taylor cook

taylor cook

I animate things

Senior Animator / Senior Previs Artist / 17 yrs

Los Angeles

Hire Me

Senior Animator

The Electric State (2025)

Senior Animator

Twisters (2024)

Senior Animator

Dune: Part Two (2024)

Senior Animator

Candy Cane Lane (2023)

Senior Animator

The Killer (2023)

Senior Animator

Ahsoka (2023)

Animator

Extraction 2 (2023)

Lead Animator

I Am Groot (2022)

Lead Animator

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

Animator

Eternals (2021)

Animator

Shang-Chi (2021)

Lead Animator

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

Hawkeye (2021)

Animator

The Mandalorian (2019)

Story Animator

The Last of Us II (2020)

Animator

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Animator / Previs Artist

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

Animator

Love, Death & Robots (2019)

Animator

The Christmas Chronicles (2018)

Senior Animator

Justin Timberlake: Filthy (2018)

Animator

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

Animator / Camera and Previz

Anomaly (2014)

Freelance Previs Artist

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

Animator

Rock Band 3 (2010)

Character Animator

Green Day: Rock Band (2010)
Animation Reel 2019 - Taylor Cook
commercial animation reel
I can animate anything you need. Acting shots, physical shots, complex previs and camera work for entire sequences. I can set some mean keys or work with mocap to get that extra polish that you need.

I also run a small-batch coffee roasting business, so if you need some high quality coffee to keep your artists churning out amazing work, feel free to get in touch. =)
Work History

  • Senior Animator

    Industrial Light & Magic

    February 2023 - May 2025

  • Senior Animator

    The Mill

    November 2022 - December 2022
    Los Angeles, California, United States

  • Senior Animator

    Wylie Co.

    May 2022 - September 2022
    Los Angeles, California, United States

  • Lead Animator

    Luma Pictures

    August 2020 - April 2022
    Santa Monica, California, US

    Lead animator on a few shows

  • Animator

    Industrial Light & Magic

    June 2020 - August 2020
    Los Angeles

    Mandalorian Season 2

  • Animator

    Framestore

    January 2020 - June 2020
    Los Angeles

    Previs and Final Animation for something really fun.

  • Animator

    Naughty Dog

    September 2018 - December 2019
    Santa Monica, California, US

    The Last of Us Part 2

    Lead Level Animator (This job covered a lot. Feel free to reach out if you're curious about all the responsibilities involved.)

  • Senior Animator

    Framestore

    July 2018 - August 2018
    Los Angeles

  • 3D Animator

    Method Studios

    May 2018 - June 2018
    Santa Monica, California, US

  • 3D Animator

    Method Studios

    April 2018 - May 2018
    Santa Monica, California, US

  • Character Animator

    Little Zoo Studio

    January 2018 - April 2018

    Animation for Love Death & Robots: Shapeshifter

    Animation for Cricket Wireless commercial.

  • Animator

    Method Studios

    November 2017 - December 2017

  • Animator

    MPC

    November 2017 - November 2017

  • Senior Character Animator

    Method Studios

    October 2017 - October 2017

  • Lead Animator

    The Mill

    August 2017 - September 2017

  • Senior Animator

    Method Studios

    July 2017 - July 2017

  • Animator

    Industrial Light & Magic

    January 2016 - May 2017
    San Francisco

    Captain America: Civil War
    TMNT2: Out of the Shadows
    Transformers: The Last Knight

  • Character and Creature Animation/Previs/Other Stuff

    The Mill

    April 2013 - December 2015
    New York City, NY, United States

    Valspar, Nintendo, KMart, Coca Cola, Geico, Progressive, Google, Dawn, Diesel, Morgan Stanley, and all kinds of other fun things!

  • Freelance Previs Artist

    Mr. X

    February 2013 - March 2013
    New York City, NY, United States

    previs for feature film (Anchorman 2)

  • Animator/Generalist/All-round-cg-maker

    My Active Driveway

    October 2011 - February 2013

    Lowe's, Duncan Hines, Clear, Starbucks, Mercedes, Bmw, NHL

  • Freelance Animator

    Napoleon Group

    September 2011 - October 2011

  • Freelance Animator

    My Active Driveway

    August 2011 - September 2011

    Character animation

  • Lead Character Animator

    321 Launch

    January 2010 - July 2011

    Character Animation, Mocap(Direction, Cleanup, Retargeting), Layout/Camera

    Coca-Cola, Budweiser, Fanta, Lipton, Folgers, Special K, and so many others

  • Freelance Animator

    Curious Pictures

    September 2009 - January 2010

    Created in-game character animation for RockBand:3 and RockBand: Greenday

  • Character Animator

    321 Launch

    June 2009 - August 2009

    Character Animation, Mocap Retargeting, Layout

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Education

  • AnimSquad

    November 2014 - February 2015

  • iAnimate

    May 2012 - July 2012

  • Pratt Institute

    2005 - 2009

  • Gobelins

    2008 - 2008