Ryan Sias

Ryan Sias

Mid-level Storyboard Artist / 27 yrs

New York City, NY, United States

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Storyboarder

Robots (2005)

Freelance Storyboarder and character des

Bowling for Columbine (2002)

Work History
  • Project manager, Game Designer

    Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Networ

    November 2014 - Present

    Developing Ipad games for pre-school education. More information coming soon.

  • CEO

    Sias Studios

    February 2013 - Present

    Sias Studios free weekly emails are designed to promote creative thinking and foster children’s imaginations. Our original art projects encourage kids to invent their own stories and make art without boundaries. We provide a springboard for you child to dive into artistic discovery!

    Ryan creates doodle pages, Writing prompts and Drawing lesson pages every week.

  • Writer & Illustrator for picture books

    Freelance

    April 2006 - Present

    My books are
    "Zoe and Robot - Let's Pretend"
    "Are You Eating Something Red?"
    "Are You Eating Something Green?"

  • Freelance Storyboard Artist, screen layout

    MarcoPolo Learning

    March 2013 - April 2013

    Helped with visualization of how the game screens would look.

  • Storyboarder

    Sesame Workshop

    January 2012 - March 2013

    Storyboards for digital content

  • Freelance story boarder

    So! Animation

    May 2011 - October 2011
  • Storyboarder for Sesame English

    Sesame Workshop

    March 2009 - February 2011

    I get to draw Elmo, Big Bird and Cookie monster stroyboards to be used for Flash animation. This program is being used to teach Japanese children english. It's a dream come true for me!

  • Game Developer

    Pearson

    October 2007 - May 2009

    Developed mini games for FUNBRAIN.com playground area. Created 20 characters and mini games ideas, which they turned into awesome games!
    https://www.funbrain.com/brain/SweepsBrain/sweepsbrain.html

    Developed new levels for https://www.poptropica.com/

  • Storyboarder

    Cartoon Pizza

    August 2005 - March 2008

    Story boarded Nick Jr. Show Pinky Dinky Doo, along with a few other small projects.

  • Freelance cartoonist

    Nickelodeon

    2002 - October 2007

    I wrote and illustrated several comics for Nickelodeon magazine.

  • Freelance artist

    Game Laboratories

    2003 - July 2007

    I helped design early game concepts.

  • Freelance Story boarding

    Scholastic

    April 2004 - October 2004

    Storyboards for Maya and Miguel.

  • Storyboarder

    Blue Sky Studios

    2002 - 2003

    I storyboarded and wrote gags for the movie "Robots"

  • Storyboarder

    United Artists

    September 2001 - February 2002

    Storyboarded animated sequence on Oscar winning Bowling for Columbine.

  • Freelance Storyboarder and character designer

    Flickerlab

    November 2000 - December 2000

    With Flicker I have been doing storyboard and character design work. We met working on the oscar winning documentary "Bowling for Columbine". We have worked on "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead" a commercial for "United Teachers Federation" and many other projects.

  • Art director

    Reel FX

    1995 - 1999

    Creative Director. Responsibilities included storyboarding, art directing shoots, and supervising animators. Clients included Barney, Nickelodeon, Neiman Marcus, Budweiser, Benjamin Moore Paints, Six Flags, and Toyota.

Education
  • Ringling College of Art and Design

    1992 - 1996