Cassidy Curtis

Work History

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  Senior Staff Visual Designer

  Google

  April 2020 - Present
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  Senior Staff Visual Designer

  Google ATAP

  March 2015 - March 2020
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  Technical Art Lead

  Google

  March 2015 - March 2017

  
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  Supervising Animator

  DreamWorks Animation

  1998 - January 2015

  Projects:
  The Penguins of Madagascar (supervising animator)
  Home (animator)
  How to Train Your Dragon 2 (animator)
  Mr. Peabody and Sherman (animator)
  Turbo (animator)
  Madagascar 3 (supervising animator: Alex)
  How to Train Your Dragon (supervising animator: Toothless)
  Madagascar 2 (supervising animator)
  Madagascar Penguins' Christmas Caper (animator)
  Madagascar (animator)
  Over the Hedge (animator)
  Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (animator)
  Shrek the Halls (animator)
  Shrek the Third (animator)
  Shrek 2 (animator)
  Shrek (character TD)

  

  
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  Mentor

  Animation Mentor

  January 2006 - 2009

  I served as a mentor and video lecturer for students learning the principles of animation and developing their own short films.
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  Researcher / Instructor

  University of Washington

  1996 - 1998

  Research projects:
  Computer-Generated Watercolor
  Loose and Sketchy Animation
  Teaching: cse458, an interdisciplinary undergraduate animation class.
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  Pacific Data Images

  1994 - 1996

  In those days at PDI, "animator" meant generalist. I did effects animation, rigged and animated
  characters, wrote compositing scripts, and set up production pipelines for various commercials
  
  and effects jobs.
  
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• Xaos

  1992 - 1994

  
  Particle systems, image processing, and other unorthodox visual effects techniques.
  
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