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Karin Kempf

Senior Animator

Paris, France
+33 (0)6 83 62 66 56 be.net/zimbella
I deal with animation since 1994 and I come from traditional animation training, studying also acting and mime. I’ve worked on a few feature films and several TV series and commercials.

I'm mostly interested in experimenting different kinds of styles of acting, from realistic and fine to cartoon and strongly marked.

I'm personally passioned in zoology and psychology, in poetry and a philosophy and I put everything I learn in my profession, which is my main passion since I was two years old!

The experience with 3D Layout has been a big occasion to really deal with cinematographic language and grammar and understand some rules which from school were staying theoretical.

I like people, I love team work and social dynamics and my favorite feeling is usefulness.

I’m totally into storytelling, from a beat to an entire movie.

Work Experience

Studio100 Animation

Head Of Previs & Layout

May 2016 - Present Paris, France

Pipangaï Studio

Senior Character Animator

I've been hired as character animator for the movie "Zombillenium"
March 2016 - May 2016 Le Port, Reunion

BigRock

3D Animation Teacher

SF#1 : 9men12rules - Animation Story & Grammar in 3 weeks
( https://singinflower.com)
March 2016 - March 2016 Treviso, Italy

Isart Digital

3D Animation Instructor

January 2016 - Present Paris, France

ESRA

3D Animation Instructor

- 9 Old Men - 12 animation principles - 12 exercises (36 hours)
- Two legged walk cycle (6 hours)
- Four legged walk cycle (6 hours)
- Facial animation basis: eye darts, blinks, eyebrows, lip synch + "snippet" exercise (6 + 6 hours)
October 2015 - March 2016 Paris, France

The Third Floor

Previs Artist, Shot Maker

I've been charged as Shot Maker on the Marvel movie "Dr Strange"
November 2015 - December 2015 London, United Kingdom

Fortiche

Senior Previs Artist and Animator

I've worked on several different project like a tv educational movie about the Gauls and a cinematic for a video game.
October 2014 - May 2015 France

The Animation Workshop

Layout Instructor

This course is conceived to provide the students with the knowledge about layout process in production, in particular what it takes to go from storyboard to finished layout, blending 2D and 3D techniques: a crossover of cinematography reference for live action and 2D/3D animation theory, learning how to use a virtual 2D or 3D camera to enhance the storytelling, starting from how it works in live action, to keep it credible and readable.
April 2014 - April 2014 Denmark

Gobelins

Animation Instructor

CRFA 2 - 3D Body Acting Workshop, 49 hours
October 2015 - Paris, France

Gobelins

Animation Instructor

I've been charged as Instructor for two workshops:
Workshop #1: four legged walk cycle in 3D, how to proceed
Workshop #2: 5 seconds - one character close-up acting and lip synch on a dialog line
September 2014 - November 2014 France

Illumination Mac Guff

Previs and Layout Artist

I've been hired for the previsualisation and layout on "Minions" movie, directed by Pyer Coffin and Kyle Balda
August 2013 - May 2014 France

Trixter Films GmbH

Senior Previs Artist and Animator

I'm working in Munich for Trixter Films, I'm now animating a sequence for "Iron Man 3" and then I'll be on a 3D feature film named "The 7th Dwarf" until the next Summer, as Previs Artist until the end of the year and then as Animator.
August 2012 - Munich, Germany

Illumination Mac Guff

Senior Previs Artist and Animator

I've worked on "The Lorax" 3D Movie Marketing project, both as Previs Artist and Animator with the co-director Kyle Balda as direct reference. I've been charged of the previs work for the short movie "Serenade", included in the DVD special features for "The Lorax" 3D feature film, even if my name is not in the credits, due to a production error ;(
But you can see my name in the Animation crew, where I've been integrated after the Previs work.
October 2011 - December 2011 Paris, France

Duran Duboi

Lead Animator

April 2011 - December 2011 Paris, France

Illumination Mac Guff

Animator

September 2009 - May 2010 France

Illumination Mac Guff

Layout Artist

Universal feature film
Layout Supervisor: Kyle Balda
October 2008 - August 2009 Paris, France

Education

IAnimate

Advanced Animation Workshop 4: Close-up Acting and Lip Sync

September 2014 - February 2015 California, United States

Istituto Statale D'Arte Di Urbino

Traditional Animation Operator

September 1992 - July 1996 Urbino, Italy

John Truby Masterclass

The Anatomy Of Story - Screenwriting Masterclass

April 2014 - April 2014 France

John Truby Masterclass

Story Families - Story Genres Masterclass

April 2014 - April 2014 France

Ecole Nationale Superieure Du Cinema Louis Lumiere

Master - Formation en realisation de long metrage

An interesting workshop between professional about all the matters concerning writing and directing a movie when we are the author and the director as well.
I've been selected between several hundreds of people, the class was of 7 elements and we were surrounded of professionals like a DoP, a set designer, a script, an executive producer, several professional actors, an assistant director...
We did our exercises in a real set with professional film equipment, in a real film set at the Cite du Cinema of Europacorp (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cit%C3%A9_du_cin%C3%A9ma)
October 2012 - November 2012 France

Ecole De Mime Corporel Dramatique De Etienne Decroux

Workshop

I've attended an intensive workshop about mime and body expression with Robert Bennet as teacher
October 2007 - September 2007 France

Les Gobelins - Ecole De L'Image

Summer School Workshop

July 2007 - July 2007 Paris, France

Languages

English (Fluent),
French (Fluent),
Italian (Native),

Skills

3ds Max, Autodesk Maya, Houdini, Newtek Lightwave, Softimage XSI,