About
Personal Statement/ Career Objective
At a very young age I fell in love with animation and knew that I wanted to be an animator when I grew up. I knew I wanted to achieve a future in crafting well-designed characters brought to life with entertaining animation. I have recently completed a BA (Hons) Animation with a 1st, which has provided me with skills ground knowledge of the animation pipeline, a good understanding of the principles of animation and a broad use of software and team-working skills. On my BS Mathematics course, I learnt organisational skills, independent working skills and time-management. I assure any employer that I will bring passion, hard work and a willingness to learn to any job I undertake.
Education
Year 2009: Ba (Animation) with 1st Class Honours at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
Year 2008: Fda (Computer Visualisation and Animation) at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
Year 2006: Bsci (Mathematics) with 2nd (Higher) Honours from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Other Qualifications
Comic strip published on www.dummcomics.com.
Finalist in the Walt Disney Company Consumer Product Graduate Scheme 2008
Hand-drawn animation course at Central Saint Martins
Maya course at Central Saint Martins
Stop-motion course at Central Saint Martins
Life drawing course at Central Saint Martins
Course in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint at City of London School for Boys.
Software Programs
AutoDesk Maya
AutoDesk Sketchbook Express
Adobe Flash
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Premiere
Adobe After-effects
Work Experience
Interior Illustrations and Cover for The Koncept Factory Date: October 2011 till present
Provided interior illustrations and cover for the children’s book “The Booger Monster”.
Marketing and Publishing Intern for Macmillan Children’s Books Date: 30th January 2012 to 3rd February 2012
Designing newsletters, researching marketing opportunites, mailing out proof copies and filing.
Wallace and Gromit Test Comic Strip for The Sun Newspaper Date: December 2011
Did a test strip for the Wallace and Gromit comic in the Sun Newspaper.
Internships at Apps Play Ltd Date: 4th July 2011 to 8th July 2011
Did photshop and After-effects compositing for CashPlay TV.
Concept Character Designs for The Koncept Factory Date: June to July 2011
Provided character concepts
Illustrations for Corporate House Date: June 2011
Provided illustrations for book about renting out properties.
Work Experience at Brown Bag Films Date: 2nd May to 6th May 2011
Conformed storyboards and typed scripts for overseas production and helped in editing sessions for show “Doc Mc Stuffins” for Disney Junior, provided character designs for programme in development for Spike TV and generally helped around the studio.
Work Experience at Espresso Animation Date: Odd days in March and April 2011
General helping around the Espresso Office.
Character Designer for Crump Animation Date: February 2011 to March 2011 Unpaid.
Provided character designs for one pilot and finalised model sheets for another.
Animator for King Bee Studios Date: February 2011 to March 2011
Unpaid Flash animator for pilot.
2D Animator for Reverge Labs Date: January 2011 to February 2011
Work on an animation test for the 2D fighting game Skull Girls.
Animator for Droomwevers Euro ABCD Date: September 2010 to March 2011.
Un-paid work where I had to write, design, storyboard, animate, produce and direct a 1 1⁄2 minute animation to a song.
Runner at ‘Passion Pictures’ Date: 23rd June 2010
Freelance character designer for ‘Softmart’ Dates: October 2009
Head of Ebay Sales, Researcher and Archivist at ‘Art You Grew Up With’. Dates: August 2005 and August 2006
Additional Skills and Experience
At Ravensbourne, as the director of a group of nine people on a student film I gained the ability to adhere to a production schedules, manage a group of creative people, calculate invoices and costs of projects and learnt to deal with outside voice actors and other clients. I also gained a good understanding of animation principles and learnt to draw to consistently well at a quick pace. Finally I gained a good understanding of the creative side of the industry.
Interests
Drawing, Animation from Hollywood’s Golden Age, Silent Comedy, Sitcoms, Superhero Comics, Science Programmes, Platform and Fighting Games, Puppetry and Palaeontology.
References
References are available on request.
Copyright 2010 Daryl-Rhys Taylor