KELLY C. DAY

website: www.kellycg.com
printable PDF: KellyCDayResume.pdf

Creative Art Director - 3D Modeling - Visual Effects - Animation - Web Development

Professional with comprehensive expertise in Digital Compositing and 3D Effects Animation

• Art Director, designer, animator "Every Body Has a Brain" educational children's game on PC, Mac and iPad
• Developed, designed, animated "Neruomatrix" educational first person game for www.morphonix.com
• Major Network and Film animation credits
• Experienced in working with and supervising animation teams in U.S. and Japan
• Served on Walt Disney Technology Committee to develop new project concepts and techniques

Technical Orientation:

Maya, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Premiere, Shake, Combustion, Commotion, Matchmover, SoftImage, SketchUp, FileMaker, Unix Scripting, USAnimation, Toonz, Flash, ActionScript, svn, Wordpress, html/css, jQuery, Mac, Windows

Experience:

Morphonix LLC, Sausalito2004 - 2012
Art Director, Level Designer, Web Developer, Animator

GORK ENTERPRISES, Burbank 2003 - 2004
Developed Graphics and Animation for DVD titles

GRAHAM MORRIS ANIMATION, Van Nuys, CA 2003 - 2004
CG Animator, DreamWorks Pictures' "Anchorman"

SIX FOOT TWO PRODUCTIONS, San Francisco 2002 - 2004
Technical Director, games, TV commercials

WALT DISNEY TELEVISION ANIMATION SPECIAL PROJECTS2003 - 2004
Technical Director

TODD McFARLANE'S MONSTERS SERIES2003 - 2003
3D Background Design, Graham Morris Animation, Van Nuys

THE ACADEMY OF ART COLLEGE, San Francisco, CA1999 - 2003
Director of Animation. Supervised 2D and 3D animation schools, designing curriculum and guiding over 200 teachers. Also taught classes that included applications in 2D/3D animation, compositing and visual special effects.

WALT DISNEY TELEVISION ANIMATION, Burbank, CA1990 - 1999
Technical Director / Producer / Layout Designer TD pre-production and post-production, compositing and VFX for digital ink and paint. Implemented 3D/2D SGI, Mac and PC computer arts department Designed 3D backgrounds, layouts and animations for productions such as"Aladdin", "Gargoyles", "Goof Troop" and "The Little Mermaid."

Education:

Director of Animation - Academy of Arts College, San Francisco, CA

BA, Industrial Design/Animation/Illustration, California State University at Northridge
Graduated With Honors

Professional Affiliations: ACM SIGGRAPH