David Badgerow

Work History

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  Animator

  DreamWorks Animation

  May 2023 - April 2024

  Glendale

  Trolls: Band Together (2023)
  The Wild Robot (2024)

  
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  Character Animator

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  October 2021 - April 2023

  Burbank, CA

  Zootopia+ (2022)
  Strange World (2022)
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  Character Animator

  DreamWorks Animation

  October 2018 - October 2021

  Glendale, CA
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  Senior Animator

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  September 2017 - May 2018

  
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  temp animator

  Blue Sky Studios

  May 2017 - August 2017

  Greenwich, CT
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  Character Animator

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  February 2015 - May 2017

  Vancouver, Canada

  Responsible for creating believable character performances, animating primary and secondary digital characters.
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  Additional Animator / Motion Graphics & Design / Final Layou

  DreamWorks Animation

  April 2009 - January 2015

  Glendale, CA, United States

  Responsible for Additional Character Animation, Visual Development, Design, and Motion Graphics Animation. Responsible for animating and adjusting camera until finalized, updating characters and sets with final assets, set dressing, and occasional modeling, rigging and scripting.

  

• Technical Director

  South Park Studios

  February 2008 - November 2008

  Responsible for creating and rigging characters, backgrounds and props, creating necessary effects animation, and laying out scenes for lip sync artists and animators.

• Animator | Storyboard Artist | Design Consultant

  One Laptop Per Child

  July 2006 - September 2007

  Responsible for creating animations and polished storyboards to simulate and visually communicate possible GUI workflow and behaviors. Acted as design consultant to help formulate possibilities for help system design.

• Freelance Writer and Illustrator

  Cheboygan Daily Tribune

  January 1998 - June 2005

  Wrote and Illustrated an original comic strip, published on a weekly basis.

• Storyboard Artist | Visual Effects Artist | Web Designer + P

  Grapevine Productions

  June 2004 - September 2004

  Designed and illustrated storyboards, animatics, and produced final animation for television ads. Performed motion tracking, rotoscoping and digital manipulation of shots for Cartoon Network, ABC Family and Toon Disney. Acted as on-site Visual Effects Supervsior for commercial shoot. Created an entire company website including design, animation, authoring and sound.