Taylor Armstrong

Work History

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  Senior Compositor

  Alkemy X

  March 2023 - May 2023
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  Senior Compositor

  FuseFX

  February 2023 - March 2023
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  Head Of VFX/Finishing

  Cosmo Street

  February 2021 - January 2023
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  Senior Compositor

  Devastudios, Inc.

  January 2021 - February 2021

  After Effects work for a commercial spot.
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  Senior Compositor

  Loom LLC

  January 2021 - January 2021

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  Compositing in Nuke and Motion Graphics work in After Effects for two campaigns.
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  After Effects Artist

  Cosmo Street

  December 2020 - December 2020

  Animation & Finishing tasks for a few projects.
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  Senior Compositor

  Encore VFX

  April 2019 - October 2020

  Greater Atlanta Area
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  Senior Compositor

  Caviar

  February 2019 - March 2019
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  Senior Compositor

  Molecule VFX

  November 2018 - February 2019

  Greater Los Angeles Area
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  Compositor

  Devastudios, Inc.

  October 2018 - November 2018

  Santa Monica, CA
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  Compositor

  Ingenuity Studios

  August 2018 - September 2018

  Los Angeles

• Festival Manager

  Animation Block Party

  November 2015 - August 2018

  The 13th annual Animation Block Party is now open for submissions!
  
  The festival will run from July 28th-31st, 2016 at Rooftop Films and BAMcinematek in Brooklyn, NY.
  
  www.animationblock.com/submit

• Compositor

  Southbay Motion Picture Technologies

  August 2017 - May 2018

  Greater Los Angeles Area
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  Compositor

  Legend 3D | VR | VFX

  May 2017 - June 2017

  Greater Los Angeles Area

• Stereoscopic Compositor

  Southbay Motion Picture Technologies

  March 2017 - April 2017

  Greater Los Angeles Area

• Freelance Motion Designer

  Leo Burnett Interactive

  February 2017 - March 2017

  Greater Chicago Area
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  Advertising Manager

  CartoonBrew.com - Animation News

  September 2016 - March 2017

  Responsible for running and tracking the advertising on CartoonBrew.com, as well as generating content for various, related social media accounts.

• Freelance Motion Designer

  Leo Burnett Interactive

  May 2015 - June 2015

  Greater Chicago Area

  Motion Graphics and Animation in After Effects.

• Freelance Motion Designer

  Leo Burnett Interactive

  March 2014 - June 2014

  Motion Graphics, Animation, and VFX Compositing on projects for various clients including McDonalds, Oracle, Allstate and RE/MAX.

• Festival Director

  Animation Torrent

  October 2013 - March 2014

  Park Ridge, IL

  Founder of Animation Torrent, a festival of international animated shorts; with additional curated screenings at SIGGRAPH Vancouver 2014 and ABAI Fest 2015.
  https://www.animationtorrent.com
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  Video Editor

  JBTV Studios

  January 2014 - February 2014

  Chicago, IL

  Volunteer position; editing content for the web and television.
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  Art Instructor

  Young Rembrandts

  September 2013 - December 2013

  Greater Chicago Area

  Taught drawing for K-6 students across three schools.
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  Lead Animator

  roopstigo

  June 2012 - July 2013

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Responsible for Producing, Directing and Animating a topical new short film every month.
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  Digital Painter

  Stereo D

  January 2012 - May 2012

  Burbank, CA

  Stereoscopic painting and compositing on feature films including;
  -John Carter
  -Titanic
  -Avengers
  -Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  -Ghosts of The Abyss
  -Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
  
  As well as working on a demo team, testing footage for new potential clients.

• Director/Filmmaker/Animator

  Hot Tag Productions

  January 2009 - May 2012

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  My freelance video production alias. Sporting events, films, music videos, music performances, commercials, whatever you need shot and/or edited and/or produced on DVD, I've got you covered. I shoot with a Panasonic HPX170 and edit on Final Cut Pro.
  
  - Produced a 30 second commercial for Pro Wrestling Blitz to air during the 1/21/13 episode of WWE RAW
  - Traditionally animated Banner Ad for Bar1 Productions (bar1nyc.com)
  - "Heartbreak on Vinyl" music video, edited for American Idol alumni, Blake Lewis. Named one of the "Top 10 Most Awesome Music Videos of 2009" by Yahoo! Music
  - Writer, Producer, Director, Cinematographer and Editor for 2010 short film "...With The Lights Out"
  - Live event filming and DVD production for Pro Wrestling BLITZ from October 2010 through February 2011
  - "How To Babysit an Infant" for Howcast.com
  - "How To Play Butts Up" for Howcast.com
  - "How To Restring A Bass" for Howcast.com
  - "How To Wear the Right Makeup with Glasses" for Howcast.com
  - "Baby Goliath" submission for the 2010 Crash The Super Bowl Contest
  - Filming and multiple edits of the 2010 "Breakfast With Santa" fundraiser with the Mr. Charity Foundation and Bank of America
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  Stereo Compositor

  Legend 3D VR VFX

  March 2011 - January 2012

  San Diego, CA

  Stereographer, Producer and Artist on conversion of animated short "The Cow Who Wanted to be a Hamburger", directed by Bill Plympton.
  
  Using After Effects, Nuke, Mocha Pro and Photoshop (along with some proprietary software) to paint in stereo, produce roto's and cleanplates, and generally make scenes look proper in stereo 3D on the following films:
  - Transformers 3
  - Smurfs
  -Top Gun
  -Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance
  
  And commercials for Chase and Droid.
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  Guitarist

  Tommy Boy Entertainment

  July 2008 - December 2010

  United States

  -Touring guitarist for the band Plushgun
  -Art Director for Plushgun's full-length release "Pins & Panzers"; as well as the "Mixtapes" digital single
  -Designed promotional buttons, stickers and flyers for Plushgun, as well as a custom bass drum head and t-shirts.
  -Edited video segments for the web, including an online featurette for MTV2
  -Edited "Heartbreak on Vinyl" music video for Tommy Boy artist, Blake Lewis (named one of the Top 10 Most Awesome Music Videos of 2009 by Yahoo! Music)

• Art Assistant

  Plymptoons

  October 2005 - November 2008

  Scanning, digital cleaning and coloring & compositing.
  
  Projects include:
  -"What Is Bonnaroo?" trailer for Bonnaroo festival
  -"Heard 'Em Say" music video for Kanye West
  - Idiots and Angels - feature film
  - "Shay's Rebellon/10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America" The History Channel
  - "Santa: The Fascist Years" short film
  - "Horn Dog" short film
  - "Hot Dog" short film
  - "Mexican Standoff" music video for Parson Brown
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  Intern

  London Squared Productions

  October 2005 - October 2008

  Greater New York City Area

  • Production Assistant and extra for “Love No” music video, for The Teenagers
  • Production Assistant on “I’m In the Mood for Death” short
  • Storyboarding and Rotoscoping for “A Letter To Colleen” short
  • Animation and Digital Compositing for two “Crapograms” for mobile devices
  • Storyboarding, Set and Character Design, Animation and Digital Compositing for “Shit Chronicles 2” short
  • Storyboarding, Set Design and Animation on “Monster” pitch
  • Production Assistant on “Svetlana: Portrait of An Artist” short
  • Production Assistant on short film “3 Words”
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  Teacher's Assistant

  School of Visual Arts

  September 2006 - May 2008

  Assisted Biljana Labovic's "Intro to Animation" class, two years in a row.
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  Digital Coloring

  DMA Animation

  April 2007 - May 2007

  Greater New York City Area

  Freelance gig doing Digital Coloring in Photoshop for Scholastic's "Read and Learn Bible" DVD

• Intern

  Stretch Films, Inc

  September 2006 - February 2007

  Greater New York City Area

  -Small design tasks for promotional materials like postcards and websites
  -Storyboarding and brainstorming for a television pitch
  -Office duties such as archiving press clippings and artwork, labeling, DVD duplication, etc.

• Digital Compositor

  Signe Baumane Studio

  August 2006 - November 2006

  Greater New York City Area

  Digital Compositing in After Effects for the animated short film "Birth"; by Signe Baumane.