Dana Schechter | Résumé 2010
Brooklyn, NY
danadiamond@earthlink.net | www.danaschechter.com | 646 784 8338
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Occupation, 1997 to Present:
Freelance Animation, Motion Graphics, Design and Compositing for TV, Film, Video.
Senior Animator/Designer; 12 years experience using Adobe After Effects and related software.
Specific interest in projects with design, musical and/or art-related content.
Selected Production Houses (NYC):
Guerilla FX, Psyop, Curious Pictures, Edgeworx, Valins and Co, My Active Driveway, Special Branch, Q Division,
Mammoth Advertising, Version 2, Cosmo Street, the Station, Funny Garbage/Red Hot, Radical Media, Vidiots
Partial Client List:
ABC, MTV, PBS, U2, Comedy Central, Showtime, Sundance Channel, Saturday Night Live, Oxygen,
The Learning Channel, WGN Chicago, Lehigh University, Rose Planetarium/Natural History Museum NYC
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Selected Recent Freelance Work:
4/2010: Neal St Studios, London. "U2 360 Tour"
Animation, Design, Compositing. Back at it again...Creating animated content for U2's
7-story seamless video screen, for their upcoming Spring 2010 World tour
04/2010: 1st Ave Machine, NYC "Runners"
Animation, Compositing. Spot for HP Printers
04/2010: UVPhactory, NYC "Nexus One"
Animation, Compositing. Pitch/spot for the new Google Phone
03/2010: Whizz Kid Entertainment, London. "U2 360 Live at the Rose Bowl DVD"
Animation, Design. Created Main Titiles and Animated Opening, Intermission and Ending sequences
for the "U2 Live at the Rose Bowl DVD" (featuring my previous animation work from their Fall '09 tour)
Directed by Tom Kreuger. Release Fall 2010.
12/2009: Edgeworx, NYC. Documentary "Life 2.0"
Animation, Design, Compositing. Title sequence for upcoming Documentary about Second Life gamers; directed by
Jason Spingarn-Koff. Film premieres at Sundance Festival 2010.
10/2009: Neal St Studios, London. "U2 360 Tour"
Animation, Design. Created animated graphic content for rock group U2's 7-story seamless video screen on their recent
"360 Tour". Animations were integrated with real-time concert footage in national arenas, and can be seen in the band's live/archived
YouTube stream from LA's Rose bowl concert (10/25/09) to a sold out audience of 96,000 fans.
10/2009: Edgeworx, NYC. HBO "Terror In Mumbai"
Animation, Design, Compositing. Opening and Closing graphic sequences for upcoming HBO special.
09/2009: Q Division, NYC. Nike "Golf"
Compositing. Promotional Videos.
08/2009: Mammoth Advertising, NYC. History Channel Spot
Animation, Design, Illustration, Storyboarding. Animated pitch for the History Channel.
04/2009 - 06/2009: Guerilla FX, NYC. "Earth 2100"
Animation, Design, Compositing, Illustration. "Earth 2100" is a one-hour Prime-Time animated Graphic Novel for ABC TV.
Show aired nationally on June 02, 2009.
04/2009: Special Branch, NYC. "Ziploc Evolve"
3D compositing, Color Correction, Animation. TV commercial.
04/2009: Quinnipiac University School of Communications, CT. Guest Lecturer
Broadcast Media Studies department. Lectured Undergrad students about animation,
design, concepts and planning, job markets, etc.
04/2009: When In Doubt Productions, New Haven CT. "The Power of Giving: Stories of Volunteerism"
Documentary Film Titles; for Connecticut Public Television. Concept and development, Design, Animation.
Show airs 06/09.
03/2009: Psyop, NYC. "UPS Gladiator"
TV commercial; Compositing of 3D character, background and particle renders. "Gladiator" was
the first of a series
of four TV commercials first airing March 2009.
02/2009: Guerilla FX, NYC. "Voices Unbound"
Lead designer/animator for documentary feature film. Original art & design of boards through to completed animation
for graphic sequences, titles, and effect sequences. Additional design uses original assets, photographs and
archival footage.
01/2009: Psyop, NYC. "Fanta 1009"
International TV campaign. Design and animation. Worked with Psyop art directors to develop youth-culture based
graphic concept development to create animation pitch. Graphics used client-supplied commercial artwork.
01/2009: Lehigh University/LUAG Gallery, PA. "Madre Selva"
Lead designer, animator, editor, sound editor for a 12-foot high gallery video installation, created in conjunction with
director Juan Sanchez. Concept and development of the primary visual style; integrated the director's original
artwork with HD footage. Currently on view at Lehigh through June 2009.
12/2008: Hidden Driver, NYC. "Commons"
Co-designed, illustrated and animated, an online book-promo piece. Created all original artwork and visual concepts
to illustrate book copy. Illustrations were done with pen and ink, combined with digital compositing and animation.
08/2008: Lancashire and Somerset Publishing, UK. “A Lonely War”
Created original illustrations for the poetry book by NY writer Pete Simonelli. Illustrations were made with pen and ink,
charcoal and other fine-art mediums to create a visual counterpart to the book's poems and stories.
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Hardware / Software:
Mac/PC. Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver; Final Cut Pro, Digidesign Pro Tools,
Microsoft Office, Quicktime Pro
Related Skills:
Painting, Illustration, Photography; Stop-Motion Animation; Print Design + Layout; Music Composition + Film Scoring,
Recording, Performance, Sound Editing
Projects:
Commercials, Music Videos, Feature/Documentary Films, Titles/End Credits, Network branding, Museum Installations,
Private Tutoring, Web Animations, Industrials
Partial Company List (NYC):
Guerilla FX, Psyop, Curious Pictures, Edgeworx, Valins and Co, My Active Driveway, Special Branch, Version 2,
Cosmo Street, the Station, Funny Garbage/Red Hot, Radical Media, Vidiots
Animation Work created for:
MTV, PBS, Comedy Central, Showtime, Sundance Channel, Saturday Night Live, Oxygen, The Learning Channel, WGN Chicago,
Lehigh University, Rose Planetarium/Natural History Museum NYC
Original Illustration/Print work for:
Yep Roc Records, Cooking Vinyl Records, Evangeline Records, Décor Records, Mojo Magazine UK, Lancashire and Somerset Publishing UK
Education:
CCSF, San Francisco, CA
1991 - 1994: Studies in Computer Graphics, Design, Fine Arts, and Music
1992 - 1994: Assistant Studio Instructor, Printmaking/Oil Painting Dept.
References available upon request.
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