David Latour

Work History

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  Coordinator

  Fanshawe College

  September 2017 - Present

  London, Canada

• Volunteer, Maintenance and Animal Foster Care

  Wildcare - San Rafael

  May 1997 - September 2017

  Concurrent with paid positions; care and treatment of injured and orphaned native wildlife for release back into wild. Training of non-releasable educational resident animals. Construction/design of animal enclosures and enrichment items. Artwork for newsletters, Large format murals, and education department needs. Children’s face painting for special events. Ask me about Opossums or Jackrabbits, or how to maintain a pool filter and pump.
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  Animation Coordinator

  Academy of Art University

  September 2010 - September 2017

  Animation instruction of Junior, Senior and Grad level students in the Animation and Visual Effects program. Promoted to Full-Time Animation Coordinator Sept 2011. Responsible for curriculum development and recruitment of part-time teaching staff.
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  Animation Lead

  Mega Pickle Entertainment

  April 2011 - April 2012

  Supervise remote international team of animators and rigging artists. Set aside rigging lead responsibilities when we were able to promote Giovanni to the role in Dec 2011. Responsible for work assignments, schedule and quality control. In addition, personally generating animation for in-game assets. Concurrent with Course Director responsibilities at Academy Art University and Ex’pression College.
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  Course Director

  Ex'pression College

  September 2010 - August 2011

  Instruction and curriculum design for GAD class "Animation for Games". Creator and Director of the Ex'pression College Morpheus Wardrobe Project. Additional instruction for AVE classes "Reel Pro1" and "Animation 2"
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  Animator

  ImageMovers

  August 2008 - September 2010

  Animation and motion capture editing for "Disney's A Christmas Carol" (2009) and "Mars Needs Moms" (2011)

  

  

• Lead Animator

  Underground Development / Activision

  September 2004 - August 2008

  In-game and cinematic animation and concept development for multi-platform videogames. Shipped X-men:The Official Movie Game. Promoted to lead animator in October of '06. Additional animation and movement design on 4 unpublished titles. Left when the company announced end of operations in 2008
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  Lead Animator

  Activision

  September 2004 - August 2008

  In-game and cinematic animation and concept development for multi-platform videogames. Shipped X-men:The Official Movie Game. Promoted to lead animator in October of '06. Additional animation and movement design on 4 unpublished titles. Left when the company announced end of operations in 2008
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  Lead Animator

  Z-Axis

  September 2004 - August 2008

  In-game and cinematic animation and concept development for multi-platform videogames. Shipped X-men:The Official Movie Game. Promoted to lead animator in October of '06. Additional animation and movement design on 4 unpublished titles. Left when the company announced end of operations in 2008
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  Instructor

  Academy of Art University

  August 2004 - December 2004

  Designed and taught classical animation course; 'Character Development in Animation'. Instructed 22 students on Saturdays for 15 weeks (concurrent with animation position at Z-Axis). Also taught online courses from fall 2008-2010 (concurrent with position at ImageMovers Digital)
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  Senior Animator

  Industrial Light & Magic

  September 1996 - August 2004

  Producing CG character animation for use in seventeen feature films and three television commercials. Responsible for layout and planning of numerous sequences as well as the training of junior animators.Worked as producer/animator on the short CG animated film "Let Go".
  
  My fimlography can be seen on IMDB;
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0490323/

  

  

  

  
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  Senior Animator

  Industrial Light & Magic

  1996 - 2004

  Producing CG character animation for use in seventeen feature films and three television commercials. Responsible for layout and planning of numerous sequences as well as the training of junior animators.Worked as producer/animator on the short CG animated film "Let Go".

  

  

• Animator

  Binder-Nagel-Ross New Media

  July 1996 - August 1996

  2d Animation and character design for “Word Play” series of children's interactive games. Used Macromedia Director