Experience

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  FurBabies on GoComics

  • Greater Toronto Area, Canada

  • Artist and Writer

    • Jun 2023 - Present
    • Greater Toronto Area, Canada
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  Little Red Hen Editions

  • Author and Illustrator

    • Sep 2022 - Present

    HOW I FINALLY GOT TO LIVE A CAT'S LIFE, my first graphic novel, was published on October 1, 2022. It's a chronicle of the ultimate staycation...with cats.

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  Sheridan College

  • Oakville, Ontario, Canada

  • Professor

    • Aug 2008 - Sep 2022
    • Oakville, Ontario, Canada

    I taughtSecond year storyboard and was a mentor for fourth year thesis projects.Summer workshops:1. Maquette and character design2. Animated Performance

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  The Animation Workshop

  • Viborg, Denmark

  • Guest Lecturer

    • Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
    • Viborg, Denmark

    One-week long character design course for first year students.

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  Dead Dog Cafe Productions and Sheridan College

  • Ontario, Canada

  • Director, Designer and Animator A SHORT HISTORY OF INDIANS in CANADA

    • Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
    • Ontario, Canada

    Produced, directed and animated a five minute short film based on Thomas King's short story of the same name. The film features Thomas King as the voice of Doorman/Coyote, the art and animation of eight co-op Sheridan students, and music by my father Melvyn Beiman (and a round dance by Thomas...

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  Focal Press

  • PREPARE TO BOARD

    • 2005 - 2017

    Author of standard text on storyboarding and character design. First edition: 2007; a second edition was published on October 10, 2012. The third and final edition was published by CRC Press in 2017.

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  Bloomsbury Academic

  • ANIMATED PERFORMANCE

    • 2014 - 2015

    Original edition published 2010. A second edition (extensively revised and expanded) was published in 2015 by Bloomsbury Press.

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  National Yunlin University of Science and Techn...

  • Guest Lecturer and Mentor for Senior Animation Projects

    • Jun 2010 - Jul 2010

    Guest lecturer in Animation Acting and judge, with other professors, of winners for summer scholarship course; mentored 12 senior project stories.

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  Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Visiting Assistant Professor

    • 2004 - 2008

    taught: character animation 1 and 2, gesture drawing, layout, storyboard, character design, and one-quarter film projects on graduate and undergraduate levelMentored senior project films in various media (drawn and CGI)

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  Walt Disney Toon Studios

  • Animator

    • 2003 - 2004

    Animator on several made for video shows.

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  Hahn Film,Berlin

  • Directing Animator, Storyboards

    • 2003 - 2003

    Storyboards, animation. The project was redesigned as a CGI feature and production ceased at this studio.

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  Savannah College of Art and Design

  • Professor of Animation

    • 2000 - 2002

    Taught animation, character design, storyboard. Created layout and gesture drawing classes.

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  TFC Trickompany

  • Storyboard Artist

    • 2001 - 2001

    Boards for WIR KOTZEN SPATER, or Werner IV.

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  Walt Disney Feature Animation

  • Supervising Animator

    • 1993 - 2000

    Designed and animated characters for HERCULES, TREASURE PLANET; lead animator on A GOOFY MOVIE; storyboards, character design and development for numerous projects at Features and Television

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  Walt Disney Animation Studios-France

  • supervising animator

    • 1993 - 1994

    Animated ROXANNE, BIGFOOT, and Goofy; supervised unit of five animators (sequences with Max, Goofy, and Roxanne)

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  Warner Bros. Classic Animation

  • Director

    • 1991 - 1992

    Directed and storyboarded LUNAR TUNES; animated on BLOOPER BUNNY short film.

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  Amblimation UK

  • supervising animator

    • 1988 - 1990

    Supervising animator, MISS KITTY, American Tail II, Feivel goes West.

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  Caged Beagle Productions

  • co-owner

    • 1986 - 1988

    Cofounder, with business partner Dean Yeagle. Subcontracted work for Warner Brothers, produced commercials. Company is still around under Dean's management.

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  Rick Reinert productions

  • Animator

    • 1982 - 1985

    Freelance animator on WINNIE THE POOH AND A DAY FOR EEYORE, THE BOLLO CAPER, and commercials with CAPTAIN O.J. READMORE. Animated bumpers for THE DISNEY CHANNEL featuring Donald and Mickey, and educational films for Epcot Florida.

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  Zander's Animation Parlour

  • animator, character designer

    • 1979 - 1982

    I was hired by the late Jack Zander to work in his famous commercial cartoon studio before I graduated from Cal Arts. I worked as an animator, board artist, and character designer on short commercials and animated on the television special GNOMES in 1980.

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  Bakshi Productions

  • Assistant Animator

    • 1978 - 1978

    Cleanup, assist, inbetween on some scenes for animator Crystal Russell; key animator on 'Wargs' sequence (Wargs)