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Danie Townsley
(541) 404-4649
www.DanieTownArt.com
DanieDreams@gmail.com

Skills

Professional Experience

Fabrication
• Model Making
• Rapid Prototyping  - Working with and designing 3d  
  Printed Assets
• Armature Construction/Design
• Soldering - Silver and Brazing
• Rigging for Stop-Motion Puppets
• Preparing files for and operating a Universal Laser
• Mold Making, Casting
• Sculpting
• Felting
• Flocking
• Hair and Fur design for Puppets
• Facial Animation Testing/Troubleshooting
• Airbrush Painting

​Stop Motion Animation
• Dragonframe
• iStopMotion

After Effects 
• Rig Removal
• Color Keying
• Rotoscoping
• Animation

Maya
• Animation
• Modeling (preparing for RP)
• Texturing/Lighting

​Adobe Creative Suite
• Photoshop
  - Cleanup
  - Compositing
• Illustrator
  - Print Graphics
  - Illustration
• InDesign
• Dreamweaver
• Flash
  - Asset Creation
  - Animation

​Fusion 360

​Blender
September 2020 - April 2022
Shadowmachine - Puppet Wrangler, Puppet Fabricator, Face Librarian
Stop Motion Studio - Portland, OR
Responsibilities:
•    Building stand-in puppets for lighting/framing
•    Designed an eye-rig for MacKinnon and Saunders
•.   Gathering, processing, and testing faces for shots.
•.   Working with animators to get specific performances.
•.   Problem solving and inventing.
August 2020 - September 2020
House Special - Model Maker
Stop Motion Studio - Portland, OR
Responsibilities:
•    Building mock-ups of props from design drawings.
•    Using various hand tools and wood shop tools to build final props.
•    Taking feedback and incorporating it into prop changes to meet art directors' needs.
•    Preparing props for molding and casting, cleaning up casts, and reassembling duplicates.
•    Making tools and jigs for consistent fabrication.
June 2019 - Present
Laika - Model Maker
Stop Motion Studio - Portland, OR
Responsibilities:
•    Building mock-ups of props from design drawings.
•    Using various hand tools and wood shop tools to build final props.
•    Taking feedback and incorporating it into prop changes to meet art directors' needs.
•    Preparing props for molding and casting, cleaning up casts, and reassembling duplicates.
•    Making tools and jigs for consistent fabrication.
April 2018 - June 2019
Ozwest - Animator
Stop Motion Studio - Portland, OR
Responsibilities:
•    Animating shots and working with the editor to achieve the performance requested.
•    Animating at least twelve seconds a day with multiple characters and props.
•    Model making.
•    Set Lighting and camera setup for each shot.
•    Making tools for animating and fabrication.
January 2013 - March 2018
Laika - Rapid Prototype Fabricator
Stop Motion Studio - Hillsboro, OR
Responsibilities:
•    Preparing 3D printed parts for use in building puppet heads.
•    Fine-tuning RP heads and faces for animation.
•    Supporting animators to get puppets ready for specific actions. 
•    Animating tests for impacts, squash and stretch, and intersection with hands/objects.
•    Work with the assistant directors to make sure each shot involving RP parts is as perfect as can be.
•    Inventing tools to solve problems, using molding and casting, laser cutting, sculpting, and modeling and printing.
July 2011 - December 2012
Bent Image Lab - Puppet Fabricator, Lead Rigger, Puppet Wrangler, Junior Animator
Stop Motion Studio - Portland, OR
Responsibilities:
•    Hair and fur for various animal puppets.
•    Puppet repair and running the Puppet Hospital.
•    Animating shots and working with the director to achieve the performance requested.
•    Catalogued puppets and kept a stage schedule for them. 
•    Rigging shots and managing the rigging department.
•    Track reading.
•    Prop creation and set dressing.

Awesomeness

Second Degree Black Belt and instructor in Kiyo-Ju Karate and Jujitsu.