CV

Andy Fossey

Character Animator/Illustrator                        www.andyfossey.com

andy.fossey@gmail.com

Employment

8th April 2013 – Present- Character Animator at A Productions.

3D Character Animation for a pre­school TV series for Cbeebies called ‘The Numtums.’. Creating on average of 250 frames of finished character animation per day. ­ 3DS Max

January ­ April 2013-
Location Design/ Layout Artist at Spider­Eye.

Designing 2D sets and hand drawing 2D layouts for various sequences on ‘The Moshi Monsters Movie: The Great Moshling Egg.’ - Hand Drawn/Photoshop

13th – 24th August 2012-
Freelance Character Animator at Spider-Eye.

Character Animation on a 10 minute pilot for TV – ‘Newton and the Busy Boats’ ­ Maya

2nd – 6th July 2012- Freelance 3D Character Animator at Spider­Eye.


Character Animation on a live action background on a 10 minute Pilot for TV Show – ‘Castaway Cove’ ­ Maya.

April 2012 – June 2012- Freelance Character Design / Concept art/ Location Design at Spider­Eye Ltd.


Designing 5 main Characters and 5 pieces of location Concept Art for External Client. ­ Photoshop.

Character Design and Location/Environment Design and Plans for pilot “Newton and the Busy Boats”

­ Photoshop.

October 2010 – March 2012- 3D Character Animator at Spider­Eye Studios.

Working as a 3D Character Animator on the 2nd series of Jungle Junction for Disney Junior. Producing about a minute of finished animation every week. Also Scene Planning / Pre­vis Animation. ­ XSI

Character Animation for Pilot TV Series , “Sidney the Nightmare Hunter” .­ Maya


Character, Prop and Environment Design for Pilot TV Series, “Bouncy Castle” ­ Hand Drawn /Photoshop

Education

University College Falmouth 2007 - 2010 BA(Hons) Digital Animation with a 2:1

Alton College 2004 – 2007
BTEC National Diploma in Art & Design specializing in Illustration 3 AS levels A-D, including Art & Design

Skills Set

Ø      3D animation – An excellent knowledge of Autodesk Maya, 3DS Max and Soft Image XSI.

Ø      3D layout and scene planning
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Ø      2D layout & animation, Hand Drawn and Adobe Flash
Character Design.

Ø      Location Design and Concept Art.

Ø      Adobe Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects.

Ø      Life Drawing

Interests

I am truly passionate about animation and design. I attend regular life drawing sessions and also draw people whilst out and about making small studies of interesting characters and movements. I love to read, watch movies and play video games. I enjoy the telling of a good story in any medium.

                     

        
References on request