With over 20 years in the animation industry, I have worked on a variety of series for broadcasters including Disney, Netflix, Amazon, and Nick Jr. I am passionate about entertaining audiences through solid, well-timed, well-animated, character-driven storytelling. My specialties include Series/Project Development, Direction, Animation Direction, Character Design, Art Direction, Storyboard Direction, Classical and Digital animation, FX animation, and Pre/Post Production supervision for Music and Sound. Proficient in Maya, Storyboard Pro, Sketchbook Pro, Photoshop, Flash Animator, Premiere, Moho, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Syncsketch, Cinesync, Excel, Microsoft Word, Pages, Final Draft, Frame I/O, Shotgrid.…

Jeff Astolfo

With over 20 years in the animation industry, I have worked on a variety of series for broadcasters including Disney, Netflix, Amazon, and Nick Jr. I am passionate about entertaining audiences through solid, well-timed, well-animated, character-driven storytelling. My specialties include Series/Project Development, Direction, Animation Direction, Character Design, Art Direction, Storyboard Direction, Classical and Digital animation, FX animation, and Pre/Post Production supervision for Music and Sound. Proficient in Maya, Storyboard Pro, Sketchbook Pro, Photoshop, Flash Animator, Premiere, Moho, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Syncsketch, Cinesync, Excel, Microsoft Word, Pages, Final Draft, Frame I/O, Shotgrid.…

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With over 20 years in the animation industry, I have worked on a variety of series for broadcasters including Disney, Netflix, Amazon, and Nick Jr. I am passionate about entertaining audiences through solid, well-timed, well-animated, character-driven storytelling.

My specialties include Series/Project Development, Direction, Animation Direction, Character Design, Art Direction, Storyboard Direction, Classical and Digital animation, FX animation, and Pre/Post Production supervision for Music and Sound. Proficient in Maya, Storyboard Pro, Sketchbook Pro, Photoshop, Flash Animator, Premiere, Moho, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Syncsketch, Cinesync, Excel, Microsoft Word, Pages, Final Draft, Frame I/O, Shotgrid.

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Work Experience

Series Director at Guru Studio
April 1, 2022 - April 1, 2024
Directed Morphle and the Magic Pets (Disney/Moonbug) in 3D for television; oversaw creative direction and production workflow.
Director at Guru Studio
May 1, 2021 - May 1, 2022
Directed Dino Daycare for Netflix in a 3D production pipeline; led visual storytelling and episode planning.
Instructor/Mentor/Lecturer (Storyboarding: Advanced Story Structure) at Sheridan College
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022
Institutional teaching role focusing on advanced story structure in storyboarding; curriculum development and mentoring.
Development/Director at Nelvana/Corus Ent.
May 1, 2019 - May 1, 2020
Development and directorial involvement on various Nelvana/Corus projects.
Director/Show Runner at Nelvana/Corus Ent.
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Show running and directorial duties on The Remarkable Mr. King (Treehouse) – 2D.
Writer at Nelvana/Corus Ent.
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Wrote The Remarkable Mr. King (6 Episodes).
Storyboard Artist at Nelvana/Corus Ent.
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2018
Storyboard work on The Remarkable Mr. King (3 Episodes).
Director/Development at Nelvana/Corus Ent.
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2018
Development and directing for Nelvana/Corus projects.
Director at Nelvana/Corus Ent.
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2017
Directed Mysticons.
Director at Nelvana/Corus Ent.
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2016
Director for Nickelodeon's Bubble Guppies – 3D.
Assistant/Animation Director at Nelvana Ltd. / Corus Entertainment
January 1, 2007 - January 1, 2010
Assisted animation direction for The Backyardigans; design/model approvals; previs and layout notes.
3D Character Animator at Nelvana Ltd/Corus Entertainment
January 1, 2003 - January 1, 2007
3D character animation for The Backyardigans.
Supervising Animator at Nelvana Ltd/Corus Entertainment
January 1, 2001 - January 1, 2003
Oversaw animation, design approvals, previs, rough cut, colour through to post.
Senior Flash Animator at Nelvana Ltd/Corus Entertainment
January 1, 2001 - January 1, 2003
Development of Flash animation on Max and Ruby.
Co-Director/Storyboard Artist at Nelvana
January 1, 2005 - January 1, 2005
Spliced Promo.
3D Character Animator/Layout at Nelvana
January 1, 2005 - January 1, 2005
"Handy Manny" (2005) animation work.
Senior Flash Animator at Nelvana
January 1, 2004 - January 1, 2004
9th Life of Sherman Phelps; Gruesomestein’s Monsters.
Director at Nelvana
January 1, 2004 - January 1, 2004
Oscar’s Atlas Promo.
Character Key Animator/ FX Key Animator at Walt Disney Studios
January 1, 1996 - January 1, 2000
Key animation work on Osmosis Jones; related titles Beauty and the Beast Christmas Belle, Pocahontas: Journey to a New World.
Key Character Posing at Sullivan Animation Studios
January 1, 2000 - January 1, 2000
Character Key Animator on Anne of Green Gables.

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Animation Diploma at Sheridan College
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 1992

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