Experience

2006 Disney Burbank,CA

Art Director/ Development Art Director

• North of Neverland
•Chicken Little 2

2005 Marvel/ Lions Gate Santa Monica,CA

Color Concept Artist, Background Painter

•Ironman
•Dr.Strange

2005 Studio NM8 Burbank, CA
Art Director
•Zula Patrol -PBS
1996 - 2005 Mike Young Productions Woodland Hills, CA

Art Director

•JAKERS! The ADVENTURES of PIGGLEY WINKS (3-D) for PBS:
Background styling, supervision of lighting and color storyboards.
2005 Emmy Award- Special Achievement in Color Direction

•HE-MAN and the MASTERS of the UNIVERSE (2-D) for Cartoon Network: Art Director Background and character color styling along with key BG painting.

Key Background Artist

Created and developed background styles for
BRATZ (3-D), CLIFFORD the BIG RED DOG (2-D), PET ALIEN (3-D), POLLY POCKET(2-D), DIVE OLLIE DIVE (3-D), TODD WORLD(Flash) LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUSE (Feature Film) and CLIFFORD’S REALLY BIG MOVIE (Feature Film)

Character Builders Ohio

Key Background Colorist

· TARZAN II - Disney



Creative Capers Glendale, CA
Color Script Artist (freelance)

· BIONICLE -Lego

Background colorist

· BARBIE -Mattel

Slightly Off Beat Productions Auckland, NZ
Background Department Supervisor

· Trained traditional background artists on Photoshop.
· Taught artists how to run digital background department in efficient way.

Hong Ying Suzhou, China

Background Department Supervisor
•Was responsible in creating, organizing and managing the digital background department for the entire studio.
•Trained 60 traditional and non-traditional artists on PC and SGI system.
•Projects included MAMA DO YOU LOVE ME? -Sony Wonder, SABRINA the TEENAGE WITCH - DIC and ELLIOT the MOOSE - Nelvana.


Education
Otis School of Art and Design Los Angeles, CA
Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts.
Art Center Pasadena, CA
Basic training course on Maya.


Awards 2005 Emmy Award - Special Achievement in Color Direction
“Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks”