Tessa El Miligi

Tessa El Miligi

Mid-level Animator / 8 yrs

London, United Kingdom

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I’m a Dutch woman living and working in the United Kingdom. With London being mainly VFX focused I’ve mainly been working as a visual effects animator for a little over 3 years, though my interest is in stylized work, and I welcome all areas of 3D animation.
Work History
  • Animator

    Industrial Light & Magic

    February 2024 - August 2024
    London, United Kingdom
  • Animator

    Industrial Light & Magic

    July 2021 - May 2023
    London, England, United Kingdom
  • Character Animator

    RealTime

    March 2021 - May 2021
    Bournemouth, United Kingdom
  • Character Animator

    RealTime

    December 2020 - May 2021
    Westby, England, United Kingdom
  • Animator

    Outpost VFX

    March 2019 - July 2020
    Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    - Creature Animator on an upcoming feature film
    - Creature Animator on Greed
    - Character Animator on Catherine The Great
    - Character Animator on Black Mirror (Lead credit)
    - Creature Animator on HBO's Watchmen

  • Animator

    Outpost VFX

    November 2018 - July 2020
    Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    - Creature Animator on News of the World
    - Creature Animator on Greed
    - Character Animator on Catherine The Great
    - Character Animator on Black Mirror
    - Creature Animator on HBO's Watchmen

  • Previs Animator

    Proof Inc

    July 2018 - October 2018
    London, United Kingdom

    Previs Animation on Hobbs & Shaw

  • Character Animator

    Axis Animation

    September 2017 - December 2017
    London, United Kingdom

    Character animation on Syfy's Happy!

  • Postvis Animator

    Proof Inc

    August 2017 - September 2017
    London, United Kingdom

    Postviz animation on Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

  • 3d junior animator

    RealtimeUK

    April 2017 - July 2017
    Preston, United Kingdom

    Creature Animation on Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.

  • 3d junior animator

    Colorbleed

    April 2016 - July 2016
    Utrecht Area, Netherlands

    Crowd animation on an undisclosed short film.

  • 3d junior animator

    Blue Zoo

    August 2015 - March 2016
    London, United Kingdom

    Junior Animator on Tree Fu Tom. My job was to animate my own shots in addition to doing animation cleanup on other shots.

    Tree Fu Tom is an interactive animated comedy, action, fantasy-adventure series for 3-6 years olds set in an enchanted world where movement creates magic!

  • Prop Rigger

    Animation Mentor

    March 2015 - May 2015
    Netherlands
  • Generalist

    GRID-vfx

    June 2013 - December 2014
    Gent Area, Belgium

    Worked on a variety of projects including:

    - Asterix: The Mansion of the Gods (Animation / Animation Cleanup / Cloth Cleanup)
    - Michiel de Ruyter (Layout / Animation)
    - Little Luke & Lucy (Layout)
    - Knack (PS4) (Generalist)

  • Intern

    GRID-vfx

    February 2012 - June 2012

    3D Artist on various projects inluding:
    -What's The Big Idea (Rigging / Shading)
    -Metal Hurlant Chronicles
    -K3 Bengeltjes
    -Hotel 13

Education
  • Animation Fundamentals

    Animation Mentor

    January 2013 - January 2014
  • Bachelor of Engineering, Game Architecture and Design

    NHTV University of Applied Sciences Breda

    September 2009 - July 2013
  • United States High School Diploma

    East Aurora High School

    2006 - 2007
  • Dutch High School Diploma in HAVO

    Mendel College

    2001 - 2006