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Christina Chiusano

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Christina Chiusano, Compositing Supervisor on Penguins of Madagascar.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
My first Job out of college was a game tester at EA

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of? 
When I started working at Nickelodeon for the CG department there were less then 15 people working here. Seeing this department grow from one show to more then 5 in production has been really rewarding.
How did you become interested in animation? 
I have always been passionate about cartoons and movies. When I was little I was always Continue reading

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3D Animated Short “Runaway”

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Watch this charming CGI animated short film by the talented Susan Yung, Emily Buchanan and Esther Parobek @ Ringling College of Art and Design! “Runaway” is a charming story about a misunderstanding between a man named Stanley and his treasured 1950’s refrigerator, named Chillie. Set in present day, a sad event sends Chillie into a whirlwind of emotional turmoil, and as a result, he runs away. For more information about this film, please visit the links below:

Facebook – Follow the adventures of “Runaway” here : facebook.com/RunawayChillie

Personal Websites/blogs
Susan Yung – http://susanyungart.blogspot.com/
Esther Parobek – http://www.estherparobek.com
Emily Buchanan –http://www.emilyrbuchanan.com/

Wonderful thanks to:
Music composed by: Andy Brick: andybrick.com/
Sound Design by: Mauricio D’Orey : vimeo.com/user2395420
Karl Hadrika for lending is awesome voice!

FESTIVALS:
40th Annual Student Academy Awards – Finalist
Animation Block Party 2013 – Student Film
Enjoy! 🙂
Follow the adventures of “Runaway” here : facebook.com/RunawayChillie

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Joe Sanabria

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Joe Sanabria and I’m an Art Director/Concept Artist. My most recent work was on Fallout:New Vegas and the DLC’s (Downloadable Content) Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues and Lonesome Road.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation? 
I’ve had a number of jobs before getting into the games industry and most were boring rather than crazy- lab technician at a photo lab, delivery guy at a cabinet shop and back in high school, cashier at a newstand.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of? 
Two stand out for sure, Fallout: New Vegas and Skullmunkeys; there’s a huge following and great history to the Fallout franchise and what the team was able to achieve in the time we had was nothing short of amazing. In addition, Bethesda and the studio leads at Obsidian really trusted me and let me put my own spin on the look and feel of the game. The reception of the art by the press and folks was great and made all the hard work worth it.  On Skullmonkeys, I was able to do a number of different types of work, lighting design, level design and even some marketing art including the cover for the game. However, most folks will remember me as Joe Head Joe, a wicked level-boss where my head was animated , stop-motion by Ed Schofield. Every once in while a fan of the game will recognize my name, because it‘s a pretty rare name and they get so excited when they realize its me. Not too many folks can say they were a level boss.

How did you become interested in animation? 
At an early age I loved cartoons– Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, He-man, Thundercats and of course GI-Joe. As I got older the Disney and Bluth films really inspired me and got me interested in art. Unfortunately it never went farther than that until years later when I was out of college and I moved in with a couple of friends who where animation interns. They where working on Earthworm Jim under some great animators and late one evening I stopped by to say hi. Seeing that environment, Continue reading

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No-A

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Award winning graduation film NO-A completed at the Savannah College of Art and Design by a core team of 8 students.

The world is a desolate, unforgiving place in this action sci-fi with a surprising amount of heart. We follow NO-A (Noah), as he attempts to rescue Aixa, the young woman that created him. In his desperate attempt to save her, he must face an unknown enemy force and fight to keep them both alive.

(C) NO-A Productions

Website: noafilm.org/
Facebook: facebook.com/pages/NO-A/948787145132068?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
Twitter: twitter.com/NOA_Film

Credits
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Directed by
Liam Murphy

VFX Supervisor
Andrew Finley

FX Lead
Matt Benson

Lighting Leads
Michelle Gao
Kevin Herjono

Additional Lighting
Mark McKinsey
Dennys Herman
Aditi Vengurlekar

Lead Sound design
Kai Paquin

Render Pipeline TD
Will Cavanagh

Environment Modeling
Nathan Kreuzman

Rigging TD/Animation Pipeline
Liam Murphy
Kori Ackmar
Ovid Nostradov

Effects TDs
Matt Benson
Tyler Britton
Joshua Schwartz

Executive Producer
Xan Xai

Producer
Chloe Mortensen

Original Idea by
Andrew Finley
Matt Benson

Compositing Lead
Matt Karan

Music
Jacob Yoffee

Soundmixing
Matt Yocum

Sound Design
Kai Paquin
Tom C Schmidt

Animation
Liam Murphy
Emily Katske
Ben Sanders

Compositing Lead
Matt Karan

Compositing
Michelle Gao
Andrew Finley

Character Modeling
Raed Alamouni
Qween Parker
Andrew Finley

Modeling/Texturing
Anthony X. Smith
Casey J Arterburn
Nikit Shetti
Harsh Agrawal
Ty Roberson

Cloth Sim
Ben Lopatin

Concept Art
Adam Varga

Layout/Cinematography/ Editing
Liam Murphy

Shading Leads
Michelle Gao
Dayna Kelly
Andrew Finley

Opening Title
Clint Rea

Motion Graphics
Eddy Nieto

Copyright, NO-A Productions, 2014

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Brent Gordon

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Brent Gordon . I am currently a Texture Artist and freelance character designer at Nickelodeon.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I supported myself through college by driving a city transit bus in Orange County California.  It was relatively good paying job with flexible hoursto work around my class schedule at Cal State Long Beach. The hours were brutal! I had to get up at 4 am, start driving my route at 4:45 till mid morningthen attend classes in the afternoon, then come back and drive the evening route. I would then study until midnight and get up and do it all over again the next day.On top of that, I played and toured with a band during my college years.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
There have been many shows that I am very glad to have been a part of. I have designed characters for several Warner Bros. projects including Scooby Doo as well as many Walt Disney shows such as Kim Possible, American Dragon and Tinkerbell. One of the best looking shows that I have had the privilege of working on , is Continue reading

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Eduard Ersek

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Hi, my name is Eduard Ersek and I currently work as an animation supervisor.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I’m not sure if I can call them crazy, but I used to be a tourist guide. My job was to take a smaller group of tourist around the place where I live and show them nature and culture. So one day I took them on a trip to the mountains the next we visited towns, castles or museums. For a short period I also worked as a translator.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
There are very few projects I could say I’m proud to have been a part of. Usually when working under a contract time is very short and there is always a compromise between quality and speed. But Continue reading