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EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Animation, 2006
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN

Study Abroad semester, 2004
Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, IRELAND

 

EXPERIENCE

Animator, 2006-present
Rubber Chicken Cards, Santa Monica, CA
Completing Flash animation for 30-second to 2-minute online cards.
Additionally, I also provide traditionally animated Sonnet pieces.
Responsibilities include storyboard, animation, and some Web design.

Animator, 2005
Nickelodeon Network, New York, NY
Animating a commercial bumper for the Nickelodeon Network. Responsibilities
include storyboard, character design, animatic, pencil animation, clean-up work,
coloring, and editing.

Illustrator, Mechademia 2005
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN
Providing four inked double-paged insert illustrations for the academic journal
Mechademia headed by Frenchy Lunning. Responsibilities include conceptual design,
pencil, and inks.

Comic Artist, 2005
AHA! Process, Highlands, TX
Providing 44 pages of pencil art for an educational comic script.
Responsibilities include layout and rough pencil art.

Animation Director, 2005
Minnesota Planetarium Society, Minneapolis, MN
Providing three minutes of animation for a short documentary film funded by a
grant from NASA. Responsibilities include presenting storyboard, character design,
animatic, key-frame animation, in-between animation, clean-up, coloring,
and backgrounds to the film’s director, Robert Bonadurer.

Animation Assistant, 2004
Humdinger! Productions, Crystal, MN
Assisting Animation Director Mike Owens and Production Manager Wendie Price
with production of traditionally animated short film “Lemmings.” Responsibilities include
clean-up work, in-betweening breakdown drawings, and breaking down key shots.

Illustrator, Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits, 2004-2005
DesignWorks, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Providing illustrations for a workshop poster and brochures; completed three inked,
colored illustrations in three weeks. Provided more illustrations the following year.

 

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Video, Film and Sound Equipment
Digital Video cameras, Digital Audio Tape systems, minidisk recorders,
16mm film equipment

Macintosh Computers and Programs
Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premier, InDesign, Maya, Flash,
Dreamweaver, ProTools, DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut

Related Skills
Figure drawing, Illustration, Comic art, Motion Picture Film,
35mm Black and White Photography, Graphic Design, HTML

 

EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS

2006 WINNER - Best Animated Short -
LA Femme Film Festval,
Beverly Hills, CA
2006 WINNER - Cartoon of the Month -
Channel Frederator,
Burbank, CA
2006 WINNER -

Solstice Film and Music Festival,
Stillwater, MN
2006 FINALIST - Best College-Produced Short
KIDS FIRST! Film and Video Festival, Santa Fe, NM
2006 Official Selection -

Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, Palm Springs, CA
2006 Official Selection -
Hawaii International Film Festival , Honolulu, HI
2006 Official Selection -
YoungCuts Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2006 Official Selection -
Austin Film Festival, Austin, TX
2004 Official Selection -

First Annual Animation Show, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
2004 Burren College of Art Spring Exhibition -
Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland

 

HONORS

2006 Van Derlip Traveling Scholarship -
Minneapolis College of Art and Design,
Minneapolis, MN, $2,500
2004 Tom Larson Animation Scholarship -

Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN, $1,000
2002-2006 Friends of MCAD Renewable Scholarship -
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN, $25,000
2002-2006 Dean’s List -
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN

 

© 2006 Sara Pocock