Wesley Chandler

Work History

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  Lead Animator

  Industrial Light & Magic

  October 2022 - October 2032

  Vancouver
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  Senior Animator

  Industrial Light & Magic

  August 2020 - October 2021

  Vancouver, Canada
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  Lucasfilm

  April 2021 - July 2021

  
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  Senior Animator

  Method Studios

  January 2020 - August 2020

  Vancouver, Canada
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  Animation Supervisor

  MPC

  October 2017 - August 2018

  Montréal, Canada
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  Lead Animator

  MPC

  May 2017 - December 2017

  
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  Animation Supervisor

  MPC

  January 2017 - June 2017

  
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  Lead Animator

  MPC

  August 2014 - December 2016

  -NDA Project
  - Goosebumps
  - Batman v Superman

  

  

  

  
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  Industry Mentor

  Vancouver Film School

  July 2014 - December 2015

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

  MPC

  August 2014 - November 2014

  NDA Project

  
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  Rigger

  Bardel Entertainment

  February 2014 - August 2014

  VeggieTales: Veggies in the House
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  Rigger & Animator

  Endnight Games

  February 2014 - July 2014

  Project "The Forest" Steam Game:
  www.survivetheforest.com
  
  - Created rigs on boss creatures
  - Animated cycles for boss creatures and other mutants
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  Instructor

  The Art Institute of Vancouver

  February 2013 - June 2014

  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.
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  Animator

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  September 2010 - March 2014

  '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.

  

  

  

  

  
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  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'