I am a professional 2D artist, animation designer, illustrator and cartoonist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada I am an animation industry veteran with nearly fifteen years of experience working on a myriad of projects in a variety of roles. My background is in traditional art, and I have a formal education in classical 2D animation, specializing in hand drawn technique. That said I have been using digital tools for just as long and would consider myself an expert digital painter. As my career has evolved it led me toward digital 2D art, character and prop design, background layout and painting, as well as storyboarding and illustration. At this point in my career, I consider myself a master draftsman and illustrator, expert character and prop designer as well as an extremely proficient background layout designer and painter. In my spare time I moonlight as an amateur comic book creator, where I use the medium to hone my various artistic disciplines. **Recent employment and project experience** *Freelance Designer/BG painter, Animator* August 2023 – Present, Solis Animation, Toronto, ON - Worked on various character, prop, and BG designs as well as final BG paintings on several short films as well as still in development new series. - BG painter on the short film "The Whistle" - Animator of the 2D hand drawn segments of the documentary "Singing Back the Buffalo" *Posing Artist (Key Animator)* December 2021 – July 2023, Elliott Animation, Toronto, ON - Character Posing artist (key animation) on the show Total Drama Island *Prop Designer* June 2022 – December 2022, House of Cool, Toronto, ON - Prop designer on the show Freak Brothers *Animator* August 2020 – December 2021, Copernicus Animation Studios, Halifax, NS - Character Animator on the WB show Teen Titans GO!…I am a professional 2D artist, animation designer, illustrator and cartoonist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada I am an animation industry veteran with nearly fifteen years of experience working on a myriad of projects in a variety of roles. My background is in traditional art, and I have a formal education in classical 2D animation, specializing in hand drawn technique. That said I have been using digital tools for just as long and would consider myself an expert digital painter. As my career has evolved it led me toward digital 2D art, character and prop design, background layout and painting, as well as storyboarding and illustration. At this point in my career, I consider myself a master draftsman and illustrator, expert character and prop designer as well as an extremely proficient background layout designer and painter. In my spare time I moonlight as an amateur comic book creator, where I use the medium to hone my various artistic disciplines. **Recent employment and project experience** *Freelance Designer/BG painter, Animator* August 2023 – Present, Solis Animation, Toronto, ON - Worked on various character, prop, and BG designs as well as final BG paintings on several short films as well as still in development new series. - BG painter on the short film "The Whistle" - Animator of the 2D hand drawn segments of the documentary "Singing Back the Buffalo" *Posing Artist (Key Animator)* December 2021 – July 2023, Elliott Animation, Toronto, ON - Character Posing artist (key animation) on the show Total Drama Island *Prop Designer* June 2022 – December 2022, House of Cool, Toronto, ON - Prop designer on the show Freak Brothers *Animator* August 2020 – December 2021, Copernicus Animation Studios, Halifax, NS - Character Animator on the WB show Teen Titans GO!WWWW…