Kelly Perez

Kelly Perez

Senior Animation Director / 17 yrs

Los Angeles, CA

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Animation Lead

All Hail King Julien: Exiled (2017)

Animation Lead-TV

All Hail King Julien (2014)

Previs Artist

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Currently full time Animation Director at Futureverse but available for Creative Direction consulting or commercial Directing.
Work History

  • First Female Visual Artist Partner

    McDonald's

    March 2021 - Present
    Los Angeles, California, United States

    First female visual artist to ever partner with McDonalds for a large scale exterior and interior art takeover for a Los Angeles restaurant.

    Through its first year of the Ritmo y Color McDonalds program they selected three artist from Miami, Huoston and Los Angeles to transform three restaurant locations across the nation with a final culmination at the Latin Grammy.
    www.Ritmoycolormcd.com

  • Senior 3D Animator

    Commercial/Film Studios

    January 2016 - Present
    Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

    I have worked for the following companies: Google, The Mill, NVIDIA, A52 Elastic, Gentelmanly Scholar, Psyop, Method Studios, Mousetrappe.

    Projects: Animating for Disney’s Tree of Life, Robin Hood, Energizer Bunny,
    Planter’s Peanut, Walmart, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and several
    undisclosed projects.

  • Animation Director

    Non-Fungible Labs

    July 2022 - June 2023

  • Animator

    NVIDIA

    February 2021 - March 2021
    Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

  • Commercial Director

    Fred Segal

    October 2020 - February 2021
    Los Angeles, California, United States

    Directed "P.S. I love you LA" commercial spot and sizzle reel for Live Shopping experience.

    Displaying in Los Angeles, Las Vegas & Tokyo.

  • Senior Animator

    Brud Inc

    May 2019 - May 2020
    Los Angeles, CA

  • Animator

    CoSA VFX

    January 2019 - February 2019
    Los Angeles, California

  • Senior 3D Animator

    Google

    September 2017 - January 2019
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    Animating for an undisclosed project

  • Senior Animator

    The Mill

    May 2017 - December 2018
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    Animating characters for an undisclosed project.

  • Senior Animator

    MPC

    July 2018 - September 2018
    Los Angeles, California

    Call of The Wild (2019)

  • Senior Animator

    Method Studios

    October 2017 - December 2017
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    Animating Mocap in Maya and Unity for an AR Feature Film experience.

  • Senior Animator

    Mousetrappe

    February 2017 - May 2017
    Burbank

    Animating characters for an undisclosed project.

  • Animation Lead-TV

    DreamWorks Animation

    May 2014 - June 2016
    Glendale, CA

    -Supervise, note, and approve incoming animation scene for the Emmy winning
    show, All Hail King Julien (54 episodes, 22 minutes each, Season 1,2,3).

    -Create animation and layout style guides.

    -Advice CG assets and CG doability with writers and story board artist.

    Check it out on Netflix!

  • Animator

    Psyop

    May 2014 - May 2014
    Venice, California

    Animation for Samsung World Cup Short film and commercial.

  • Animator/ Layout Artist

    The Third Floor

    March 2014 - May 2014

    Animate cameras, characters, and props for previsualization of feature films.

    Film: Guardians of the Galaxy

  • Animator

    Brain Zoo Studios

    July 2013 - January 2014
    Van Nuys

    Animation for Marvel Heroes Unleashed 2.

  • Animator

    Zerofractal

    October 2012 - June 2013
    Freelance

    Worked on a Disney project animating Mickey Mouse for interactive rides using Unity.

  • Animator

    Pivot VFX

    January 2013 - May 2013
    Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

    The Smurfs 2
    - worked in conjunction with Sony Imageworks
    - animation on "The Legend of Smurfy Hollow" short, The Smurfs 2 feature film, and TV promos

  • Professor-Animation

    University of New Mexico

    January 2013 - May 2013
    Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

    Teaching Intro to animation course where students learn the principles of animation. I cover all aspects of animation from planning to final polished animation.

  • Animation Resident

    Digital Domain

    June 2012 - August 2012
    Pt St Lucie

    Animation on Legend of Tembo.

  • Maya Springboard Teacher

    Animation Mentor

    October 2011 - December 2011

    Teach students the basic ins and outs of Maya in order to develop a basic workflow, learn basic terms used in CG and ultimately allow them to use Maya simply as a tool.

  • Animation Intern

    Laika

    July 2011 - September 2011
    Portland, OR

    In charge on animating a variety of characters for Toy R Us holiday
    commercial campaign.

    Click the links below to see the full commercials.
    http://vimeo.com/34765657

    http://vimeo.com/34765617

  • Character Animator

    HB Studios

    October 2008 - October 2009

    I key animates and edited mocap animation for a variety of titles from EA and HB studios on multiple platforms.
    Published Title:
    -Backyard Sports Sandlot Sluggers for Xbox 360 and Wii.
    -FIFA10 for Playstation 2, PSP and PC.
    -Discgolf for Wiiware

  • Character Animator

    Arabian Nights

    February 2008 - October 2008

    I animate quadruped and biped animations for online video game characters.

  • Intern-Animation

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    June 2006 - July 2006

    Completed the Summer Training Program in Visual Effects and Animation, while working in a simulated production environment.

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Education

  • Character Animation

    Animation Mentor

    2009 - 2011

  • Bachelors of Fine Art & Bachelors of Art in BFA-Art Animation and BA

    University of Central Florida

    2003 - 2007

  • Theater

    Florida International University

    ? - ?