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AARON HALIFAX |
| OBJECTIVE: |
To further develop as a character animator.
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| EDUCATION: |
| 2002-2003 |
studying MFA: Digital
Art |
Bowling
Green State University, Ohio |
| Digital Art with
focus on 3D character animation |
• taught advanced
character animation classes
Advanced
Computer Animation Fall, 2002
Advanced
Computer Animation Spring, 2003
• taught 3D modeling class
Intermediate 3D Modeling Fall, 2003
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| 1998-2002 |
BFA: Digital
Art |
Bowling
Green State University, Ohio |
| Digital Art |
• National Honors
Society
• Dean's List
• Overall GPA: 3.46; School of Art GPA: 3.87
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| RELEVANT EXPERIENCE: |
| 2003-CURRENT |
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Blue
Sky Studios, New York |
Animator : "Horton Hears a Who" 2008
• rig testing, experimental animation, character animation
Animator : Developmental project 2006
• rig testing, previs animation, character animation
Animator : "No Time For Nuts" 2006
• part of small team selected to work on new Scrat short
Junior Animator : "Ice Age: The Meltdown" 2006
• rig testing, experimental animation, character animation, FX animation
•wrote various MEL scripts to aid production
Animation Technical Assistant : Developmental project 2005
• fix animation, animation liaison during production, MEL scripting
Animation Technical Assistant : "Robots" 2005
• fix animator, MEL scripting, background character animation
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| 2002-2003 |
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Icepond,
New York |
Freelance Animator :
"GI Joe: Spy Troops" 2003
• character animator, partial character rigging, UV texture mapping
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| 2002 |
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Proforma,
Ohio |
Freelance Animator :
• character concept and design, supervised small team of animators, character animator
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PUBLICATIONS, EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS: |
2004 Animation Principles Lecture/Workshop
2005 Production Workflow Lecture
2005 Implementing Autonomous Crowds in CG
Feature Film
2001 BGSU Undergraduate Exhibition
2000 BGSU President's Day Exhibition
2000 Art Talent Scholarship
2001 Gilbert's Living with Art, by Mark Getlein
Art Fundamentals, by Otto Ocvirk
Licking County Fire Department Mural |
Jillian White Fine Arts
Scholarship 1998
Medici Circle Purchase Award 2000
BGSU Computer Art Demo Reel 1998-2002
N-SPACE Siggraph 2001 Demo Reel
Tech-TV, Eye Drops 2002
History of Western Art, by Laurie Schnieder
Art Across Time, by Laurie Adams
Launching the Imagination, by Mary Stewart |
