Stephen Mann

Work History

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  Lead Creature TD

  Method

  July 2021 - July 2022

  NYC
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  character TD

  Freelance

  January 2021 - April 2021
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  character TD

  Freelance

  August 2020 - August 2020

  WFH
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  Character Td / cg lead

  Framestore

  December 2018 - July 2019

  New York
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  CG Supervisor

  Nathan Love

  September 2017 - June 2018

  New York NY

• Rigging TD

  Free Range Animation

  November 2016 - June 2017

  red bank NJ
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  Shade VFX

  July 2015 - October 2016

  
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  Lead Character TD

  Charlex

  November 2003 - June 2015

  Responsible for all character setup and pipeline within the 3D dept.

• adjunct Professor

  NY School of Visual Arts

  September 2000 - June 2009

  Animation and Production Professor for the BFA computer animation Dept.
  Responsible for class creation and teaching, for production skills, and animation II.
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  CharacterTD

  Blue Sky Studios

  March 2003 - November 2004

  Responsible for rigging characters, props, sets and developing new methods of character creation for the motion picture "Robots".
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  Character TD

  American Museum of Natural History

  January 2003 - March 2003

  Responsible for the creation of several creations for the space show. Model, Rig, Animate, Texture.

• Co-visual Fx supervisor

  Kleiser-Walczak

  November 2000 - October 2002

  Responsible for creating content for Theatrical Films, Ride Films, and Television commercials. This included planning, modeling, rigging, animation, fx, and sometimes texturing and lighting.
  Films:
  "X-men", "The One"
  Ride Films:
  "Santa Lights up NY" for Radio City Music Hall
  "Corkscrew Hill" for Busch Gardens Virginia
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  Cg Supervisor

  Hornet Inc.

  April 2002 - 2002

  Responsible for Bidding, Planning, and Creating Commercials, and sports oriented films.
  Also responsible for Managing artists, computer networks,and individual workstations.
  Of note were television commercials for Foot Joy, Sports Films for the NJ JETS FOOTBALL FRANCHISE, and Promotional images for RockStar games, 'Midnight Club"
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  SOST trainer

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  January 1999 - November 1999

  Trained and aided artists for the production of Stuart Little. Maya beta - 1.0 All aspects.