VALENCIA SPATES

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AREA OF EXPERTISE 

                         

Storyboard/Revisionist for scripted and board-driven shows. Comedy and action with dynamic sequences and composition. Can adapt to show style and bring out a character’s personality with poses, comedy and action. Able to propose creative ideas and solutions that bring out the best in each scene.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, Traditional Animation – COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois (2013)
 

Technical Proficiency

Platforms: Windows, MAC OS 

Applications: Storyboard Pro, Shot Gun Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator), Google Docs MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Tools Cintiq, Ipad Pro
 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Warner Brothers Animation: Tiny Toons Toonversity: Storyboard Artist 2021-2022
Storyboard Scripted show that contained comedy, and action scenes.

ThunderCats Roar: Storyboard Revisionist. 2018-2019   
Assist the Storyboard team by revising comedy and action scenes, putting characters on model, tackling directorial, action and production notes before shipment.
 

DreamWorks Animation: TrollsTopia- Story Revisionist-2020-2021

Assisting Storyboard artists and directors with cleaning up rough and thumbs, redrawing sequences and handling other directorial notes given.

 

Netflix Animation:  Inside Job-Storyboard/ Revisionist- 2019-2020  Redraw/cleanup thumbnail board sequences given by directors. Compose new shots when appropriate.