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Michael Gilbert

Design Division | Volunteer Media

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
604 442 3992 be.net/mgilbert
Mike Gilbert is a Vancouver based Illustrator for hire. Currently he has 15 years working as a designer for commercialized animation and various Publications as an Illustrator.

Proficient in Adobe CC ( Photoshop, Animate, Illustrator, Premier, After Effects, Audition)

Specialties:

ANIMATION
•Lead design
•story boarding
•prop design
•character design
•Background design
•Scene Setup
•posing in flash

GRAPHIC DESIGN
•Prepress printing
•CD Design / Layout
•illustration
•painting
•posing in flash
•Prepress printing
•HTML

Work Experience

Global Mechanic

BG Layout Supervisor / Full time Generalist

PROJECT - Birdgirl Season 2 (In Production, Adult Swim)

• Creation of conceptual layouts / production keys
• Overseeing layout and providing redline revisions
• providing rough, clean and finished layouts for the purpose of animation.

Tools:
Adobe Photoshop CC
September 2021 - Present Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bardel Entertainment

Layout Artist

PROJECT - Carol (In Production, Netflix)

• Working with layouts and preparing files for Harmony import.
• Assistance with Character building in Harmony.

PROJECT - Rick and Morty (Season 5, Adult Swim)

• Taking client / internal layouts and consolidating it to the necessary format for Harmony import.
• Revising / designing elements to be used for animation.
• Occasional Character / Prop design
• Importing flattened layouts into Harmony

Tools:
Adobe Photoshop CC
Adobe Bridge CC
Toon Boom Harmony
August 2020 - September 2021 British Columbia, Canada

East Side Games

Freelance Character Artist

Freelance Character Artist on title "Trailer Park Boys: Greasy Money"
May 2020 - May 2020 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Titmouse Animation

Scene Setup Artist

Scene Setup Artist on production "Star Trek: Lower Decks" (CBS)
November 2019 - April 2020 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

East Side Games

Layout Artist

Layout artist on the mobile title "It's Always Sunny: The Gang Goes Mobile"
August 2018 - December 2019 British Columbia, Canada

Titmouse Animation

Scene Setup Artist

Scene Setup Artist on "Cleopatra In Space" (Dreamworks)
April 2018 - July 2019 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

DHX Media

Posing Artist

October 2017 - February 2018 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Smart City Media

Video Editor

Video editor using Premiere Pro and After Effects CC. In this brief contract I would arrange raw footage in Premiere Pro, color treat and stabilize, then composite a final product. Other tasks might include Animating paths for text and linework.
September 2017 - October 2017 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Global Mechanic

Layout Artist

Key layout artist for "The New Ruff Ruffman Show! (WGBH & PBS Kids Production Company). Provided completed Background art based on Storyboards / Animatics using Adobe Animate CC.
July 2016 - December 2016 British Columbia, Canada

Global Mechanic

Layout Designer

Key layout artist for "Plum Landing Season 3" (WGBH & PBS Kids Production Company). Provided completed Background art based on Storyboards / Animatics using Adobe Animate CC.
March 2016 - July 2016 British Columbia, Canada

Volunteer Media

Label Owner / Design division

June 2010 - Present Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Global Mechanic

Designer

Worked as a layout artist on a web series for PBS Kids
May 2013 - September 2013 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Strut Studios

Art Director

Create graphics packages and occasional animated graphics for video. Additionally work as an extra stage hand on set.
February 2013 - May 2013 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Made In Print

Graphic Designer / Sales Rep

January 2012 - March 2013 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Polyester Studio

Freelance Design

Assistance in conceptual design for Hewlett Packard's Snapfish app
January 2013 - March 2013 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vivid Greetings

Artistic Director

Handled creation of corporate greetings in both electronic / physical form.
July 2012 - February 2013 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Atomic Cartoons

Developmental artist

Created the premise for the development of 'Lionheart', a children's animated comedy-adventure series for ages 6-10. Currently in development under Volunteer Media.
December 2010 - May 2012 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Atomic Cartoons

Background Design

Worked on the creation of layouts, cleanup and color
September 2011 - November 2011 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Atomic Cartoons

Freelance Developing artist

Handled assembly of show pitch books for:
• Pirate Express
• Lionheart
September 2011 - October 2011 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Atomic Cartoons

Freelance Designer

Freelance Designer for "Spyburbia"
July 2011 - August 2011 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Sweetbreads Creative Collective

Designer

I had been contracted as a designer for Sweetbreads for various projects, but most notably for the artist DaVinci's album design. During this time I had created 2 pieces.
June 2007 - July 2011 San Francisco, California, United States

Atomic Cartoons

Freelance Artist

Worked on occasional freelance work for Atomic Cartoons for Character Design and BG Layout.
January 2011 - February 2011 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Studio B Productions

Cleanup Artist

Cleanup artist on Hasbro's "My Little Pony" - Season one
March 2010 - June 2010 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Studio B Productions

Character Artist

Character Designer on Hasbro's "My Little Pony" - Season one
September 2009 - March 2010 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

TransLink

Designer

Was recruited to Illustrate a cover Illustration for "Buzzer" Magazine found on Translink Busses and Trains.
September 2009 - October 2009 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Cartoon Funland

Storyboard Artist

Designed storyboard elements and some layout for the pilot "Monstroville"
July 2009 - October 2009 Los Angeles, California, United States

Threshold Recordings LLC

Album Layout Artist

Designed the artwork for the Masala '84 Single "Say Hey" For Kutmasta Kurt and 1Shanti under Threshold records.
April 2009 - April 2009 Santa Monica, California, United States

Hasbro

Freelance Design

Freelance Illustration / Character re-branding artist for the My Little Pony Franchise.
February 2009 - March 2009 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

ION Magazine

Illustration

Did some freelance Illustrations for ION Magazine.
October 2008 - October 2008 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Threshold Recordings LLC

Album Artist

Designed album "Dr. Dooom 2" for Threshold recordings.
August 2008 - September 2008 Santa Monica, California, United States

Joel Trussell

Background Painter

Handled all background paintings for Jakob Dylan's " Evil is alive and well" for Starbucks / Capitol records. Directed under Joel Trussell.
May 2008 - June 2008 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Abort Magazine

Illustrator

Designed Various covers for the magazine.
January 2007 - April 2008 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Studio B Productions

Junior / Lead Artist

Junior/ Lead artist on "George of the Jungle"
January 2007 - July 2007 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Slap Happy Cartoons

Concept Artist

Conceptual designer for Show concept "Hippotatopotamus"
March 2007 - March 2007 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Studio B Productions

Flash Posing artist / Builder

Flash posing artist on "Ricky Sprockets"
October 2006 - January 2007 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Elliott Animation

Posing artist

Tightened up Key Poses for Jetix's "Yin Yang Yo!"
August 2006 - October 2006 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Fatkat Animation

Designer

Lead Design for several projects
December 2005 - June 2006 Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada

Mercury Filmworks

Digital Ink and Paint department

Digital Ink and Painter for "Class of the Titans" (Studio B) and
"Curious George" ( Universal )
March 2005 - December 2005 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Education

Vancouver Film School

3D diploma (MAYA modelling software)

During this time I was taught the overall fundamentals of 3D animation using MAYA software.
June 2004 - October 2004 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver Film School

2D animation

During this extensive 1 year course I was taught every aspect of classical animation (design, story boarding, cleanup, model sheets, doping / slugging, animation, etc).
October 2002 - October 2003 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Painting diploma

I had learned the basic fundamentals of acrylic painting at Kwantlen and had created various pieces based on tutorials.
September 2001 - March 2002 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Skills

Character Design, Layout, Print, Vector, Adobe CS6, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Cleanup, Color Theory, Posing, Sketchbook Pro, Traditional Design, USAnimation,

Referrals

Rob Davies | Atomic Cartoons | Development
rob@atomiccartoons.com

Joel Trussell | joeltrussell.com | Independant Film Director
joeltrussell@hotmail.com

Kurt Matlin | Threshold Recordings | CEO
threshrecs@gmail.com

Rob Martin | Sweetbreads Creative Collective | Designer
rob@majorminorsf.com