Daniel Mandina

Work History

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  Senior Animator

  The Embassy

  January 2025 - May 2025
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  Animator

  The Embassy

  November 2024 - November 2024

  House of David TV Show
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  Animator

  Wildbrain studios

  May 2024 - November 2024

  Lego Dreamzzz Season 3
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  Animator

  The Embassy

  February 2023 - February 2024

  The Spiderwick Chronicles Season 1 and Kalki 2898 A.D.
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  Senior Animator

  WildBrain

  July 2022 - February 2023

  Go, Dog, Go! Season 4
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  Lead Animator

  Wildbrain studios

  May 2022 - July 2022

  Fireman Sam Season 14, episodes #11 (Cave Calamity) and #14 (On the Rocks)
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  Senior Animator

  WildBrain

  March 2022 - April 2022

  Fireman Sam Season 14
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  Animator

  WildBrain

  February 2021 - March 2022

  Fireman Sam Season 13, Lego Friends: Heartlake Stories Specials and In the Night Garden: Zinky Zonk Specials
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  CG Generalist

  Abacus Brands Inc.

  April 2020 - January 2021

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  VR Projects
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  3D Animator

  MPC

  August 2019 - December 2019

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Projects: Sonic The Hedgehog (2020) and Cats (2019)
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  Junior Animator

  Hydraulx

  January 2019 - August 2019

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Daybreak Season 1
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  Graphic Designer

  Display Overstock

  September 2018 - December 2018

  In between projects, I worked as a freelance Graphic Designer to create and finalize artworks for Display Overstock´s clients
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  Junior Animator Artist

  Hydraulx

  March 2018 - August 2018

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  Greyhound

  
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  3D Artist / Graphic Designer

  Galaxy Displays

  May 2017 - March 2018

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Working mainly as a graphic design proof tech, my responsibilities included analysis of client artwork and making sure those were suitable for a large format printing. Giving the proper feedback with our seal of approval or requesting changes to ensure the best quality print was crucial to a successful pipeline between company and client. As a 3D Artist, I was tasked to create assets and deliver high quality renders for the website, making sure our clients could see the best possible representation of our products.
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  3D Artist

  Ace Studios (BR)

  May 2015 - November 2016

  Rio de Janeiro e Região, Brasil

  Working as a freelancer with Ace Studios to create an animated short film based on the WarZoo card game
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  Front End Developer

  Agência Traço

  September 2012 - August 2013

  Rio de Janeiro e Região, Brasil

  Adapt and code all front end (HTML and Javascript) for our clients;
  Create website layouts when requested;
  Create artwork for social media sharing;
  Follow an specific SEO strategy;
  Built responsive layouts adaptable to difterent kinds of devices, such as smartphones and tablets;

• Web Designer

  Virtual Motors

  July 2012 - August 2012

  Rio de Janeiro e Região, Brasil

  Consult with clients to plan and provide the best results for building websites and designing ads;
  Created and design website layouts following specific guidelines established by the agency;
  Developed website architecture and optimizing it to various platforms, specially mainstream browsers;
  Built responsive layouts adaptable to different kinds of devices, such as smartphones and tablets;
  Wrote and adjust the website coding according to an planned SEO strategy;
  Created and optimize e-mail marketing art to be visible on mainstream browsers and email softwares;
  Installed code and adapt the designed layouts to suit the agency's own CMS;

• Web designer

  Freelancer (self employed)

  July 2011 - June 2012

  Rio de Janeiro e Região, Brasil

  Several clients with various projects, ranging from brand designing, building and coding websites and create artwork for social media.

• Web Designer

  3R Studio Comunicação e Marketing

  April 2011 - June 2011

  Rio de Janeiro e Região, Brasil

  Desenvolvimento de websites internos e de clientes da empresa, com foco na criação das interfaces e da montagem dos layouts em xHTML/CSS e na implementação da programação dos respectivos projetos. Criação de anúncios digitais e impressos para a empresa, como newsletters, e clientes, principalmente os anúncios veiculados nas revistas publicadas pela 3RStudio Editora.
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  Web Designer

  X3M SPORTS BUSINESS

  February 2011 - March 2011

  Rio de Janeiro e Região, Brasil

  Desenvolvimento de peças publicitárias impressas e digitais para os eventos da empresa.

• Web Designer

  Zetha Probus Comunicação

  May 2010 - December 2010

  Rio de Janeiro e Região, Brasil

  Encarregado de produzir as interfaces dos websites da empresa, além de montá-los para a internet. Produção de peças publicitárias impressas, como banners e flyers, e digitais, como banners em flash e newsletters institucionais.

• Web Designer

  Studio Attila

  February 2009 - April 2009

  Desenvolvimento de interfaces de websites da empresa e implementação para a web.