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Jonah Friedman

3D Freelance Artist

home/cell: 347.873.3992

jonahf@gmail.com

 

 

Technical and Artistic Skills

 

Production experience:

Animation: Character animation, technical animation

Modeling: Characters, sets, props and vehicles

Rigging: Characters, prop, vehicle, technical

Visual effects: Cloth simulation, water effects, particles

Lighting and Rendering

Software:

Autodesk Maya

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe After Effects

Pixelogic ZBrush

Softimage XSI

Windows and Macintosh Operating Systems

 

Production Experience

 

Psyop / Mass Market (Freelance)

New York, NY

October 2007 - June 2008

 

Infiniti: Television commercial. Visual effects (cloth effects, snow)

Monster.com: Television commercial. Environment modeling, animation, lighting, rendering

Century 21: Television commercial. Visual effects (house transformations)

Haagen-Dazs: Television commercial. Rigging, creature animation

ACI: Television commercial. Environments (modeling, texturing, paintFX, lighting, rendering), visual effects (cloth simulation)

Subaru: Television commercial. Visual effects (clouds)

 

Stardust NY (Freelance)

New York, NY

August 2007 - October 2007

 

Trident Splash: Television commercial. Environments, modeling, texturing, character rigging, visual effects (water), rendering

Trident Fresh: Television commercial. Underwater environments, visual effects, creature animation, rendering

 

Cardiovascular Research Foundation (Freelance)

New York, NY

May 2007 - July 2007

 

Various Small Projects: 3D Generalist

 

Starz Animation (Formerly IDT Entertainment Toronto and DKP Effects)

Toronto, ON

January 2004  - March 2007

 

Sheepish: Feature film,  canceled. Character modeling, set modeling, technical rigging

Chopsocky Chooks: TV show for Aardman, release date TBD. Character, set and prop modeling, character rigging, technical rigging, effects animation, character animation

Everyone's Hero: Feature film,  Sept. 2006. Set and prop modeling, rigging

The Happy Elf: NBC Christmas Special,  Dec. 2005. Set and prop modeling, character animation

2004 MTV Movie Awards: Short category introduction animations, June 2004. Character animation for an entire  segment

Surly Squirrel: Short film, directed by Peter Lepeniotis. Character animation

VeggieTales: Children's Straight-to-DVD movies:

"Sumo of the Opera", August 2004 Character animation

"Duke and the Great Pie War", March 2005 Character animation, set and prop modeling

 "Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler", March, 2006 Character, set and prop modeling

"Larryboy and the Bad Apple", July 2006 Character, set, and prop modeling, character rigging,  technical rigging

Game Over: UPN network animated comedy, March 2004. Character Animation.

 

Education

 

Vancouver Film School

3d Animation Diploma

Intensive one-year program

Awarded two-month extension scholarship

Graduated December 2003

 

William Nottingham High School

High School Diploma

Graduated June 2001