Lauren Bergholm
email: lbergholm@thecharacterbox.com
EDUCATION:
2006 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence , RI
Basic Maya: Modeling for 3D Design & Animation
2002 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Bachelor of Fine Arts Film Animation Video
2001 Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ
Cultural Anthropology Course
EXPERIENCE:
2006 - 2007 Animation Collective, New York, NY
Storyboard Artist. Using Flash MX,
worked as a storyboard artist and animator on the first and second season of Kappa Mikey, now airing on the Nicktoons Network. Ability to work quickly and efficiently on tight deadlines both individually and in team situations.
2003 - 2007 Soup 2 Nuts, Watertown, MA
Freelance Artist. Using Flash MX, worked for three years as a character designer, storyboard artist and animator. Worked on numerous projects for the Cartoon Network, BET, Oxygen, FOX, PBS, NBC, and Scholastic, including the Emmy Nominated "Time Warp Trio". Collaborated effectively with Art Directors, fellow Animators, Storyboard Artists, and character designers. Ability to work quickly, efficiently and meet deadlines on multiple simultaneous projects.
2003 Anthony Janello Photography Studio, Hope, RI
Web Designer. Designed and coded a website for Professor Anthony Janello of the Rhode Island School of Design, to showcase his photographic works ( www.sacreddarkness.com ).
2002-2003 O'Plenty Animation Studio, Pt. Pleasant, NJ
Animator. Using traditional hand-drawn animation techniques, worked as a storyboard artist, lead animator, character designer, layout artist, concept artist, and clean up artist on various projects. Ability to create on scenes both individually and in group situations.
1998-1999 O'Plenty Animation Studio, Pt. Pleasant, NJ
Intern. Worked as a lead animator, assistant animator, clean up artist, ink and paint artist.
PROJECTS:
Animation Collective , New York, NY
2006-2007 ‘Kappa Mikey '
Storyboard Artist, and Animator. Worked on the first and second season of Kappa Mikey, now airing on the Nicktoons Network.
Soup 2 Nuts, Watertown, MA
2006-2007 ‘Word Girl '
Storyboard Artist, and Animator. Worked on the twenty episodes of two minute shorts, and on ten one minute interstitials now airing on PBS.
2004-2005 ‘Time Warp Trio '
Storyboard Artist, and Animator. Worked on the first and second season of the Emmy nominated children's show, now airing on PBS, the NBC Discovery Kids block, and the Discovery Kids Channel.
2004 ‘ Show & Tell: Season Two'
‘Pick Me '
‘ Pickle Elf'
‘ Protesters'
Storyboard Artist, Animator, Character Designer. Chosen to work closely with art director to design the characters and the over all look for the twelve ‘Show & Tell' interstitials which aired on the Cartoon Network and as advertisements in select movie theater companies. Also worked as the sole developer on 3 episodes.
2004 ‘ Ella Enchanted: The Switch'
Character Designer, Storyboard Artist, Animator. Chosen to work closely with art director to design the characters and the over all look for the 30 second demo for Miramax's animated sequel to Ella Enchanted.
2003 Show & Tell: Season One
‘Anthony the Magnificent '
‘ Lily's Note'
Character Designer, Storyboard Artist, Animator. Worked closely with art director to design the characters and the over all look for the seven ‘Show & Tell' interstitials to air on the Cartoon Network. Also worked as the sole developer for two episodes.
2003 ‘Tom Snyder FOX Pilot'
Character Designer. Chosen to work closely with the Art Director and Creator to develop character designs for the entire cast.
2003 ‘Home Movies'
Storyboard Artist and Animator. Worked on the fourth season for the Cartoon Network.
2003 ‘Hey Monie!'
Animator. Contributed to the third season for the BET and the Oxygen Network.
2003 ‘Bombaloo'
Animator, Clean up Animator. Worked closely with the Art Director, and Creator to adapt the children's book “Bombaloo” to animation for Scholastic.
O'Plenty Animation, Pt. Pleasant, NJ
2001-2003 TV Pilot, ‘Dawn Patrol'
Storyboard Artist, Lead Animator, Layout Artist, and Character Designer. Created storyboards and layouts for multiple scenes. Served as Lead Animator for the ‘Kid Kelp' character and many others. Assisted with the designs of existing characters and designed new characters for the series. Also ensured all scenes where on model.
2001 Scholastic CD-Rom, ‘Clifford The Big Red Dog Learning Activities
Ink and Paint. Used Adobe Photoshop to digitally color hand drawn animation art that was scanned into the computer.
2000 ‘Paul Bowles Documentary'
Animation, Clean up, Animation, and Character Design. Ensured all scenes where on model, and produced concept work.
1999 ‘Daniel the Day Dreaming Mouse'
Ink and Paint. Painted cells by hand.
1998 Scholastic ‘One Zillion Valentines'
Clean up Animation, Ink and Paint. Worked closely with Art Director and Animators to clean up multiple scenes. Painted cells by hand.
SKILLS:
Animation: Macromedia Flash MX, Macromedia Flash 5, Very comfortable using a Wacom Tablet, Crater Animation, Adobe After Effects 5.0, Maya 7.0, Adobe Premiere, Sound Forge 5.0, Pencil Test Deck, Steinback editing, Junior Oxberry.
Computer: Comfortable with both Mac and PC platforms, Dreamweaver MX, Adobe Go Live!, Adobe Photoshop, HTML, Word.
Production: In both studios became the “go to” person for the most difficult assignments and brought them to completion on time and high quality.
SHOWS:
2002 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
Film Animation Video Senior Show, ‘ The Good, the Bad, and the Hungry'
2001 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
Film Animation Video Junior Show, ‘ B.Y.O.B' |