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Seth Hippen7436 Lewis St. Eagle Mountain, UT 84005 (801) 789-7097 seth.hippen@gmail.com
EXPERIENCE
CafeFX (October 2009 – January 2010) Character Animator I animated Bayard the dog, the Red Knights, and the Hatter’s hat in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.
Flip Animation Studios (June 2009 – September 2009) CG Generalist I created animation for a greeting card website that included four characters. I did concept, modeling, rigging, animation, textures, lighting, effects, and rendering.
Lumenas Animation Studios (February 2009 – April 2009) Character Animator I animated pre-production animation tests for The Legend of Santa Claus.
Avalanche Software (Disney Interactive) (June 2007 –January 2009) Senior Artist I animated for Bolt and Hannah Montana World Tour video games, along with other undisclosed projects. I also lead the cinematics teams for Bolt with animation direction.
Sony Pictures Imageworks (February 2005 – May 2007) (March 2004 – August 2004) Senior Character Animator I animated on Surf’s Up, Monster House, The Polar Express and Beowulf.
Waterford(October 2004 – February 2005) (April 2001-February 2004) Character Designer/ Animation Artist I did many things: character animation, character design, storyboards, modeling, lighting, texturing, rigging, and compositing. I also taught training classes in animation principles and character design.
Toonstruck –in association with Reel FX (September 2004 – December 2004) Digital Character Animator I created character and creature animation for the feature film Action Man. Lots of fun!
Film Roman (June-August 2000) Character Layout Artist (Internship) I “cut my teeth” doing character layout work on The Simpsons. This was through the internship program with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Ricks Brothers Animation (May-September 1999) Concept Artist Character design, storyboard, and children’s book illustration.
EDUCATION
BrighamYoungUniversity(1999-2002) BFA Degree: Industrial Design (Animation emphasis) Taught training sessions for general drawing skills, and Maya software. Two projects shown at 'Final Cut' film festival; one included in 'The Best of Final Cut'.
Earned four academic scholarships.
RicksCollege(1997-1999) Major: Illustration Earned academic and talent scholarships.
SOFTWARE
Maya (9 years), Softimage XSI (< 1 year), PhotoShop (9 years), After Effects (4 years), Painter (1 year).
REFERENCES
Available upon request.
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