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RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

BACKGROUND PAINTER

TITMOUSE, VANCOUVER, BC - CANADA

FEBRUARY 2025 - MAY 2025

  • Background Painter on unannounced TV animated series

SENIOR BG LAYOUT

GIANT ANT, VANCOUVER, BC - CANADA

OCTOBER 2024 - APRIL 2025

  • Collaborated as a Senior Background Layout Artist on the feature film "Tangles", designing and refining multiple backgrounds for seamless integration.

  • Assisted Layout Supervisor in analyzing sequences, ensuring continuity across shots, and identifying reusable backgrounds and storyboard inconsistencies.

  • Communicated proactively with leads, production, and cross-functional teams to ensure smooth asset handoffs and resolve technical issues.

  • Organized and optimized files for efficient, production-friendly workflows.

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BACKGROUND PAINTER

TITMOUSE, VANCOUVER, BC - CANADA

NOVEMBER 2023 - OCTOBER 2024

  • Painted multiple backgrounds for Star Trek: Lower Decks and Digman, ensuring alignment with design department treatments.

  • Referenced key backgrounds to maintain visual consistency and accuracy across shots.

  • Streamlined production by reutilizing assets, and speeding up the painting process.

  • Organized and optimized files for the compositing team, ensuring efficient handoff and workflow.

MATTE PAINTER

STELLAR CREATIVE LAB, VANCOUVER, BC - CANADA

NOVEMBER 2022 - NOVEMBER 2023

  • Worked as a Matte Painter on Seth Rogen’s “Sausage Party: Foodtopia”.

  • Painted several shot-based matte paintings, cycloramas, and skydomes and did several projections on 3D geometry.

  • Exploited 3D tools to speed up the matte painting process by creating mock-ups, 3D models, sets, and painting UV maps.

  • Acquired experience with Nuke to render proxy sets for review and testing.

  • Contributed to the team with several time-saving, task-eliminating creative solutions and documented them so colleagues could replicate them

COMPOSITOR

TITMOUSE, VANCOUVER, BC - CANADA

MARCH 2022 - NOVEMBER 2022

  • Used expertise in After Effects to composite hundreds of shots for AMC's first animated series "Pantheon".

  • Further developed attention to detail.

  • Excelled in prioritization and time management, creating automated systems to track and organize hundreds of assigned shots.

  • Used experience in other disciplines to complete tasks and facilitate the work of peers from other departments.

  • Quickly learned how to use third-party plugins.

  • Regularly collaborated with teammates and other departments to ensure high-quality, as well as consistency in treatment.

DESIGNER

MAINFRAME STUDIOS, VANCOUVER, BC - CANADA

MAY 2021 - MARCH 2022

  • Worked primarily as a Location Colour Designer

  • Painted several key backgrounds for the 2D animated series "The Guava Juice Show" with quick turnaround times.

  • Assisted character and props team with colour designs.

  • Consistently met or surpassed the expectations of the client and executive producers.

OUTSOURCE ARTIST

DOOMWOOD DIGITAL MEDIA, VANCOUVER, BC - CANADA

JANUARY 2021 - MAY 2021

  • Created illustrations for clients such as Navigator Games and Riot Forge

  • Quickly iterated illustration sketches for the game "Hextech Mayhem"

  • Created model sheets and character art for "Avatar: Generations"

CONCEPT ARTIST

SPSEAL GAME STUDIO, RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ - BRAZIL

SEPTEMBER 2019 - DECEMBER 2019

  • Designed all environments for SPSeal's first 3D mobile game.

  • Provided and received feedback from peers across all departments.

  • Proactively improved file organization and created documents to ensure art style consistency and overall production efficiency.

  • Exploited software features to create highly efficient workflows.

RELEVANT EDUCATION

LANGARA COLLEGE

2D ANIMATION & DIGITAL ART - POST-SECONDARY DIPLOMA

VANCOUVER, BC - CANADA

SEPTEMBER 2020 - DECEMBER 2021

VANCOUVER FILM SCHOOL

ANIMATION CONCEPT ART - POST-SECONDARY DIPLOMA

VANCOUVER, BC - CANADA

AUGUST 2018 - AUGUST 2019

REDZERO

GAME ART 1.0 - CERTIFICATE

RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ - BRAZIL

JUNE 2015 - JUNE 2016

SEVEN COMPUTACAO GRAFICA

COMPUTER GRAPHICS - CERTIFICATE

RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ - BRAZIL

APRIL 2012 - JUNE 2015

SKILLS

  • Strong foundation in art fundamentals and colour theory

  • Expertise in Matte Painting, Environments, Characters, Backgrounds, and Props Design

  • Advanced skills in Photoshop and After Effects.

  • Intermediate skills in Adobe Animate, Toon Boom Harmony, and Blender

  • Basic skills in Maya, Nuke and ZBrush

  • Excellent time management and organizational skills

  • Proactive problem-solving and efficient in fast-paced environments

  • Quick turnaround on tasks without compromising quality

  • Strong collaborator and effective communicator

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