Jeff Wamester

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What is your name and your current occupation?

My name is Jeff Wamester, and currently I am the Lead Character Designer for Ultimate Spiderman at Film Roman. I also do a lot of freelance storyboards for various studios.
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Before animation I was a freelancer doing projects for comics, gaming and movie studios. But before that I was a code monkey.  Mostly database design and data integration. Ya pretty dry stuff.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I would say the my favorite so far is the one I am now… Ultimate Spiderman.  Spiderman is a favorite of mine.  If my 12 year old self saw what I was doing now, he would probably faint from the excitement.
 How did you become interested in animation?
Always loved it… Looney Toons, Dungeons and Dragons, Thundercats and Silverhawks really solidified my Continue reading

Margaux Zinsner

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Margaux Zinsner, i am a Concept artist and a 2D animator. I have just finished my work as a freelance Concept artist for Cabin Fever Animation LTD, UK. This Studio is a new super studio oppened by Scott PLeydel-pearce few months ago! i was working on a feature film project, and now i’m looking for new exciting ones.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
In the summer 2007, i came with my sister to London, meeting up my two brothers who live there. We found a job as event waitress. but what was funny is that we did that in the Zoo of London (Camden town)!! You know, in this zoo there is some places, reception room, where people could make reception, cocktails, weddings, barmitsva…in the same time they could enjoy gorilla, bears, varan… So our work was really cool, at the morning we said hello to the penguins, midday we serve dishes in front of bears, and evening we passed through people with champagne flute in the gorilla kingdom…that was surprising!!

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I’ve just graduated in June 2011, so i’m a beginner in this industry. It’s a little bit difficult to know what you could be proud of. I need some more experiences. Nevertheless i’m really proud of my last job. Making concept art to develop a feature film is what i always wanted to do. So i’m more than glad, and hope i’ll participate to a lot of projects like this. But you know i’m just at the beginning, so sure, there will be a lot more!! 🙂

How did you become interested in animation?
Not really original! when i was a kid, i used to see a lot of animation films, above all disney’s movies. But what surprises my parents was that i did that really oftenly. I mean i saw it again and again and again. In my room watching these films, i was the most happy child. I supposed that’s how i began to be addictive to animation. But you know, i wasn’t Continue reading

Sarah Harkey

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Sarah Harkey– Freelance Artist and Assistant Animator at John K Enterprises.
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Not very much crazy… I worked as an usher at the Chicago Theater, a sales associate at Toys R Us, a Nanny for two awesome kids… all in all I tried to pick things that would still let me do art or be connected with art in some way… though some of those were stretching it!
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I’ve really enjoyed working with John Kricfalusi. The longest gig so far was working as an assistant animator on “The Simpson’s” couch gag that preceded “Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts”, there was lots of inbetweeing, clean up, ink and paint, and texture painting… there was also lots of eating lunch on TV trays while watching Terry Toons, haha
How did you become interested in animation?
I’ve always really loved animation. As a kid, if it wasn’t animated it was really hard for me to be interested (thats still sort of true today… yikes). Being a little girl in the early 90s I was of course obsessed with all things Disney princess. I also had lots of compilation VHS tapes of early Felix the Cat episodes, Popeye, Bugs Bunny, Rankin/Bass specials, strange fairy tale knock offs… if it was in a bargain bin at Wal-Mart in the 80s I probably ended up with it in the 90s. I always enjoyed drawing and art, but it wasn’t until senior year of high school that I Continue reading

Upcoming Webinar – Big Jump Founder Cory Morrison on Creative Entrepreneurship

Upcoming Webinar
Creative Entrepreneurship Webinar with Big Jump Productions Founder Cory Morrison

March 24th, 2016 at 2PM EDT

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Join Cory Morrison founder of Big Jump Productions as he tells us about his rise through the world of animation. This webinar will offer aspiring creative entrepreneurs insight on how to develop their own successful creative projects and business.

Big Jump is a premier independent 2D hybrid production studio that specializes in traditional and digital animation.

During this webinar we invite creative business owners to ask Cory questions and gain valuable advice about developing their own work and business.

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Cory Morrison
Webinar Details:

Webinar:
Creative Entrepreneurship Webinar with Big Jump Productions Founder Cory Morrison

Who:
Cory Morrison,
Director, Animator, Designer and Story Artist

Date: March 24th, 2016

Time: 2PM EDT

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Take Your Story Idea to the Finish Line

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Veteran story artist and animation director Spyros Tsiounis is going to show us exactly how he’s getting top notch animation quality that before only the major animation studios could afford, and he’s doing it with a virtual pipeline at a fraction of the cost.

Here is a quick summary of what’s in store this Saturday:

  • Who: Spyros Tsiounis with host Sergio Paez
  • What: Free Event- Taking Your Story Idea to the Finish Line

  • When: Saturday, March 19, 2016 at 11AM Pacific/2PM Eastern

  • Where: After you register, you’ll receive an email with a link to click to join the live event

  • Why: Learn story design and pipeline techniques you can use with your own stories.

If you’re interested but can’t attend the live event, still register. There will be a replay video made available for a short time, and we’ll email everyone who registers once it’s ready.

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