Alex Gordon

Work History

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  Animator/Illustrator

  Freelance

  September 1990 - Present

  Any work that falls outside my regular 9-5.
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  3D Generalist

  Relish Studios

  May 2023 - September 2023

  Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

   Created a pipeline to repurpose high quality assets designed for TV by re-topologizing, texturing, rigging and animating characters, props and environments into game ready assets
   Integrated assets into Unity optimized for mobile app parameters
   Designed interface to work in parallel with a peripheral device designed to teach young children the fundamentals of coding in a tactile manner
   Designed UI elements to be simple enough for 3-5 year olds to understand intuitively
   Created visually appealing FX and animations
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  3D Generalist/Artist

  Sinking Ship Entertainment

  January 2009 - June 2022

  Toronto, Ontario

  ▪ Starting at the ground level as the solitary Flash Animator in a small team of 4
  ▪ Created designs for new projects to build pitch packages and style guides including logos
  treatments, toy designs, games concepts and character designs
  ▪ Built practical hand made and 3D printed props for TV shows
  ▪ Developed a pipeline process to transform 8K movie quality creature models into similar looking
  mobile apps, augmented reality and virtual reality games
  ▪ Worked with programmers to understand and create procedural designs and workflow
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  Animator/Artist

  Fourth Wall Media

  December 2007 - December 2010

  Toronto, Ontario

   Primarily worked on a Flash web game for National Geographic Kids
   Created Motion Graphics and Video Editing for various companies
   Designed projects for advertising platforms including print, TV, interactive kiosks and websites and games.

• Animator/Illustrator

  4th Wall Media

  January 2006 - December 2009

  Website and game designs for arewethereyet.treehousetv.com
  Ads for various networks including the TTC, Sportinglife, North by North West, airports, residential networks, trade shows, and interactive kiosks.
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  Animator/Artist

  DHX Media

  July 2000 - December 2007

  Toronto, Ontario

  Helped build a new studio with a small team of 5 creating Flash animations for websites and games to compliment the many shows they produced
   Developed concepts for many pitches and style guides as well as some experimental animation techniques combining 2D, 3D and even Claymation

• Animator

  Decode Entertainment

  April 2000 - November 2006

  Flash animator creating web content for all shows.
  Concept development.