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Danie Townsley |
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 |
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.