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March 2025 - Present

Sphere Media - Harmony Animator

Saving Me
-Currently animating a high budget sci fi series called Saving Me.

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February 2024 - March 2025

Treehouse Republic Ireland - Lead Animator

Tuttle Twins
As a lead animator, aside from animation quota, it's my job to find solutions for animation and technical Toon Boom Harmony problems other animators are having.  I help to keep the team on track.

 

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April 2024 - Present

Loogaroo Animation - Part Time Freelance Animator

Feeli Tout
La Brigade

-Animating French speaking cartoons for television using Adobe Animate. (Flash)

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September 2023 - Present
MTM, College of Animation, Art and Design - College Professor 

-Animation Professor for the Classical Animation Course.

-Over the summer I'm currently teaching an online animation workshop to students living across Canada and the United States.

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January 2020 - February 2024

Jam Filled Entertainment Toronto - Full time Senior Animator

Loud House Season 8

Vida the Vet 

Clone High Reboot  

We Lost Our Human  

Final Space Season 3  

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December 2023 - April 2024

Taqqut Productions - Freelance Senior Animator

Tuktu

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June 2023 - July 2023

Sphere Media Productions - Freelance Senior Animator

Riley Rocket

 

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March 2022

Industrial Brothers - Freelance Senior Animator

Animated an advertisement for Reece Witherspoon

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February 2022 - May 2023

Brownbag Films / 9 Story - Freelance Senior Animator

Sago Mini Friends

Lu and the Bally Bunch

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January 2016 - November 2020
Portfolio Entertainment - Full time Senior Animator 

Hero Elementary

Bravest Warrior  

Hot Streets 

Moofaloo Pilot
Cat In the Hat Knows a Lot About That

Mini Cops Promo Video - Lead Animator / Designer

Animated, Designed, Supervised and instructed junior animators.

Doki 

 

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July 2019

The Animation Lounge - Instructor

-Instructed a 2 day Toon Boom Harmony workshop for a mix of amateur and professional students. 

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Mar 2018

Toon Boom Animation Inc.

Software Consultant

Advised Toon Boom Animation over a few months in written documents about the pros and cons of Adobe Animate Vs. Toon Boom Harmony. Gave suggestions on new tools and animation workflow ideas for Harmony, some of which are used by everyone in the industry today.

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Oct 2012 - 2017
MTM College - College Instructor

2014 - 2017- Instructor of the MTM Flash animation course for their animation program.

I play the 'Show Director' roll as I guide the class of students through the interesting process of designing, rigging and animating an entire animation scene from scratch, which includes a background, a rigged and animated character of themselves (with a theme) and their own voice acting with lipsyncs. 

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2013 - Instructed the 3rd Year's 2D computer Animation Film Project class.

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2012 - Instructed a 5 day intensive Flash Animation workshop for a class of students in the animation program who were looking to refine and master their Flash Animation skills.

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July 2016-August 2016
Yowsa Animation - Freelance Animator

Welcome to the Wayne - As a second job, I animated a small weekly quota. 

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September 2014 - December 2015
Guru Studio - Full time Senior Animator
Ever After High Movie - Dragon Games

Ever After High Movie - Epic Winter

Ever After High Movie - Way Too Wonderland

Ever After High - Youtube Shorts

- Animated a weekly quota in the popular Netflix  / Youtube series: Ever After High using Toonboom Harmony.

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September 2014 - November 2015
Smiley Guy Studios - Freelance Senior Animator
Chirp - Completed 20-30 seconds per week of freelance animation in my spare time on 'Chirp' which airs on CBC Kids.

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July 2013 - September 2014
Smiley Guy Studios - Full time Senior Animator, Prop Designer, Background Painter
Teleporting Fat Guy - Character animator for YouTube webisodes.
Warren United - Responsible for animating shots on a new high quality sitcom.
My Little Pony- Rigged, added designs and animated pony characters for a television toy commercial
Micheal and Trevors Round Up - Designed and painted backgrounds, designed and animated characters for this mobile game.
Get to the Game -  Designed a side scrolling level background 6000 pixels wide and 4 levels tall for a mobile game.
True Colours - Designed the layout and buttons for this mobile phone app.
Captain Canuck Webisode - Post production using After Effects for episode 1.

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March 2014 
Empty Cup Media - Freelance Classical Animator (Flash)
-Designed and classically animated a raven flap cycle that would be used in a live action documentary film.

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December 2014 
Echo Bridge Pictures - Freelance Classical Animator (Flash)
Axe Cop - Classically animated shots for Axe Cop.

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December 2014 
SwiftKICX Solutions / Avery Daniel Animation Project - Freelance Designer / Rigger/ Animator 
-Creating an animated advertisement for Staples Business Depot products.

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November 2013
Children's Book Animated Advertisement - Freelance Director / Designer / Animator / Sound editor / Post Production - 6 minute animated childrens book
Purpose Finds His Gift - Completed a short animated film based on a children's book by author Janet Campbell

-Directed
-Consulted
-Animated
-Composited
-Sound edited

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March 2013 - July 2013
Elliot Animation - Full time Character Animator and Revisionist
Grojband - Responsible for fixing design and animation problems with other animators shots and also animating new shots from scratch.

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May 2012 - Feb 2013
Vast Studios - Lead Game and Cinematics Animator
'Time Relics, Gears of Light'
'Dark Canvas, a Brush with Death'
'Strange Discoveries, Aurora Peak'
-Responsible for training new animators in Flash animation and working with a game engine.
-Responsible for designing storyboards and animatics to show how the cinematics throughout the game will play out
-Orgainizing with the art team what art assets need to be created for the game cinematics.
-Animating cinematics using Photoshop, Flash and After Effects.
-Animating game play animation using Flash and Pyro.
-Occasionally photoshopped additional artwork to improve my animation.
-Participated in boardroom meetings with other department leads.
-Overseeing that other animators are staying on track and that all animations are meeting deadlines.

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Nov 2012
SwiftKICX Solutions / Avery Daniel Animation Project - Freelance Animator
-Completed the job of swapping out artwork for festive artwork in a Staples Business Depot animated advertisement.
-Re-sized art assets using photoshop
-Added new animation
-Re-timed existing animation
-Alter the programming on buttons to link to a new website
-Swapped out images, text and programming link to a French version

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Oct 2012 - Nov 2012
SwiftKICX Solutions / Dream Tower at Emerald City Condo Animation Project - Freelance Animator and Manager
-Completed the job of rotating a supplied 3D condo on a loop and making interactive start and stop buttons for Elad Canada.
-Subcontracted and directed a 3D Maya modelling expert when some 3D Maya editing was needed for the Tower.

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Sept 2012 - October 2012
Kafiya Meets the Moon Project 
Kafiya Meets the Moon -Completed a short animated film from a few pages of author Janet Campbell's children's book
-Directed
-Consulted
-Storyboards and animatics
-Animation
-Composited
-Sound edited

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April 2012 - June 2012

Afrodelik Designs

Advertising Animated Commercial
-Completed an advertising commercial / short film for my client through some basic concept character designs that I was supplied with.
-Directing
-Storyboards and Animatics
-Character and background designs
-Animation
-Compositing 
-Sound editing

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Dec 2011 -  May 2012
Original Pictures - Director, Character-Prop-BG designer, Animator, Video Editor
Whats Your News - Successfully managed my own 2D animation department.  The final weekly product was a 25 second long

animated short for every 22 minute episode where my animated characters would pantomime the news stories that the live action children would tell.
-Director
-Character design
-Background design
-Prop design
-Video editing of live action, 3D animation and my 2D animations using Final Cut Pro

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August 2011 - December 2011
Smiley Guy Studios - Full time Animator
Skatoony season 2 

Animated a weekly quota. 

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February 2011- August 2011
Big Jump Productions - Full time Classical Animator (Flash)
Ugly Americans Season 2 

Animated a weekly quota. 

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November 2010 - November 2010
Studio NX - Freelance Animator
Fish Head Steve - Between myself, an animator in Toronto and an animator in the UK, we successfully completed a 45 second

trailer for a new animated series. 

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August 2010 - October 2010
Solis Animation Studios (Classical Animator)
Ugly Americans Season 1 - Classically animated new shots.  Fixed animation on existing shots.  Designed and painted new backgrounds and Characters.

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January 2009 - June 2010
Smiley Guy Studios - Full time Animator
The Dating Guy Season 1 - Flash Animator
The Dating Guy Season 2 - Flash Animator
Skatoony - Flash Animator
Tooned -  Flash Animator

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October 2009 - October 2009
Echo Bridge Pictures - Freelance Animator

Garfield and Friends -Animated shots for a Garfield webisodes.

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September 2006 - January 2009 

Fatkat Animation Studios, New Brunswick - Full time Animator / Supervisor
2008-2009 -  Three Delivery (Chop Suey Trio) - Classical animator
2007 - Animated 'Gushy Graham E-Cards'
2006-2007 - Super Normal - Animation Supervisor:  
Managed an animation team of 4-6 people, wrote and approved revisions.
Worked closely with the director to keep everything consistent.
Made sure that my team's deadlines were always met.

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2005 

Wishart Entertainment Group - Freelance Storyboarder
Sage-Shyne - Storyboarded a music video for a local rap artist. 

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EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS

2003 - 2006:  Max the Mutt Animation School, Toronto - Graduated  from the 3-year 'fine arts and animation' diploma program.

2002 - 2003: Sheridan College - Graduated the Art Fundamentals certificate program.  

1998 - 2002: Sinclair Secondary School - Graduated with honours.  Received an award in communications technology for a 3D Studio Max computer animated short film.

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