William Chen

William Chen-CURRENT ADDRESS 16818 Labrador St. Northridge, CA 91343 - PERMANENT ADDRESS 19 Seabreeze Lane West Islip, NY 11795 - PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE______________________________________________________________ Pure Imagination Studios, Sherman Oaks, CA. VFX Manager ● Designed VFX for Lego’s ‘Piece By Piece’ Feature Film ● Created Motion Graphics Artist for Lego Dreams Season 2 Shorts ● Designed VFX for Unreleased Animated Feature Film Mammoth Vision Animation Studio, Burbank, CA. Project Lead ● Production Assistant for Bacardi Executive Film Presentation ● Modeled, Textured, Animated & Composited for Fremont Street Experience Vegas Shows: American Freedom, Heart, The Who, Green Day, Linkin Park Fremont Street ● Modeled, Textured, Animated, VFX and Art Directed for Steve Schwartz’s Magic To Do Stage Production for Princess Cruises ● Hired, Budgeted, Coordinated & Managed Animators for Fremont Street Green Day ● Designed, Animated, VFX, & Composited for Cesar Millan Live ● Designed, Textured, Animated, VFX, Composited & Projection Mapped for Cobra’s Curse Immersive Experience in Busch Gardens Tampa ● Character Designed, Animatics, Hired/Coordinated Animators, & Projection Mapped for The Magical Mural Shows at the Great Wolf Lodge ● Storyboards and Test Animation/VFX for the National Museum of the Marine Corps Antivillain Media, Los Angeles, CA VFX Producer ● Illustrated Promotional Comic ANYWHERE BUT EAST (ABE) ● Monster Animation, Camera Tracking, & VFX Compositing for film, LUCIFER ● Camera Tracking, & VFX Compositing for Digital Series, ABE: BREVITY ● Post Production Camera Tracking, & VFX Compositing for film, BODY SNATCH ● Post Production Camera Tracking, & VFX Compositing for series, MINIMUM WAGE ● Post Production Compositing for Youtube’s MOST POPULAR GIRLS VR experience. Threshold Animation Studio, Santa Monica, CA. Intern/ Production Assistant/Texture Artist ● Assisted Art Director, Director, and Head of Virtual Production on LEGO projects such as BIONICLE: The Legend Reborn, ATLANTIS, HERO FACTORY 2010 & 2011. ● Researched/ Assigned Colors/Textures for characters/props/sets with Photoshop. ● Developed/Modified 3D models for characters/props/sets with Maya. ● Managed interns and assigned projects. ● Developed Motion Graphics for Hero Factory 2011 with After Effects. ● Designed Character/Prop/Set Textures for Remastered Amazing Adventures of Spiderman ride at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure in Florida ● Designed Character/Prop/Set Textures for Justice League Alien Invasion 3D Warner Bros. Movie World in Australia Technicolor Animation Studios, Hollywood, CA. Art Coordinator/ Production Assistant ● Devised/Managed Design Schedule for film, MATTEL’s A Barbie Christmas ● Ensured Technicolor India received Designs for assets from Technicolor USA ● Ensured Technicolor USA received Geometry, Textures, Layouts, and Animation from Technicolor INDIA ● Researched/Assigned Textures for Designs of Characters/Props/Sets using Photoshop ● Managed/Organized Asset Database Employed Feb 20th 2023 to Sept 30th 2024 Employed April 2nd 2012 to Jan 10th 2023 Employed 2014 to 2017 Employed Jun 11th 2010 to May 30th 2012 Sept 13th 2010 to Feb 18th 2011 SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE______________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Office, ADOBE SUITE: Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, Premiere, Maya, Blender, Nuke, ShotGrid EDUCATION__________________________________________________________________________________ Cornell University, College of Art: Digital Media Concentration /College of Arts & Sciences Sept 2005 to Dual Degree Program: Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Arts May 2010