Resume

LIAM ROBINSON

Summary

With a BFA in Animation from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, I’ve strived and worked very hard to become an animator and a storyboard artist within the animation industry. I have 10 years of experience in both animation and storyboards from a variety of studios including the Award winning studio, Soup2Nuts to the award winning Popcap/EA games studio where I started my Art Directing career on Plants vs Zombies 2. I have continued my Art Direction soon after PvZ2 with helping the start-up Electric Manta by hiring artists, managing and leading the art department, working with presentations, training Junior artists, mentoring artists who want to be managers, and Art Directing several projects using Unity, Photoshop, and Blender.

I’m dedicated to learning more about animation. I have successfully completed a certificate course in 3D Animation from the University of Washington to broaden my animation skills into video games and movies.

Skills

Art Director
Animator
Storyboard Artist
Layout Artist
Illustrator
3DS Max
Maya
Flash/Animate
Blender
Unity Animation

Work History

Studio Art Director - Electric Manta Productions

-April 2021 - Present

Overseas the visuals of the Studio
Overseas Art Direction for 3 casual games
Overseas Art Direction for 6 Hyper/Hybrid Casual Games per month
Manages the careers of the art team
Trains Junior Artists
Hiring Artists
Leadership
High communication skills

Animator - Titmouse Studios
-March 2021 - April 2021
Key animator for The Harper House
Work to make animated sequence based off of storyboards
Work closely with Animation Director to iterate on notes

Associate Art Director - Popcap/EA

-August 2014 - February 2021

Responsible keeping characters, animation, background elements, worlds,
events, and marketing assets on brand and high quality for Plants vs Zombies 2
Manager to a team of artists
Character design
Level design
Leadership
High communication skills

Sr. Animator - Popcap/EA

-August 2013 - August 2014

Oversee all animation for the award winning Plants vs. Zombies 2: It’s About Time.

Freelance Animator - Black is the New Blank

-January 2013 - February 2013 (1 month)

Web page animation

Senior Animator - Z2

-January 2013– August (6 months)

Oversees animation quality within all of the iOS games including “Trade Nations”,
Geekwire Start-up Game of the Year 2012 award winner “Battle Nations”, and
“Shadowslayer: Dawn of the Lightforge”.

Animator - Z2

-August 2011 - January 2013 (1 year 6 months)

Animator for smart phone app games which include “Trade Nations”, “Battle Nations”
and “Currently Untitled”. Battle Nations recieved the Geekwire Seattle Startup award
for Game of the year in 2012 and continues to be one of the top grossing mobile apps
on the App Store.

Animator - Soup2Nuts

-2004 - August 2011 (7 years)

Animator for the Emmy winning PBS Kids show, “Wordgirl”

Animator/Storyboard artist/Layout artist for Daytime Emmy nominated Discovery Kids
show, “Time Warp Trio”

Animator/Storyboard artist/Layout artist for the N show, “O’Grady”

Freelance Layout/Storyboard artist - Hero4Hire Creative

-October 2010 - October 2010 (1 month)

Layout and storyboard design for several animated Christmas cards for,
Hero4Hire client, Staples. Each about 10-15 seconds long.

Freelance Storyboard/Layout artist - Cloudkid Studios

-July 2009 - September 2009 (3 months)

A quick freelance gig as a layout artist and a storyboarder for 10 short webisodes.

Animator - Fatkat Studios

-May 2007 - November 2007 (7 months)

Animator for “Supernormal”; Rough Animator for the Nicktoon’s show, “Three Delivery”

Animator/Designer - Cricket Moon Media

-May 2006 - May 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Designer/Animator to many Flash based web games and activities for Hasbro,
Discovery Channel, and The Disney Channel.

Education

Rhode Island School of Design - BFA in Film, Animation, and Video. Also many credits in Illustration. 1999-2003
University of Washington - Certificate in 3D Animation for Games and Media. 2009-2010