EDUCATION
School of Visual Arts, May 1996
-Bachelor of Fine Arts, Animation Major
WORK RELATED EXPERIENCE
JUMBO PICTURES (NYC), (Intern, 1994)
Shooting pencil tests & Running animatics
Animation clean-up & Cell Painting
Assembling character and prop model sheets
Graphic & Character design
Creating press release & series proposal / promotional material
Worked on Eureka's Window, Doug, Sports Benders
4KIDS ENTERTAINMENT INC. (NYC), (Freelance, 2006)
Storyboard Clean-up for 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'
DMA: DIGITAL MOTION ANIMATION (NYC), (Freelance, 2001)
Key drawing, inbetweening & Clean-up
INKY DINKY ANIMATION (Stony Brook, NY), (Traditional Animator / Storyboard Artist, 2001-2003)
Story boarding
Animator and & clean up artist
Key drawing, inbetweening
Layouts & backgrounds
Graphic & Character design
Creating press release & series proposal / promotional material
Website graphics / Graphic design
PATCHOGUE / MEDFORD LIBRARY, (Young Adult/Audio-Visual Page, 2001-2003)
PC/Macintosh/Internet Tech support and instruction
Patron interaction & relations
Running A/V presentations
Digital & analog A/V equipment repair
Website graphics / Graphic design
Archival search & retrieval
SMOKEY STOVER L.L.C. (Southold, NY), (Web designer and internet strategy consultant, 2002-Present)
WWW.SMOKEY-STOVER.COM , WWW.SPOOKYTHECAT.COM
PC/Macintosh/Internet Tech support
Computer instruction
Web and Graphic design
Host allocation and maintenance
Creating custom artwork for style-specific merchandise
ADAM BARNICK FILMS (Hoboken, NJ), (Web designer and internet strategy consultant, 2002-Present)
WWW.ADAMBARNICK.COM
Computer instruction
Web and Graphic design
Host allocation and maintenance
LANCO PROMOTIONS (Hauppauge, NY), (Graphic and print artist for fast-paced distributor, 2003-2004)
Creating custom artwork for silkscreen, pad print, and film printing (vector & raster art)
Adapting client’s artwork for silkscreen, pad print, and film printing (vector & raster art)
IDEAL GRAPHICS (Middle Island, NY), (Graphic and print artist for products and web design, 2004-2006)
Creating custom artwork for web, silkscreen, and embroidery
Character design, web animation, and logo creation (vector & raster art)
FILMS
‘Spring Flight’ - 3 minute, color, sound 2D animation (1994)
(Color pencil rendered, paper mounted to acetate cell)
First Place, MTV Excellence in Animation Award & Grant (1995)
Showed at SVA Student Film Exhibition (May 1994)
‘El Trago’ - 10 minute music video (1994)
Co-Produced for Akiva Films and rap artists ‘Two In A Room’
(Live action composited with animation)
Aired on MTV, Video Jukebox & Manhattan Cable
‘Items of Interest’ - 5 minute, color, sound stop-motion animation (1995)
(Aluminum wire armature, molded & pigmented latex puppetry)
Showed at SVA Student Film Exhibition (May 1995)
‘The Box’ - 8 min., color, sound, live action film & traditional animation
Currently under production
PUBLISHING
Suffolk County Library Association/Vol.24, no.2. Jun/Jul/Aug 2002
Editorial cartoon
Published June 2002
Suffolk County Library Association/Vol.25, no.2. Mar/Apr/may 2003
Editorial cartoon
Published March 2003
Disney at SVA
Article for Visual Opinion Magazine, of the School of Visual Arts - NYC.
Published April 1995
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
SOFTWARE
QuarkXPxpress, Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, PageMill, Premiere, Acrobat, HTML coding, FTP website management & design, GIF creation, Macromedia Director, Dreamweaver, Shockwave, Avid Videoshop, iMovie, Maya(limited experience), Sound editing software, Microsoft Office, Icon and GUI design(Mac and Windows), computer instruction and technical support experience.
WEBSITE DESIGN
www.paradoxtulpaarts.com / www.adambarnick.com
www.smokey-stover.com / www.spookythecat.com
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Windows (versions 3.1, – XP), Mac OS (OS 6 – OS X 10.4.10)
RELEVANT SKILLS
Storyboard artist & Graphical Storytelling
Fast character design, sketching and inking skills
Traditional & stop-motion animation
Life drawing, painting (water, acrylic & oil), sculpture
Film editing experience (film (16mm) and digital)
Sales & retail (friendly and attentive customer interaction)
Record keeping / typing (55 words per minute)
Librarian and organizational skills
INTERESTS
Animation, Art, Cooking, Science and Technology, Celtic/Irish cultural study, Surfing, Nature & wildlife, Astronomy & Cosmology, Current Events, ASIFA-East International Film Organization member (2000-Present)
All materials on the Paradox Tulpa Arts webpage are created/copywritten/protected by Juston DeCristofaro.