Daniel Parrish, Animator and Cartoonist
Email: tooner89@icloud.com
Portfolio: https://sites.google.com/site/danieljparrish/
Highlight of Qualifications
● Graduate of the Academy of Art, studying both 2D and 3D animation.
● Developed animated shorts using stop-motion, 2D, and 3D.
● Experienced with drawing in both traditional and digital style, and created copyrighted cast of characters for own cartoons.
● Experienced with Adobe programs such as Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, and editing video and SFX in After Effects and Premiere. Also experienced with Autodesk Maya.
● Proficient on PC Windows 7, 8, 10, and Mac OS X.
● Adaptable, reliable, detail-oriented, and a fast learner.
Education
● Academy of Art University, San Francisco CA, 2007-2013
BFA in Animation and visual effects (VFX), specializing in character animation. Classes taken included 2-D character animation, Adobe Flash animation, storyboarding, figure drawing, anatomy, animal drawing, and character design.
● Granada High School, Livermore CA, 2007
HS diploma, Bank of America Achievement Award in Fine Arts and honor student
Art Related Experience
● Art vendor at conventions, 2014-Present
Maintained my own dealer table at fan conventions. I did business with con-goers face to face, drawing sketches or badge commissions for people, selling prints of my artwork, and selling buttons with my characters on them.
● Skeptic Magazine, 2014
Volunteer work drawing cartoon illustrations that accompany magazine articles. My drawings appeared in the Vol. 19 No. 2, 2014 and the Vol. 19 No. 3, 2014 issues.
● Soup2Nuts Studios, 2013
Adobe Flash character animator on Word Girl. Received storyboards for scenes in upcoming episodes and animated digital puppets of the characters.
● Oxinfree Studios, 2013
Volunteer work performing several duties, such as helping with Flash puppet building, background building, and animating the studio logo for a web series titled Azadae.
● Freelance Artist and sculptor, 2010-Present
Commissioned via online websites to draw other people’s own cartoon characters, or portraits of family members. I have also sculpted and built puppets with friends for our own projects.