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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Partner with clients and studios to design animated stories for purpose-driven brands, engaging animation, memorable designs, and bold illustrations; clients primarily in live entertainment, theatre, and museums and include Visa, Belvoir Theatre, Masters Athletics, McGrath Foundation, Barking Gecko Theatre, NSW Government, Hello Social Agency, and the New Zealand Civic Defense.Leverage a range of technical tools to create storyboards and illustrations, animated social ad units and posts, online web banners, digital signage, billboards, outdoor and entertainment screens, and animated GIFs.• Devise animated explainers for new product promotion and branding involving 2D character rigging animation and text animation; on some projects follow other designers’ storyboards and pre-existing templates to ensure consistency of animations.• Create social media content with character and text animation, formatting to a range of size dimensions.• Consult with clients on art direction, pitching ideas on scripts, early visual development, style frames and audio editing, explaining the animation process to those unfamiliar with animation/motion graphicsProject Highlights:Belvoir Theatre: worked on project to support new season of plays with only the poster design and a basic script to use for art direction; edited script into 60-second, 15-second, and 6-second versions and designed graphics that could be easily transferred to all multiple output sizes.Personal work: Continuously work on optimizing animation skills through creation of animated scenes bringing illustrations into AfterEffects, adding environment and character animations into scenes and using footage and audio SFX to enhance animation, creating both a visual and audio landscape to reflect how these scenes feel in real life

Sydney, Australia

Collaborated with diverse clients to pre-plan, execute, and create narrative and character animation, explainers, case studies, logo animation and social content; clients included Tabcorp, Art Gallery of NSW, Westpac Bank, Gallery of NSW, State of Origin, and Macquarie University.• Participated in art direction and pitching concepts in small but dynamic creative team design meetings.• Designed animated social ad units and posts, online web banners, digital signage, and animated GIFs.• Focused on 2D character animation, visual development, and editing on socials and visuals for entertainment venues.• Created animated explainers for businesses promoting new products or wanting to invigorate brand; involved 2D character rigging animation and text animation.• Leveraged filmed footage, rotoscoping and compositing using tracking software (Mocha AE)• Sought involvement from internal team to animate various sections of larger projects (i.e. animating selected scenes in time for another designer to work on after, animating pre-rigged characters into a background another designer has animated).• Mediums and platforms included socials, billboards, digital banners, outdoor screens, and entertainment screens. True Stories with Chris Bosh: my most significant project at Hank Mango comprised of a 3-part animated series with Chris Bosh narrating his most memorable moments in the NBA; led pre-production/production of 2 of 3 videos; critiqued and pitched storyboards and animatics, illustrating storyboards to particular design style, and contributing an extra illustration style as part of the original pitch so client would have plenty of options to choose from; as lead character animator, collaborated with a team of freelancers to animate the first video.

Seven Network is the highest-rated television network of the 5 major free-to-air networks in Australia; collaborated with Senior Designers, Creative Directors, and Producers to carry out projects from pre-production through final execution for both broadcast and digital platforms; worked across all channels: 7, 7Two, 7Mate, 7Flix, 7Food, 7Plus (online digital stream of all channels).Created end-tags from pre-existing movie posters and key art from new shows, designing exciting full frame graphics to fit with the end-tag designs and the feel of the promo edit.• Member of the Internal Graphics Team with Producers on TV promos for upcoming shows or movies, creating “full frame” animated graphics, highlighting key words from the script, with the freedom to design background and text as well.• Collaborated frequently with External Design team for OOH and digital ad campaigns, and the Output team to confirm that final graphics were ready for broadcast.• Mediums and platforms used were broadcast television, digital billboards, digital streaming, and social media.Project Highlights:• 7Two Murder Mysteries Rebrand: partnered with producer to shoot entire promo with live action footage; received green light to shoot in Seven’s studios and paid for props to create a moody atmospheric promo; supervised pre-production design and post production graphics.• 7Mate Animation Night: solo designer on 7Mate’s new animation line up after channel landed The Simpsons; designed a series of promos in different animation styles.• 7Flix Launch: served as part of the design team that road-tested and created new templates to drive the new channel’s branding

Pyrmont

Acquired as Junior VizRT artist (live on air graphics), advancing to graphics team as a Junior Designer as firm started implementing motion design/animation into workflows; eventually promoted to Senior Motion Graphics Designer.

Sydney, Australia

Working on set design in the art department for various scenes.

Sydney, Australia

Worked in the art department, including concept art, standby props and set design

Introduction To Costume Design, Costume Design

Diploma Of Screen Design, Cinematography And Film/Video Production

Bachelor Of Visual Communication, Games Design