Frederick Gardner

Work History

• Production Designer/Background Design

  Trilogy Entertainment Group

  July 2023 - July 2023

  Visual Development & Design for the animated series, "Earth to Eden", for Trilogy Entertainment.
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  Background Design

  Nickelodeon Movies

  August 2022 - April 2023

  Vis Dev & Design Backgrounds for the animated film, "Baby Shark Movie".
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  Visual Development & Background Design

  Hornet Inc.

  June 2022 - June 2022

  Visual Development & Background Design for the McDonald's Commercial, "Happy Meal Shelf Elf" for Hornet, NY.
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  Visual Development

  Nickelodeon Movies

  July 2022 - July 2022

  Visual Development for the animated film, Loud House 2, for Nickelodeon Movies
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  Visual Development

  Nickelodeon Movies

  May 2022 - May 2022

  Visual Development & Design for the animated film, "Casagrandes" for Nickelodeon Movies
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  Models / Props

  The Walt Disney Studios

  April 2022 - January 2023

  Design Models & Props for the Pixar animated series "Monsters At Work"
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  Visual Development

  Imagine Entertainment

  February 2022 - March 2022

  Visual Development for the animated series and toys related to "Bug Tron" for Imagine Entertainment.

• Background Designer

  Shadow Machine

  December 2021 - May 2022

  Design & Clean Background Designs for the Shadow Machine animated series, "Strange Planet", for Apple TV.
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  Creative Art Director/Designer

  Groove Jones

  February 2020 - April 2020

  Dallas, TX

  Design the look for 2 VR nautical themed games to be used on Royal Caribbean cruise lines and supervise the artists on the design/dev team. Design VR forest experience for Saleforce.
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  Background & Prop Design

  Netflix Animation

  February 2019 - October 2019

  Hollywood, CA

  Design Backgrounds & Props for the television series "Maya & the Three"

• Owner

  Frederick Gardner Design

  March 1999 - August 2019

  Burbank, CA

  Freelance Concept Art and Design for film, television, commercials and toys.
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  Designer

  Hornet Inc.

  January 2019 - June 2019

  New York City, NY

  Style & Design locations for McDonalds & Amazon tv commercials
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  Background Designer

  Wild Canary Animation

  December 2016 - June 2019

  Burbank, CA

  Stylist/Background & Prop Design for the Disney Jr series, "Puppy Dog Pals"
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  Background Designer

  Walt Disney Television Animation

  January 1995 - May 2019

  Universal City, CA

  Head of Design Dept for "Hercules" Senior Background Designer for "Hercules", "101 Dalmations", "House of Mouse", "Another Goofy Movie", "Little Mermaid 2".
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  Vis Dev Artist

  Warner Bros. Animation

  February 2019 - March 2019

  Dallas, TX, United States

  Visual Development for "Space Jam 2"

  
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  Visual Development/Art Director

  Reel FX

  December 2009 - March 2019

  Dallas, TX, United States

  Establish a visual style and design locations, props and scenery for a 3D CG-animated film, Time Turkeys.

  
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  Background & Prop Designer

  6 Point Harness

  May 2014 - April 2015

  Glendale, CA

  Background and Prop Design for the Nick Jr TV series, "Fresh Beats - Band of Spies"
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  Art Director/VFX Supervisor/Vis Dev Artist/Designer

  Reel FX

  October 2010 - November 2013

  Supervise artists and visual development of new project, train art apprentices, previsualize new locations, style/design new models, environments, characters & FX.
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  Production Designer

  Warner Bros. Animation

  May 2009 - January 2010

  Burbank, CA

  Set a visual style and develop locations, props and scenery for the animated feature, "Tom & Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes".
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  Visual Development

  Bento Box Entertainment

  December 2009 - December 2009

  North Hollywood, CA

  Visual Development for the Fox TV series, "Allen Gregory"
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  Stylist/Production Artist

  Laika

  October 2006 - January 2009

  Portland, OR

  Visual Development for the animated film, "Jack & Ben".
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  Production Designer

  Laika

  April 2007 - March 2008

  Portland, OR

  "Jack & Ben" visual development, "Wingnuts" production design

• Background Designer

  DIC Entertainment

  February 2007 - March 2007

  Los Angeles, CA

  Background Designs for "Sushi Pack"

• Background Designer

  Tom T Animation

  2005 - 2006
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  Background Design

  Cartoon Network

  2000 - 2006
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  Background Designer

  Cartoon Network

  1999 - 2006

• Background Designer

  Tom T Animation

  September 2005 - October 2005

  Background Design

• Background Designer

  Dark Horse Entertainment

  March 2005 - April 2005

  Los Angeles, CA

  Background Design

• Production Designer

  Sony Pictures TV Animation

  1998 - 2000
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  Background Designer

  Warner Bros. Animation

  1991 - 1999

  
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  Layout/Prop Design

  Warner Bros. Animation

  1991 - 1997

• visual development artist

  DreamWorks Television

  June 1996 - November 1996

  Sherman Oaks, CA

  Develop new animated tv series for DreamWorks production.

• Prop Designer

  Hanna Barbera

  February 1996 - September 1996

  Hollywood, CA

  Design Props & Vehicle for "The NEW Adventures of Jonny Quest"
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  Background Designer

  Walt Disney Television Animation

  May 1996 - June 1996

  North Hollywood, CA

  Background/Prop Design for "The Mighty Ducks" animated series.

• Background/Prop Designer

  GRAZ ENTERTAINMENT

  August 1994 - January 1996

  North Hollywood, CA

  Background and Proo design for the Fox TV series, "The TIck".

• Background Designer

  New World Animation

  September 1995 - December 1995

  Los Angeles, CA

  Background Design
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  Background Designer

  Warner Bros Classic Animation

  1993 - 1995

• Character Animator/Character Layout/Character Designer

  Klasky Csupo Inc.

  June 1990 - October 1991

  Hollywood, CA

  Character Animation/Character Layout/Character, Background and Prop Design, Marketing Artist for 2nd & 3rd season of "The Simpsons", Character/Background Layout for "Rugrats" 1st Season.