Adriana Vargas Blake

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April 2010 – Present: Chocolate Liberation Front – Toronto, Ontario
Storyboard and Flash artist
  • Drew and composed storyboards for ten online games for the upcoming interactive website of the Wild Kratts show.
  • Built character assets from scratch in Flash for website and game animation.

January 2008—April 2010: Self-employed – Milton, Ontario
Freelance Artist

  • Provide illustrations for personal use to various clients according to their requests.
  • Designed business logos.
  • Provided colour design for comic pages for Katie Shanahan’s upcoming “Flight, Volume 7” anthology contribution.

April 2006—July 2008:  Light Bug Productions, LLC – Houston, TX
Director/Artist/Supervising Animator

  • Provided direction, story adaptation to screen, character designs, storyboards, key animation, inking and compositing for a 6-minute classically animated children’s vignette, “The Firefly and the Stars.” (2nd place winner of the KidsFirst! Best Award for 2009, and an Official Selection for the 2010 Wild and Scenic Film Festival).

April 2006—July 2008:  Stone Soup Traditional Cel Animation
Freelance Artist/Classical Animator

  • Provided character animation, storyboards, designs, layouts, creative solutions and original drawings of characters or backgrounds, according to each client’s needs.  Worked on website animation and commercials that were broadcasted locally in Houston, TX.

Education

September 2002 – April 2005:  Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning – Oakville, ON, Canada
3-year Post-Secondary Diploma Degree in Classical Animation.

  • January – April 2003:  Worked as animation assistant for 3rd year students.
  • April 2003:  Nominated for the John M. McNeill Memorial Award for Outstanding First Year Animation Students.

August 1999 – December 2001:  Montgomery College – Conroe, TX
Associate’s Degree in Liberal Arts (with Honors and scholarship)

  • Fall 2001: Acted as advisor for college’s literary and arts ‘zine.
  • August 2000 – May 2001: Worked as student editor for college’s literary and arts ‘zine (2001 edition).
  • Spring 2000:  Participated as cast member in college’s musical.
  • Member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society.

Computer Skills: Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, and After Effects; Digicel Flipbook (pencil-testing). Increasing knowledge of Flash, and moderate knowledge of Quark Xpress, Adobe Illustrator, Audition and Dreamweaver.  PC and Macintosh.

Languages: English and Spanish.

References: Available upon request.