Brigham Young University / Provo, UT / 2008 - 2016
BFA in Visual Arts: Animation

2D Character Animator / Too Loud, Nico Colaleo / April 2017 - June 2017
• Animated stylized characters for TV producton in Toon Boom

3D Character Animator / Blue Delorean / November 2014
• Animated background humanoid monsters for live-action TV show “Sleepy Hollow”

3D Character Animator / Brave Frontier "One on One", Brewster Parsons / October 2014 - November 2014
• Animated hero characters for video game advertisement for “Brave Frontier”
• Worked with rigger in order to animate as the rigs were being built due to time constraints

3D Character Animator / Ram's Horn, BYU / March 2014 - November 2014
• Animated mountain-climber and ram characters in Maya
• Blocked out pre-vis shots and cameras
• Edited sequences in Premiere to improve timing and consistency between shots

3D Character Animator / OWNED, BYU / January 2013 - January 2014
• Animated character shots in Maya
• Collaborated with other animators to improve my shots and provide feedback on others
• Pitched ideas to improve my shots to the director and producer
• Framed and animated shot cameras in Houdini

2D Character Animator / Flower Girl, self / November 2012 - April 2013
• Animated short film
• Voiced character

2D Animator / Various, Kelly Loosli / June 2012 - October 2012
• Cleaned up and inbetweened shots in Toon Boom and Adobe Flash

2D Cleanup Animator / Dreamgiver, Tyler Carter / August 2010 - December 2010
• Cleaned up, inbetweened, and colored child and monster characters for various shots
• Cleaned up, inbetweened, and colored vine effects for various shots
• Colored frame-by-frame shots to a gradient-based style, in Flash

2D Flash Game Artist / Shattered Colony: The Survivors, Jonathon Duerig / May 2008 - April 2009
• Animated NPC actions and walk cycles
• Animated gun fire and explosion effects
• Designed all graphical assets, including characters, environment tiles, and GUI
• Created backdrop art for menus and win/lose screens

3D Production: Maya, Mari, Renderman, Mari, Mudbox

2D Production: Flash, Toon Boom, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects

Scripting: Python, MEL, C++, Actionscript, PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL, XML

Fabrication: 3d printing, soldering, sewing, drafting