TAO NGUYEN
5527 San Gabriel Way
Orlando, FL 32837
contact: prosketch@hotmail.com
or taonguyen2000@hotmail.com
SKILLS:

Visual Development, Character Designs, Animation, Comic, Illustrations and Commission Art.
Computer skills: Photoshop, DreamWeaver (web design), After Effects, Premiere.

 

EXPERIENCE:

FREELANCE ARTIST, misc. artwork for various clients
Orlando, FL
-Disney Design Group
-Tom Bancroft's Funny Pages Production Studios
-Cecropia, Inc.


PROJECT FIREFLY
, Key Clean-up Artist
Orlando, FL
-Universal Studio's Curious George- the movie

PEANUT WORM PRODUCTIONS, Clean-up Artist
Glendale, CA
-SpongeBob Squarepants- the movie

WARNER BROS. FEATURE ANIMATION, Key Clean-up Artist
Sherman Oaks, CA
-Looney Tunes: Back In Action
-The Iron Giant
-The Quest For Camelot

DREAMWORKS FEATURE ANIMATION, Key Asst. Clean-up Artist
Glendale, CA
-Sinbad; Legend of the Seven Seas
-The Prince of Egypt, The Road To El Dorado

WALT DISNEY FEATURE ANIMATION, Breakdown Clean-up Artist
Burbank, CA
-The Lion King (Special Edition)
-Treasure Planet, Home On The Range, Aladdin (Imax re-release)
-Fantasia 2000: Firebird sequence, Atlantis: The Lost Empire

BAER ANIMATION COMPANY INC., Clean-up Supervisor
Studio City, CA
-Paramount Picture's: The Beautician And The Beast
-character Keys and responsible for all clean-up scenes

WARNER BROS. ANIMATION, Freelance Artist for Effects
Sherman Oaks, CA
-Show West '96, Animaniac's KRAFT commercial, VISA
-Marvin 3D Pre-Show, McDonald's Space Jam commercial
-Space Jam movie

7TH LEVEL, Key Assistant Animator
Glendale, CA
Traditional animation for award winning CD-Rom games
-Battle Beast, Arcade America, Howie's Great Word Adventures
-Morgan Creek's: Ace Ventura

CREATIVE CAPERS, Freelance Artist for CD-Rom games
Glendale, CA
-Disney's 101 Dalmations, Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games

 

Nov. 05- Present





July 05- to Oct. 05

 

Aug. 04 to Sept. 04




Mar. 03 to Sept. 03
Jan. 97 to Oct. 97




Dec. 02 to Mar. 03
Feb. 98 to Oct. 99



Oct. 99 to Oct. 02





Sept. 96 to Dec. 96




Feb. 94 to Sept. 96





Aug. 95 to Sept. 96
EDUCATION:

DISNEY'S AFTER HOURS TRAINING PROGRAM
-Intro To Maya Animation

FIGURE DRAWING INSTRUCTORS:
Glen Vilppu, Steve Huston, Carl Knass, Jason Yu

ASSOCIATES IN ART
-Beginning Animation by Larry Whitaker
-Inbetweening and Assistant Animation by Dan Bowman

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS
School of Film&Video: Traditional 2D Character Animation

 

April 02 to July 02


Studio training


Summer of '96



1990 to 1992
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