Cloudseed Films is the masthead for Edward Flynn, a filmmaker based in Vancouver, WA whose documentary work focuses on historical, organizational, and community based topics. His animation and motion graphics work also expands into small business promotionals.

Edward has been producing videos, audio stories, and animations since the mid 90s. He brings to each project 30 years of experience working in the advertising and graphic design industries which insures a thorough knowledge of PR and innovative narrative telling.

My business provides quick and affordable solutions to improving your brand's imagery, video marketing and motion graphics. I work with small to medium size businesses, agencies and organizations, who require a dedicated professional with the skillset to successfully create visual impact which gets noticed.

Clients (past & present): Burnett Advertising, BBDO-NY, WMSWCD, Dark Sky Films, JP Morgan Chase, Lifesize Entertainment, Oxford Communications, RAND DPC, Uniworld Group, USMC, Cambia Healthcare, JA Hand Construction, LLC

Accomplishments
Clients (past & present): WMSWCD, G3 Learning, Snap-a-lot LLC, Burnett Advertising, Pavillion Agency, BBDO-NY, JP Morgan Chase, Lifesize Entertainment, Oxford Communications, RAND Engineering & Architecture DPC, Uniworld Group, Cambia Healthcare, Donate Life NW

Accomplishments
• Completed 2 year long documentary project to create videos for the 75th anniversary of the West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District.
• Created fundraiser campaign of 6 videos & 5 audio stories for Donate Life Northwest to raise awareness for organ, eye and tissue donation.
• Work with Burnett Advertising to develop websites, VPS management, security & SEO for their clients: CI Azumano Travel (ciazumanotravel.com), ABI (abipdx.com), The Portland Bridal Show (portlandbridalshow.com) and (15 sites overall.)
• Created Video Marketing for a charity which helped them reach their fundraising goal in five days.
• Created Video Marketing campaign that helped a client acquire $200k in new work.
• Created images for an award winning USMC Veteran's campaign

Skills
• 25+ years of Advertising, Marketing, Brand building.
• 25+ years of Graphic Design experience.
• 20+ years of digital Imaging experience. Expert in Adobe Photoshop.
• 20+ years of pre-press experience. Expert in Adobe CS tools.
• 15+ Years web design and development. Expertise in HTML5, CSS3, Jquery, PHP, SEO and Analytics.
• 15+ Years of Video experience.

Brief stint during an attempt to relocate to the west coast. Hired to exclusively work on the Apple account. Highly demanding account with super tight deadlines, requiring ultra hi-res photo realistic rendering of prototype products for mutli- purpose use (print, outdoor, multimedia). Gained experience working in high security environment. Attended client presentations of work and acted as
liaison for the Retouching Department.

Hi-Res retoucher • Exclusively a Hi-Res Retoucher for the internal FCB Retouching Department, fully utilizing the complete scope of my artistic abilities and years of printing knowledge. Worked on a variety of projects, from simple color correction and touch-up to complete realistic photo rendering. Busy self-starter position, trusted to creatively and quickly complete projects from start to finish with minimum of oversight to provide quality artwork every time. Clients include: JP Morgan Chase, Gevalia, USPS, Tropicana, Merck, Nivea, Clairol, and the IRS
Worked closely with Production, Art Directors and the Digital Studio to make sure that all art requirements are met. Heavy experience creating and preparing art for magazine, newspaper, outdoor, and most other printing specs. Extensive experience troubleshooting file/mechanical printing problems. Also heavy experience creating and working with PDF formats and file prep for matchprint/CREO output.

Promoted to assist in managing workflow of digital pre-press studio, consisting of 18 production artists. Duties included scheduling and coordinating work for the following clients: AT&T, NCR, Lucent, USPS, Citibank, Tropicana, Nabisco, and Alamo. Also at this time, I began to work more extensively in 4 color Hi-Res retouching of final art for mechanicals.

Oversaw digital pre-press production of all AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and NCR print related projects: presentations, product and corporate identity, ad mechanicals, collateral materials, and retouching. Worked closely with Art directors to mechanicalize their comps. Coordinated with Print Production Dept. to insure mechanicals met proper printing specs.

Oversaw digital pre-press production of all client related work: presentations, product and corporate identity, ad mechanicals, collateral materials, and retouching. Worked closely with Art directors to mechanicalize their comps. Coordinated with Print Production Dept. to insure mechanicals met proper printing specs.

Art director in Pharma-based ad agency. Designed ads, collateral and promotionals for a variety of pharmacuetical company clients.

Majored in Editorial Illustration and Graphic Design, Related courses: Etching, Lithography and Painting