Heather Carpini

Heather Carpini

Mid-level Animator / 20 yrs

United States

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Work History
  • Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser

    Carpini Appraisal Services LLC

    July 2015 - Present
    Newport News, VA

    Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser in the state of Virginia.

  • Remote Freelance Animator

    Freelance Animator

    January 2013 - Present
    Newport News, Virginia

    Creating character and prop animation for a variety of clients and projects including Films, Games and Commercials. Clients include Little Zoo Studios, Firaxis Games, Cortina Productions, Darkside Animation, and others.

  • Animator

    Darkside Animation

    February 2017 - March 2017
  • Remote Freelance Animator

    Little Zoo Studio

    November 2014 - March 2016
  • Animator

    Blue Sky Studios

    August 2011 - April 2012

    Working on Ice Age: Continental Drift

  • Remote Animator

    Reel FX

    May 2011 - July 2011

    created character performance for a TV Christmas special while working remotely.

  • Animator

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    January 2011 - April 2011

    Worked as an animator on the feature film "Green Lantern". Worked on a wide variety of shots including technical plate tracking shots, keyframe full body character shots and dialog shots.

  • Remote Freelance Animator

    Four Directions Productions

    June 2010 - February 2011

    Currently doing remote freelance animation work on the Film "My Home"

  • Animator / Graphic Artist

    Digital Tap, LLC

    July 2008 - September 2010

    Character Animator on the direct-to-DVD episode "Zap Squad: The Sands of Time". I also helped to created 2D and 3D graphics and visuals for a wide variety of projects including architectural visualizations, flythroughs and presentations.

  • Blue Sky Studios

    June 2009 - November 2009
  • Animator

    Blue Sky Studios

    July 2007 - December 2007

    Character animation on the feature film "Horton Hears a Who!". Also contributed to crowd set up and animation as well at fix animation.

  • Character Animator

    Four Directions Productions

    February 2004 - July 2007

    Responsible for all Character Animation on the award winning short film "Raccoon & Crawfish" as well as various other projects

  • Co-Director

    Four Directions Productions

    January 2006 - February 2007

    Co-Director on the award winning short film "Raccoon & Crawfish" www.raccoonandcrawfish.com

  • Freelance Animator

    Glueworks Animation

    October 2004 - October 2006

    In this position I worked as a freelance animator on 2 straight to video children's DVD's. , "Hermie and Friends: Stanley the Stinkbug" and "Hermie and Friends: Milo the Mantis"

  • Freelance Animator

    Peculiar Pictures

    June 2002 - July 2002

    Freelance character animator working on the childrens video "Hermie: A Common Caterpillar"

Education
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Computer Animation

    Ringling College of Art and Design

    1998 - 2002