Benjamin Cinelli

Benjamin Cinelli

I am a Character Animator who loves the art of animation.

Lead Character Animator / 26 yrs

Los Angeles, CA

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Animation Artist

Love, Death & Robots (2019)

Senior Character Animator

The Missing (2003)

Senior Animator

Raising a Rukus (2017)

Senior Animator

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

Lead Character Animator

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Lead Animator

Assassin's Creed Unity (2014)

Halo: The Master Chief Collection (2014)

Senior Character Animator

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Senior Character Animator

The Smurfs 2 (2013)

Senior Character Animator

Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)

Senior Character Animator

The Amazing Spiderman (2012)

Men in Black 3 (2012)

Senior Character Animator

The Smurfs (2011)

Senior Animator

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Senior Character Animator

G-Force (2009)

Senior Character Animator

Open Season 2 (2008)

Senior Character Animator

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)

Senior Character Animator

I Am Legend (2007)

Senior Character Animator

Surf's Up (2007)

Senior Character Animator

Monster House (2006)

Senior Character Animator

Monster House (2006)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

Character Animator

I, Robot (2004)

Senior Character Animator

Peter Pan (2003)

Senior Character Animator

Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)

Senior Animator

Spider-Man (2010)

Character Animator

Scooby-Doo (2002)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Character Animator

Cats & Dogs (2001)

Character Animator

Dungeons & Dragons (2000)

Character Animator

Little Nicky (2000)

Character Animator / Color And Lighting

Dragonheart: A New Beginning (2000)

Character Animator

The Patriot (2000)

Character Animator

Godzilla (1998)

Lead Character Animator

Dawn of Darkness

I have 22 years of experience working mostly in feature films as a Character Animator but also game cinematics, commercials, TV episodics as well as experience doing previs.
Work History

  • Senior Animator

    Blur Studio

    January 2019 - Present
    Culver City, CA

  • Senior Animator

    Framestore

    July 2018 - October 2018
    United States

  • Animator

    Blur Studio

    May 2018 - July 2018
    Culver City, CA

  • Character Animator

    Method Studios

    January 2018 - January 2018
    Santa Monica

  • Character Animator

    Framestore

    July 2018 - November 2018
    Culver City, CA

    Undisclosed product for a tech product

  • Lead Animator

    Method Studios

    October 2016 - December 2017
    Los Angeles, CA

    I was a supervising lead animator on a series of Target commercials as well as animating on commercials, a motion ride and music video.

  • Finals Animator

    The Third Floor

    July 2016 - October 2016

  • Lead Character Animator

    Digital Domain

    June 2015 - June 2016

  • Senior Character Animator

    Blur Studio

    November 2014 - December 2014
    Culver City, CA

    I helped out prevising Blur's first feature film "Deadpool".

  • Senior Animator

    Blur Studio

    November 2014 - December 2014

  • Lead Animator

    Digital Domain

    August 2014 - October 2014
    Playa Vista

    I worked on the Assassin's Creed Unity TV commercial providing character animation and overseeing a small team of animators.

  • Senior Character Animator

    Blur Studio

    June 2014 - August 2014
    Culver City

    I worked on the Halo Master Chief Cinematics as well as an unreleased commercial project.

  • Senior Character Animator

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    October 2004 - January 2014

    On some projects at Sony Imageworks I was involved in the early development testing out rigs and building facial libraries for characters. The movies I have animated on at SPI are The Amazing Spiderman 2, Edge of Tomorrow, Cloudy 2, The Smurfs 2, Oz the Great and Powerful, MIB 3, The Smurfs, Alice in Wonderland, G-Force, Open Season 2, Prince Caspian, I Am Legend, Surf's Up, Monster House, The Lion the Witch and the

  • Lead Character Animator

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    January 2010 - June 2010

    I led a team of up to 12 people for "The Smurfs" movie which involved critiquing animation, passing along animation director and client notes, and attending various client and internal meetings.

  • Senior Character Animator

    Digital Domain

    2003 - 2004

    I provided character animation for I Robot, Peter Pan, Looney Tunes back in Action and The Missing while at Digital Domain as well as animation for their commercial division.

  • Senior Character Animator

    Warner Bros. Animation

    August 2001 - May 2002
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    I worked on Scooby-Do the Movie providing animation for the demon characters as well as did development work on The Incredible Mr. Limpet which included modeling fish and doing animation tests.

  • Freelance Character Animator

    Radium

    October 2000 - May 2002
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    I freelanced at Radium when they needed animation work on Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The deadlines where short and I enjoyed the fast pace.

  • Senior Character Animator

    Wētā FX

    2002 - 2002

    I worked on the character Gollum as well as animated ents and did various other animation work.

  • Character Animator

    Rhythm & Hues Studios

    March 2001 - June 2001
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    I worked on the movie Cats & Dogs and provided facial animation that was applied to the live action animals.

  • Character Animator

    Mooncrescent Studios

    2000 - 2001

    I tested out the rigs being developed as well as provided facial reference for the lead character using photoshop.

  • Character Animator

    Vision Art

    February 2000 - September 2000
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    At Vision art I animated the opening of Dungeons & Dragons with a dragon character as well as lip sync for a character in Little Nicky.

  • Character Animator

    Centropolis Effects

    June 1999 - February 2000
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    This was my second time working at Centropolis and I returned to work on The Patriot.

  • Character Animator

    Metrolight Studios

    April 1999 - July 1999
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    I animated on the movie Dragonheart 2 while working at Metrolight.

  • Character Animator

    Centropolis Effects

    January 1998 - October 1998

    I joined Centropolis to work on Godzilla animating on Godzilla and the baby Godzillas.

  • Character Animator

    The Motion Syndicate

    September 1997 - July 1998
    Greater Los Angeles Area

    I animated, modeled, and rigged characters for the Tekken 3 video game cinematics.

  • Character Animator

    DreamWorks Animation

    1996 - 1997

    I was hired into the Dreamworks Artist Development Program as well as did work on the Shrek Test doing digitizing of the sculpted heads and animation.

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Education

  • Sheridan College

    1995 - 1996

  • Sheridan College

    1993 - 1995