Friedl Jooste

Work History

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  Head of Animation

  Goodbye Kansas

  May 2022 - Present

  Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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  Head of Animation

  Axis Animation

  February 2020 - April 2022

  Glasgow, United Kingdom
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  Animation Supervisor

  Axis Animation

  October 2015 - February 2020

  Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Supervised the animation for Helping hand, an episode of the Love death and robots series for Netflix. (Won a Scottish BAFTA)
  Supervised the animation for Kiss me first. (This won an RTS award)
  Supervised the animation for two straight to DVD Monster high films.
  Supervised/ Animation directed the animation for Happy season 1 episode 2 to 8 and Season 2
  Supervised the animation on cinematics for multiple game titles.
  Also contributed to the animation of most shows I supervised.
  Also did on set mocap supervision.
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  Animation Director

  Sunrise Productions

  January 2014 - October 2015

  Overseeing the animation for animated TV series as well as commercials.
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  Head of animation

  Character Matters

  February 2013 - January 2014

  I headed up the animation department for a short film.
  I was also creative director for a few smaller projects before taking another offer at Sunrise productions.
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  3D animator

  Modus FX

  July 2011 - December 2013

  Canada. QC

  I animated on a feature film called The legend of Sarilla. I did animation pre prod and development on the third installment of Riddick.
  I animated on Now you see me.
  I animated on a few episodes for a TV series for Discovery called Strip the City.

• Animation Trainer

  Trilogy

  June 2011 - July 2011

  Cape Town South-Africa

  I worked on a series of animation training videos for students.
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  Senior Animator, Animation Director, Director.

  Character Matters

  March 2007 - April 2011

  Cape Town South-Africa

  I worked as a senior animator on the feature film, The Lion of Judah towards the end I was promoted to the new animation Director for the studio. I then head up the animation for a pilot episode for a series called Zoovolution. I wrote and directed a tv series pilot called Gijima. I wrote and directed and also headed up the animation for a short film called Hooked. In-between I also animated on multiple commercials.
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  3D animator

  Blackginger

  October 2006 - February 2007

  Cape Town South-Africa

  I animated characters on multiple commercials.

• 3D animator

  Solid PDA

  May 2005 - September 2006

  Cape-Town South Africa

  I was responsible for animating 3D Characters, and to assist with the rigging of the characters.