Work Experience
February 2020 - December 2024
Sept 2012 - January 2020
January 2012 - August 2012
October 2010 - Dec 2011
Senior 2d|3d Animator
Wonderlabz/Anaxi-Roxor/Aristrocat · Cape Town, South Africa
Advanced experience in Spine 2D animation for gaming. As the studios primary animator, I am responsible for producing all aspects of animation for each game, which includes the rigging and animation of side characters; symbols & fx; creation of animatics; ensuring all animations' draw calls are kept to a minimum and are all assets and animation are game ready. Creation of animation workflow documentation updates on Confluece/Jira.
Communicating with creative director; illustrators; 3d artists; technical artists, QA and often the game producer(UK client-Roxor gaming).
3rd YEAR LECTURER
The Animation School · Cape Town, South Africa ·
Advanced experience in teaching character animation for production; and pipeline management, with emphasis on visual story telling; visual literacy; character animation, production management, art direction for animation, and cinematography. I was also the supervising director of all short films - working with a variety of International staff from Gobelins Paris. As well as designing the 3rd year curriculum animation content - and simultaneously managing 6-8 short films consisting of teams of 6-9 people per production.
https://theanimationschool.co.za/
LEAD CROWD ANIMATOR
Triggerfish Studios · Cape Town, South Africa ·
Responsible for managing a small team to saturate scenes with background characters for a feature film: Khumba. Also, as a lead animator, was responsible for a body of hero shots on lead characters. Communicating across multiple departments was key. Approval animation required from Animation Director and Director, final shot composition required approval by the Art Director. Communicating with Tech Leads allowed from the production of tools to make crowds possible.
https://www.triggerfish.com/
3D GENERALIST
Masters & Savant · Cape Town, South Africa ·
Responsible for all aspects of the 3d Pipeline required for various range of interesting advertisement projects. This required learning and becoming comfortable with various aspects of the animated medium with advertisements having quick turnaround times.
https://mastersandsavant.com/
Letters of recommendation
Education
2014-2019
Degree
Cape Town Creative Academy
BA, INTERACTION DESIGN
Always hungry to learn and expand. I’ve been studying part-time for a degree in Interaction Design. This involves Design; Front-end design; CSS bootstrap; adobe suite; Majoring in UX|UI - web and app design.
I have one subject left to complete – Contextual Studies CS300. Unfortunately, this was put on hold due the unforeseen circumstances of the covid19 pandemic.
https://creativeacademy.ac.za/
2008-2010
Diploma
The Animation School
DIPLOMA IN DIGITAL ANIMATION
Excelling as a student – the student short film I was lucky enough to be involved in, In Sickness won numerous local and international accolades. Eventually I went on teach at the same place I was once a student. Since then, I’ve helped 8 generations of aspiring 3d artists as well as assisted the school to be recognized in the top 10 best Animation Schools’ in the world and acquired over 60 local and international awards in various respected festivals.
https://theanimationschool.co.za/
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