Danielle Powers

Work History

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  Background Painter on Unannounced Show

  Nickelodeon Animation Studio

  July 2022 - November 2023

  Burbank, California, United States
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  Background Painter

  Nickelodeon

  August 2022 - September 2023
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  Environment Artist

  Sunrise Animation Studios

  August 2022 - February 2023

  Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa · Remote

  Vis Dev artist on the David feature. Release date 2025.
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  BG Painter & Vis Dev Artist

  Warner Bros.

  October 2016 - June 2022

  Burbank

  I worked on Green Eggs and Ham and Animaniacs as a Background Painter and Gremlins as a vis dev artist.
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  Vis Dev Artist

  Paramount Animation

  May 2016 - October 2016

  Hollywood, CA

  • Amusement Park (Feature).
  • Paint over CG models and design various background elements and props in Photoshop.
  • Texture callouts of realistically painted props.
  • Paint color keys over rough models and layouts.
  

  
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  Freelance Designer

  big idea

  June 2013 - September 2015

  Designed and painted props, lighting keys
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  Color stylist

  Disney ABC Television Group

  December 2013 - February 2015
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  Contract Concept Artist

  Disney Interactive Studios

  March 2013 - August 2013

  Glendale, CA

  • Concept artist on Frozen Build It and Stack Rabbit.
  • Create designs for game landmarks and props.
  • Create background layouts and full color rendering.
  • Some pre viz and production modeling.
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  Character Vis Dev Painter

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  January 2013 - March 2013

  Glendale, Ca

  • Character Vis Dev Painter for “Pirates” (Tinkerbell 5).
  • Create color keys for five of the main characters.
  • Render realistic paintings over character drawings, including ortho and 3/4 views.
  • Collect reference images for cloth, hair and surface materials to pass on to texture painters.
  • Apply textures to painted characters for texture reference.
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  Visual Development Artist

  Creation Studio Productions Limited

  December 2011 - December 2012

  • Primary visual development artist for an animated feature.
  • Helped establish the overall style of the film with the director and production designer.
  • Designed 12+ interior and exterior sets and dozens of props using Maya and Photoshop.
  • CG set design to establish layout and architecture of environments.
  • Digital paint over CG renders to create lighting and color keys.
  • Create texture and model reference pages for overseas studio.
  • Responsible for approving and writing notes for CG work from overseas studio.
  • Work primarily remotely with the production designer, director and storyboard artist.
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  CG Texture Artist Apprentice

  Nickelodeon Animation Studio

  May 2007 - May 2008

  Burbank, CA

  • Tak and the Power of Juju, The Penguins of Madagascar, Fanboy
  • Painted textures using Photoshop. Textures varied in style from slightly realistic to stylized and painterly. Texture seams were removed using BodyPaint, followed by detailed turnaround renders of each completed character and prop. All rendered was done using Maya Software.
  • Created complex shading networks in Maya including hand-painted and procedural. Materials created and edited included various metals, glasses, liquid, ice, plastic and slime. Edited existing shaders to suit the style of a particular show. All shaders were exported and saved in a collaborative shader library which I helped organize and contribute to.
  • Textured 100+ props, 20+ characters and sets.
  • Worked with Art Director to determine desired aesthetic of textures.
  • Organized reference material provided by Dreamworks Animation and helped create model packs for props and characters.
  • Worked with CG Supervisors to create optimal UV layouts for dozens of props and characters using Maya’s UV Texture Editor.
  • Modeled, lit and composited shots in Maya and After Effects.