked):"Whose Boat Is This Boat?" (Nov 2018)"Stephen & Jon's Cartoon Thanks-Travaganza" (Nov 2018)"Once Upon Impeachment" (Dec 2019)"Stephen's Animated Monologue" (May 2020)"Election Knight Rises" (Nov.

New York, NY, US

"Fairview" was a weekly half-hour animated comedy on Comedy Central after South Park.We primarily used Adobe products (Photoshop, Character Animator, After Effects, Premiere).

New York, NY, US

"Tooning Out the News" was a daily animated news show (5-10 min) on Paramount+ for Seasons 1 & 2. As Animation Director I lead a team of 25-35 people depending on the season. We primarily used Adobe products (Photoshop, Character Animator, After Effects, Premiere).

New York, NY, US

Lead Animator (even numbered episodes) on "Our Cartoon President" series for CBS/ShowtimePrograms used:Adobe Character AnimatorAdobe After EffectsAdobe Photoshop

Animated a character for Jim Carrey's KIDDING (S02E07) on SHOWTIME for the "Best-O's" cereal segment.Programs used:Adobe Character AnimatorAdobe Photoshop

New York, NY, US

Animation and editing for a explainer videos and presentations & motion tracking and animation of graphics onto videoPrograms used:Adobe After EffectsAdobe IllustratorAdobe AuditionAdobe Premiere

New York, NY, US

Animated characters for a motion graphics ad piece for Morgan Stanleyskills: animation, after effects, motion graphics

Character animation for a Karaoke themed explainer videoPrograms used:Adobe After EffectsAdobe Photoshop

Animated cut-out style sequences for a bit on the June 6, 2018 episode of FULL FRONTAL with SAMANTHA BEE on TBSPrograms used:Adobe After EffectsAdobe Photoshop

New York, NY, US

Using provided CG and AI assets, used Adobe After Effects to create motion graphics for an explainer video

Taught 3rd to 5th grade kids introductory animation concepts after school. A curriculum was built to introduce design, planning, and animation for hand-drawn and stop-motion techniques.

Edmonton, Alberta, CA

Using provided assets, animated characters and backgrounds for explainer videos (linked media) primarily done in Adobe Flash

Designed characters and turnarounds for episode 3 of YouTube RED's "Paranormal Action Squad" (the dog and the elephant were the primaries)

Creation of explainer videos for Regenexx

I was tasked with improving an animated pitch I had made to ZCF in 2010. Techniques involved were frame-by-frame (hand drawn) animation, subtle video and sound edits, and adjusting of the original timing to fit the new framerate.

Oakland, CA, US

Creation of animated music video about avoiding the presence of toxins in clothing accessories from name brand stores.

Cincinnati, OH, US

Animation on assigned scenes for mostly TedEd animated videos

Creation of animation for the series "Mau Faux" (ep 4, 5 & 6)

Creation of explainer video for Smartcove (produced by TeamRespond). All visuals except for the logo were created. Audio was provided but needed to be edited. Very smooth project working with "the Marks"

Various character animation work implemented in an online, interactive game "Wingaroo." An intro video for the game (linked here) was also created with another animator I brought into the project, Alan Becker.

London, London, GB

Creation for the animation on "I Heart Moshlings" music video

Los Angeles, California, US

Completed an animated short "Ghostbusting Wall Street" to be entered in their fourth competition.Directed a team of 7

London, London, GB

Created a viral music video ("Moshi Moshi Moshi" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9rLfNghMNE) for the game "Moshi Monsters"

Character Animator for 5 minute pilot (tentative project title: "Netlets")

Created turnarounds and model sheets for characters as well as a couple animated shots in the first episode of a season order of BRICKLEBERRY on Comedy Central

Responsibilities included all of the following to accomplish a series of 45-60 second animated clips at the rate of two per month under the daughter company "Global Sports Fraternity":-Character Design-Caricaturing of Famous, Notable People in sports-Storyboards/Animatic-Animation(one of the shorts made it on SportsNation on ESPN2, July 16th 2009)

I created a simple "blob" and animated it moving in three different ways. This was contracted for inclusion in a Lynda.com tutorial by one of their Pros.

New York, US

Responsibilities included all of the following to accomplish a series of 30-60 second animated clips at the rate of approximately one a week:-Character Design-Caricaturing of Famous, Notable People in the news-Storyboards/Animatic-Animation

London, London, GB

“Character Animator” for an online interactive game (moshimonsters.com). Responsibilities included storyboarding, rough animation, animation, and finally optimization of clips showing emotions for the characters that players would adopt.Characters: Furi, Luvli

Responsibilities included all of the following to accomplish an 80 second clip within the live action music video for the band "Sweet Konpa": -Character Design-Storyboards / Choreography-Animation-Rough Layout for Promotional Poster