Experience

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  Apogee Colour Design

  • Colour Designer

    • Jun 2005 - Present

    • art direction • digital colour design for animated films • colour consulting • props, character and special effects colour design • background painting, digital or painted • creation of background colour keys • graphics creation. • team management

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  Rebecca Design Works

  • Art Director

    • 2005 - Present

    • Colour Design for Illustrated Books and Animation • Illustration • Graphics Production • Book Design

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  Yowza! Animation Corp

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Background Supervisor

    • Jul 2019 - Jul 2021
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    Guides and organizes a team of painters creating background paintings in photoshop for an animated series Green Eggs and Ham II, in 2D style following distance Art Direction of Bill Perkins. The first nine months were in-studio, and the rest, successfully remote! It was great building a supportiv...

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  Aura Cinematics

  • Calcutta, India

  • Art Director

    • May 2012 - May 2013
    • Calcutta, India

    Colour Art Direction for 90 minute animated feature, named Kindled.Development of colour, and digital colour key paintings in a lovely old fashioned painterly style in mixed CG and traditional. Sequence pre-production artwork development and design.• Colour Design.• Preproduction artwork developm...

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  Phoenix Animation

  • Digital Color Designer

    • 2002 - 2004

    • Colour Design for Characters, Props and Special Effectsfor two seasons (26 half hours) of: Eckhart• Series work, 13 part half hour television animations

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  Nelvana Animation Limited

  • Digital Colour Designer

    • 2001 - 2004

    • Colour Designer for Characters, Props and Special Effectson: Cyberchase, Braceface and Clone High• Series work, 13 part half hour television animations

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  Walt Disney Animation, Canada

  • Colour Design, Art Direction

    • Apr 1997 - Feb 2001

    COLOUR DESIGN and ART DIRECTION on Features, Shorts, Direct to Video including: Return to Never Land (2002) Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997) Pooh Valentine (2001) Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)• Digital Color Designer• Art Direction• Designer Special Sequences •...

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  Nelvana

  • Toronto

  • Digital Colour Designer/ & Paint Dept. Head

    • 1986 - Mar 1997
    • Toronto

    • Colour Designer for Characters, Props and Special Effects• Special Effects Renderer• Paint Department Manager • Digital Art Director• Testing of and Transfer to Aposite Digital Systems• Workflow Co-ordinator• Series work, 13 part half hour television animations• Beta Testing Computer Paint Syst...

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  Bear Spots (Comercial Department of Nelvana)

  • Special Effects and Fully Animated Moving Image Background Renderer

    • 1988 - 1991

    • Special Rendering and Specialty Paint Efx • Animated Flying Background Rendering and Colour Designfor many comercials including:• CBC Radio x2 • Cow Brand Baking Soda, • The Gaurdian Newspaper• WH Smith Books• Monsanto • RemaxIncluding: worked as special rendering assistant to Animated Backgrou...

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  Colorization

  • Colour Production Artist, Quality Control Overseer

    • 1983 - 1985

    Colour Application from Black and White to Colour on filmsfor film series including: Laurel and Hardyand Quality Control Overseer

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  TVC CARTOONS

  • London, UK

  • Senior Design Artist, Art Direction, Moving Image Colour Specialist, Crew Man...

    • 1981 - 1982
    • London, UK

    • Background Keys• Background SupervisorWorking closely with lead sequence animator Stephen Weston and original book illustrator Raymond Briggs, Rebecca created the design and colour rendering for the award winning animated background sequence of The Snowman. Rebecca was responsible for design an...

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  Atkinsons' Film Arts

  • Ottawa

  • Paint Specialist, Animated Background Colour Renderer

    • 1979 - 1981
    • Ottawa

    • Painter Production Artist• Colour Designer Special Sequences • Animated Background Colour Rendering• Background Keysfilms/series included: -Icabod Crane-Curious George, -The Raccoons-Tukiki and His Search for a Merry Christmas • Special Sequence Colour Renderer for Animators Stephen Weston and ...

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  Cinera Animation Ltd.

  • Production Artist, Designer Paint Effects, Colour Rendering

    • 1978 - 1979

    • Paint Application and Design for Animated Television Comercials

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  Rainbow Animation

  • Paint Specialist, Colour Efx Renderer

    • 1977 - 1979

    • Production Artist• Designer Paint Effects• Colour and Paintfilms/series includeThe Undersea Adventures of Captain NemoToothbrush

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  Ralwood Media Inc

  • Vancouver, BC/ and Rostrum Camera Banff, Alberta

  • Studio Manager, Production Artist, Head Airbrush, Assit.Camera - Crown of Fire

    • 1975 - 1977
    • Vancouver, BC/ and Rostrum Camera Banff, Alberta

    On: CROWN OF FIREanimated film with the backlit look of moving stained glass windows• Managed eight studio artists and Airbrush Department• Workflow organizer• Airbrushing Design• Lead Assistant to Rostrum Camera person• Graphics Production INK• Key Backgrounds

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  Royal Ontario Museum

  • Chinese Department

  • Design and Production Artist

    • 1973 - 1975
    • Chinese Department

    Display and illustration, layout for bilingual (Chinese/English) books on kiln sites of Ming Dynasty, exhibition displays, design of rendered display.