John P. Sousa
pootnannies@hotmail.com

GOALS

As an animator my goals are to always bring quality and speed to my work, to know which sacrifices and which risks to take. I would like to evolve animation to more than just constant flailing and flashy colors. Animation should show personality and other human emotions that really bring it to life. It should be believable and entertaining at the same time. My ultimate goal as an animator is to develop my own studio that provides these qualities the most efficient way possible to my clients.

SKILLS

· Traditional animation skills

· Flash animation

· Anime style animation and character design

· Comic book style animation and character design

· 3D animation, modeling, and rigging

· Backgrounds made from traditional means or computer

· Shading on all animation from anime style, to soft or bounced lighting

SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE


· Macromedia Flash 8

· Alias Maya 6.5

· Adobe After Effects 6.5

· Adobe Photoshop

· Adobe Illustrator

· Adobe Premiere

WORK EXPERIENCE


Animator for Current TV’s, “SuperNews”: www.current.tv/supernews

Key and in-between animator on the show Jim Breuer’s Jefferson Avenue Vol. 1
at Croog Studios in New York

Animator, Character designer, storyboards, and assistant director for an NBC project entitled, “Delivery Boy”.

Designed logo for Stephen Baldwin’s “Loco Joe Cappuccino” charity drink box.


EDUCATION

Internship at Croog Studios for 5 months

Life drawing- two years

Still life- one semester

Computer Art- one semester

Oil painting- one semester

Water Color- one year

College art student for 3 years

OTHER INTERESTS

Watching all different styles of animation from all over the world. Playing video games, watching movies and drawing comics.