Felipe Di Poi

Freelancer

New York, NY, USA
My background is in animation and comedy writing.

Work Experience

Vayner Media

Freelance designer

Designed and animated materials for a client brand's Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn accounts, as part of a 6 person team.
July 2018 - August 2018 New York, New York, United States

Cashman-Katz

Freelance Vis Dev, Character Designer, Animator

Designed characters and animated 4 different spots, for web and television, for Iron Mountain paper company.
March 2018 - July 2018 New York, New York, United States

FX

Assistant director, storyboard artist, editor, animator

Under the direction of director Joseph Bennett, developed storyboards and directed sections of a short film used in a presentation to the FX Network.
January 2018 - March 2018 New York, New York, United States

Downtown Records

Freelance Animator

Animated a 4-minute music video for Downtown Records' artist Brett Dennen.
2-week turnaround time.
Worked on Adobe Animate, After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere, and Audition.
December 2017 - January 2018 New York, New York, United States

Vice Media

Freelance Animator

Animator for short-form animation team.
September 2017 - December 2017 New York, New York, United States

FX

Storyboard assistant

Assisted artist Joseph Bennett in a commissioned project for FX, by punching up storyboards with acting and extra shots.
June 2017 - June 2017 United States

Hood LLC

Character Designer, Backgrounds, Animator

As a freelancer, designed all of the characters in a Heluva Good dip campaign, rendered backgrounds, and animated main and background characters.
June 2016 - August 2016 United States

Drawn & Quarterly

Production Intern

Scanning, cleaning up, and color-correcting artwork, setting pages in InDesign, making a font out of artist hand-writing
June 2014 - August 2014 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Education

Brown University

BA in Comparative LIterature

The Brown / Rhode Island School of Design Dual Degree program is a 5-year program where graduates receive a degree from each institution.
September 2012 - May 2017 Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Rhode Island School Of Design (RISD)

BFA. film/ animation/ video

September 2012 - May 2017 Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Languages

Spanish (Native),
English (Native),
French (Advanced),

Awards

Vimeo

Staff Pick Award

2016

Staff Pick Award

2017

Disposable Film Festival

Jury Prize for Animation

2017

Animation Block Party

Official selection, and One-Minute Film Award Winner

2018

Ottawa International Animation Festival

Official Selection of the OIAF International Panorama

2018

Skills

Adobe Animate, Adobe Premiere, Animation, Character Design, Storyboarding, Writing,