Janel Drewis
Animator
Senior Animator / 12 yrs
Richmond, CA
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Work History
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Animator
DreamWorks Animation
December 2022 - December 2023
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Walt Disney Animation Studios
May 2022 - August 2022Remote
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Pixar
March 2020 - April 2022Emeryville, California, US
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Sony Pictures Imageworks
May 2019 - February 2020Vancouver, BC
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Sony Pictures Imageworks
January 2019 - April 2019Vancouver, BC
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Animal Logic
August 2018 - December 2018Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada -
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Sony Pictures Imageworks
December 2017 - April 2018Vancouver, BC
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Fullbright
October 2016 - April 2017
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Telltale Games
August 2013 - May 2015San Rafael, CAResponsible for creating rough layout animations for outsourced animators to complete, as well as finalized animations for in game cutscenes and action sequences for The Walking Dead: Season 2, The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands, and Game of Thrones.
Created facial expressions and phoneme shapes for multiple characters across projects, coordinating with the Episode Director and Art Director for critique/approval.
Responsible for setting up procedural acting “Style Guides” for numerous characters, which included creating idle animations, gest
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Education
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Advanced Animation Critique
Animation Collaborative
July 2015 - September 2015 -
Animation Mentor
2012 - 2013 -
University of California, Berkeley
2009 - 2012