Darren Fereday

Work History

• Freelance Visual Development Artist

  Darren Fereday - Concept Design and Illustration

  August 2008 - Present

  Freelance Artist for a number of Clients, generating Concept Art, Storyboards, Illustration, Matte Painting and CG Modeling
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  Modeler, Background Artist

  Cloth Cat Animations

  February 2015 - May 2016

  Cardiff

  Responsible for CG modelling and background painting for feature animation Ethel and Ernest
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  Matte Painter

  Bait Studio

  March 2015 - April 2015

  Matte Painter on an upcoming Feature Film
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  Part Time Lecturer - 2nd/3rd Years BA(Hons) Animation

  University of South Wales

  January 2014 - January 2015

  Teaching general storyboard, painting, character, background and story ideas
  
  Live Workshop based demonstrations, industry practice instruction.
  
  Co-Lecturer on Visual Forms Module with 2nd Years BA(Hons) Animation
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  Freelance Art Director

  BBC

  April 2014 - April 2014

  Creating Graphic work for Wizards vs Aliens Series 3

• Digital Sculptor/Modeller

  Freelance

  November 2013 - January 2014

  Digital Maquette Sculpting - Broadcast children's CG animation
  Assisting in low res animation mesh creation

• Concept Illustrator - Da Vinci's Demons Season 2

  DVD2

  March 2013 - October 2013

  Visual Development and Design

• Freelance Matte Artist

  Luma London

  February 2013 - March 2013

  Freelance Matte Artist working under the direction of Martyn Pick
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  Matte Painter

  MPC

  October 2012 - December 2012

  Freelance Matte Painter on Sky Christmas and Stella Artios Commercials for MPC London

• Concept Artist - Da Vinci's Demons

  Tonto Films

  March 2012 - September 2012

• VFX Matte Artist

  Bait Ltd

  January 2012 - March 2012

  Disney's Winnie the Pooh - VFX Matte Artist

• Matte Painter

  Red Wire VFX

  November 2011 - November 2011

  Matte painting panoramic scenes for an upcoming BBC Wales show "Story of Wales"
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  Matte Painter

  Dinamo Productions

  August 2011 - October 2011

  Matte Painter on upcoming 2012 BBC show "The Story of Wales"

• Matte Painter

  Movie Mogul

  March 2011 - March 2011

  Matte Painter on several shots which involved object placement, replacing elements, and general matte painting tasks
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  Senior Concept Artist

  MPC

  August 2010 - October 2010

  Freelance Senior Concept Artist for the Moving Picture Company for the Sky 360 commercial

• Concept Artist

  Codex Productions

  March 2010 - August 2010

  Additional visual development, from additional concept design, matte painting and rotoscoping on an Undisclosed Feature Film Production

• Freelance Artist

  Codex Pictures / Good Story Productions

  January 2010 - March 2010

  Freelance Artist - VFX R+D for Feature Film

• Concept Artist

  Codex Productions

  July 2009 - December 2009

  Handling preproduction of locations of CG film, using Sketchup to block in locals, assist shots for storyboard artists, and digital and traditional media to concept and design the locations required.
  Look and feel concept and illustrations.
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  Freelance Artist

  Dinamo Productions

  October 2008 - December 2008

  Prep Artist on yet undisclosed teen and preschool TV shows

• Freelance Artist

  Good Story Productions

  August 2008 - September 2008

  Orthographic work