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Andrew Roberts |
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Experience
August 2009 - October 2010, May 2011 - June 2012
Digital Animator, Rigger Curious Pictures, New York City Animated and rigged characters for the first and second season of Nickelodeon's Team UmiZoomi.
May 2008 - July 2009
Rigging Artist Little Airplane Productions, New York City As head of character rigging for season three of Wonder Pets on Nick Jr.,
I was in charge of the design, development, construction and programming of every character's
animation apparatus. This required coordination with directors, lead animators and designers to
make sure every character included all the functionality required for each episode.
March 2007 - May 2008
Character Animator Little Airplane Productions, New York City Animated multiple characters for the second season
of Wonder Pets for the Nick Jr. network and the first season of
3rd & Bird for BBC Television. Additional tasks included the
generation of background elements, production software script development
and character rigging.
August 2005 - February 2007
Character Animator Animation Collective, New York City Animated and created assets for multiple symbol-based
characters in Flash including the main character Mikey in the first season
of Kappa Mikey for Nicktoons Network and multiple characters in the first
season of Ellen's Acres for Cartoon Network. Programmed custom plug-ins
for Flash in order to streamline production.
June 2004 - August 2004
Flash illustrator, Flash Animator, Flash programmer Justice Planning and Management Associates, management consulting and training firm, Augusta, Maine Responsibilities included the creation of illustrations
for Flash presentations, and the design, programming and animation of
Flash-based interfaces used in e-learning presentations on the web
October 2003 - August 2004
Designer, Web Designer, Animator eXoloop, ecommerce/web development company, New York City Responsibilities included the creation of logos and
Flash elements, and the design of ecommerce and moving web sites
June 2003 - August 2003
Marketing Coordinator, Animator Saunders Mfg. Co. Inc., Office product and mobile device accessory company, Maine Developed and implemented marketing strategies. Responsible
for design and animation of banner ads for use in marketing campaigns
on the web and developing a Flash-based web site to showcase a new product
for the GameBoy Advance SP.
August 2002 - January 2003
Graphic Designer Responsibilities included working with the Maine Developmental
Disabilities Council and the Maine Family Collaborative to create logos,
brochures and advertisements for their organizations.
August 1999 - January 2000
Motion Graphics Animator nickandpaul, Design and branding agency, New York City Responsibilities included working with designers and
clients to translate brand identities and logos into animation, and sound
design and synchronization for animation.
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Education
School of Visual Arts, New York City
BFA Animation
School of Visual Arts, New York City
MFA Computer Art
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Computer Abilities
Platforms
Microsoft Windows
Macintosh OS Software
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe Flash Autodesk Softimage Autodesk Maya Programming and Scripting Languages
Actionscript 2, 3
Flash JavaScript API (JSFL) JavaScript HTML/CSS |