Character Artist & Animator

Shaun Kessler

Philadelphia, PA

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I'm an artist and animator with 10 professional years experience as a vector artist and animator. I am experienced with character and technical animation as well as modeling and sculpting. My experience is in educational virtual worlds, however I am looking to expand.

I'm currently looking for a position where I can best put my skills to use as well as greatly expand them.
Education
- Media Arts & Animation
  
  Art Institute of Philadelphia
  
  2005
Experience
- Contract Artist
  
  3D Character Animation and Sculpting
  
  Jan 2010 - Present (14 years 10 months)
  
  Provided Vector Illustration & Character Animation to select clients
  Switched from 2D to 3D Character Animation and Sculpting
- Contract Artist
  
  W!ldbrain Animation
  
  West Hollywood, CA
  
  Oct 2009 - Nov 2009 (1 month)
  
  Cleaned up existing designs
  Took characters from bitmap designs and into vector to be animated.
  Provided various iterations of each design for the client
  
  Projects: Polly Pocket
- Artist & Animator
  
  Ingeeni Studios
  
  Cambridge, MA
  
  Jan 2008 - Jan 2009 (1 year)
  
  Animated characters and all assets.
  Illustrated and designed characters, items, and UI for virtual worlds.
  Implemented assets into game via XML.
  
  Projects: Happy Hippos, Creature Park, Smurfs
- Artist
  
  Animax Entertainment
  
  Culver City, CA
  
  Jan 2007 - Dec 2007 (11 months)
  
  Designed and shaded key asset props in flash for online game.
  Stuck to a rigid deadline schedule with the studio while working remotely.
  Built Character Libraries for television series currently in production.
  Took characters from design to finished build: fully colored, inked, setup, and ready to be animated.
  Projects: BUFU, TY Girlz
- Intern
  
  Curious Pictures
  
  New York, NY
  
  Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 (4 months)
  
  Assisted Storyboarding & Design Departments
  Completed duties such as copying, Storyboard ID-ing, Paste-ups, and assembling Episode Design Packets.
  Assembled paste-up's and made sure that all pages were labeled properly and also that all needed elements were in each packet.
  Made sure that storyboards had the proper ID's for all elements.
  Attended both weekly storyboarding and design meetings as well as script meetings.
  
  Project: Codename: Kids Next Door
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Shaun Kessler

Assistant Professor - Educator, Industrial Design, Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design

Assistant Professor, Graphic Design