John T. Coomey

Work History

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  Senior Animator

  Lumatic Animation & VFX

  November 2023 - May 2024

  Berlin, Germany
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  Senior Animator

  Giant Animation

  August 2023 - October 2023

  Remote

  
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  Senior Animator

  Doghouse Films

  March 2023 - July 2023

  Remote
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  Animator

  Cinesite

  June 2022 - January 2023

  Remote

  Character Animator

  
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  Animator

  Lumatic GmbH & Co

  November 2021 - May 2022

  Berlin, Germany

  
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  Animator

  Studio Rakete

  August 2021 - October 2021

  Remote

  
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  Senior Animator

  Blue Zoo Productions

  March 2021 - July 2021

  London, GB
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  Animator

  Piranha Bar

  September 2020 - March 2021

  Remote
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  Senior Animator

  Giant Animation

  May 2020 - August 2020

  Remote
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  Animator

  Piranha Bar

  December 2019 - March 2020

  Dublin, Ireland
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  Animator

  Moetion Films

  April 2019 - October 2019

  Remote
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  Lead Animator

  Brown bag films

  September 2016 - March 2019

  Dublin, Ireland

  Lead Animator on "Butterbean's Café"
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  Character Animator and Layout artist

  Magic Light Pictures

  August 2015 - August 2016

  Berin

  Character Animator and Layout Artist

  

  
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  Lead Animator

  Brown bag films

  June 2014 - July 2015

  Dublin

  Lead Animator on Doc McStuffins Season 3

• Character Animator

  Moetion Films (AKA Tidal films)

  January 2014 - June 2014

  Animator on the up coming feature film "Ooops Noah is gone"
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  Animator

  Brown bag films

  September 2013 - December 2013

  Animator on Bing Bunny
  Retakes animator on Doc McStuffins
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  3D Animator

  Aardman Animations

  September 2013 - September 2013

  Freelance 3D Animator
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  Character Animator

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  January 2013 - July 2013

  Character Animator on "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2"

  
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  Character Animator

  Studio Soi

  May 2012 - July 2012

  May to Aug:
  Character animator for Studio Soi on Magic Light's, award winning and Oscar nominated , 30 minute TV-special for The BBC. Julia Donaldson's "Room on the Broom"
  
  - Oscar Nominated
  - Intl. Emmy Kids Award for best animation 2014
  - Childrens BAFTA for best animation 2013
  - 'Cristal' award for best TV production, Annecy 2013
  - 'Best animated short' film 2013: TIFF Kids International Film Festival
  - 'Award from the children': XIX Film Festival Della Lessinia
  - 'Best Film for Children' at the Bradford Animation Festival
  - 'Adult Jury Prize' for bes
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  Character Animator

  Tidal Films

  August 2011 - April 2012

  Character Animator on Tidal's, co produced, animated feature, "Niko 2"
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  Character Animator

  Studio Soi

  May 2011 - August 2011

  Character animator for Studio Soi on the Magic Light short film
  "The Gruffalo's Child", for the BBC

  

• Character Animator

  Magma Films

  May 2010 - April 2011

  Working on Magma's Co. Production with Caoz on the animated feature "The Legend of Valhalla:Thor"
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  Cut scene Character Animator

  TT Games

  January 2009 - May 2010

  Lego Rock Band (Cutscene animator)...PS3, XBOX, Wii
  Indiana Jones 2 (Cutscene animator)...DS, PSP
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  Freelance Cutscene Animator

  Eurocom

  December 2008 - March 2009

  I worked as an animator on a number of cut scenes for the Ice Age 3 video game.
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  Freelance character animator

  Brown bag films

  April 2008 - September 2008

  I worked as a freelance character animator on the childrens show "Oliva", which is currently running on Nick Jnr.

• Character animator and Generalist

  Big Bad Wolf

  June 2005 - November 2006

  Modelled, Rigged and animated the character for their currently in production short film.. Lead a team of between 2 and 6 people on another project for a road safety campaign which involved liaising with clients and ensuring the final out put was what they were looking for..