Wesley Chandler

Wesley Chandler

Lead Animator / Industry Mentor / 17 yrs

Vancouver, BC

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www.wesleychandler.com
Work History
  • Lead Animator

    Industrial Light & Magic

    October 2022 - October 2032
    Vancouver
  • Senior Animator

    Industrial Light & Magic

    August 2020 - October 2021
    Vancouver, Canada
  • Lucasfilm

    April 2021 - July 2021
  • Senior Animator

    Method Studios

    January 2020 - August 2020
    Vancouver, Canada Area
  • Animation Supervisor

    MPC

    October 2017 - September 2018
    Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    X-men: Dark Phoenix
    https://www.moving-picture.com/film/filmography/x-men-dark-phoenix/

  • Lead Animator

    MPC

    May 2017 - December 2017
  • Animation Supervisor

    MPC

    January 2017 - July 2017
    Montreal

    Blade Runner: 2049
    https://www.moving-picture.com/film/filmography/blade-runner-2049/

  • Lead Animator

    MPC

    November 2014 - December 2016
    Vancouver & Montreal

    -NDA Project
    - Goosebumps
    - Batman v Superman

  • Industry Mentor

    Vancouver Film School

    July 2014 - December 2015
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    Mentoring from Term 4 until graduation advising students on their demo reels and short films.

  • Senior Animator

    MPC

    August 2014 - November 2014
    Vancouver, BC

    NDA Project

  • Rigger

    Bardel Entertainment

    February 2014 - August 2014
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    VeggieTales: Veggies in the House

  • Rigger & Animator

    Endnight Games

    February 2014 - July 2014
    Vancouver, BC

    Project "The Forest" Steam Game:
    www.survivetheforest.com

    - Created rigs on boss creatures
    - Animated cycles for boss creatures and other mutants

  • Instructor

    The Art Institute of Vancouver

    February 2013 - June 2014
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    Teaching Animation Level 1.
    12 principles of animation, maya interface, workflow, developing critical eye, critiquing, physicality.

    Teaching Basic 3D Concepts.
    Basic Modelling, Texturing, UV-Layouts, Rigging, Animating, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing, Particle FX.

  • Animator

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    September 2010 - March 2014
    Vancouver

    'The Amazing Spiderman 2' (August 2013 - Present)

    'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Revenge of the LeftOvers'. (February 2013 - June 2013)

    'Oz: The Great and Powerful'. (March 2012 - February 2013)

    'Men in Black 3'. (September 2011 - March 2012)

    'The Smurfs'. (September 2010 - July 2011)

    Primarily Keyframe animation of characters, creatures, inanimate objects.
    Also able to mo-cap clean up, rotomation, match move, soft and hard track, reverse rigging, dynamics.

  • Senior Animator

    Nerd Corps Entertainment

    March 2008 - September 2010

    Animated on a new TV series in development (Monster High)

    Animated on the TV series "Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5".

    Animated on the TV series "League of Super Evil".

    Animated on the TV series "Storm Hawks".

  • Animator

    Theatre Crossing

    February 2008 - March 2008

    Film Title : P.O.E - Last days of the Raven.
    credited as CG animator.

    Tasks include:
    Animating rigs for visual effects artists.

  • Animator

    Private Eye Pictures

    January 2007 - March 2007

    Animated the Intro scene of the film 'My Inventions'

Education
  • The Art Institute of Vancouver

    2006 - 2008