Shad Wilde
Animator, Actor, Storyboard Artist, Voiceover Actor
Specific Role Interest(s): Animator, voiceover actor, Cleanup Artist
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Mission / Career Statement
2D Animator and Storyboard Artist dedicated to creating engaging characters and visual stories that connect with audiences through strong storytelling, creativity, and collaboration.
- Degree/Certificate: Certificate
- School/Program: Exceptional Minds
- Graduation Date: June 11, 2021
- Degree/Certificate: Associate's
- School/Program: University of New Mexico Los Alamos
- Graduation Date: May, 2018
Education
- Technical Skills: Adobe Premier Pro, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, Adobe Animate, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Toon Boom Harmony
- Professional Skills: Strong visual storyteller and 2D animator with strengths in character acting, shot composition, timing, staging, and cinematic storytelling. Creative, collaborative, detail-oriented, and committed to bringing engaging stories and memorable characters to life.
- Languages Spoken: English
Professional Skills
- Animated, colored, and cleaned scenes for Peppermint Spiral, meeting production deadlines.
- Created storyboard sequences in Disney mentorship, emphasizing emotion and cinematography.
- Storyboarded a 4.5-minute Charlie and the Chocolate Factory sequence at Cartoon Network.
- Company: Exceptionl Minds
Position: 2D Animation Checker/Revisionist
Year(s): 2021- 2022
Description: Animation Checker/Revisionist – exp. Hospice Project Creating, checking, and delivering animation scenes including files, media, and information that are complete and concise. As a high-functioning autistic animator, able to quickly identify and resolve any missing, incorrect, or incomplete scenes, actions, effects or details. Manages projects using MS Excel. Working remotely and in the studio, on a daily basis receives and incorporates feedback. When necessary, quickly embraces change. - Company: Icarus Development
Position: 2D Animator
Year(s): 2024-2026
Description: 2D Animation with characters' actions: Rough, Cleanup, Expressions, and Lip-Sync. - Company: Exceptional Minds
Position: Storyboard Revisionist
Year(s): 2021 - 2022
Description: While holding to character style and sensibility, revised storyboards. In addition to cleanup, created key animation scenes, and revised over 130 panels. Met weekly with supervisors to communicate technical and creative ideas and directions for the story. - Company: Exceptional Minds
Position: Teacher Assistant
Year(s): 2020
Description: Assisting in Animation Workshops - Company: Disney
Position: Storyboard Artist
Year(s): 2023
Description: Storyboard Exercises with Kyle Boyd, including storyboards for Amphibia and The Owl House, television series. - Company: Cartoon Network
Position: Student Mentee
Year(s): 2019
Description: During fall of 2019, excelled and collaborated with Tera Helfer in an incredible mentorship with Cartoon Network, with an emphasis on cinematography. Ensured that character reactions, expressions and actions were correct, consistent, and entertaining. Using children’s action, drama, and emotional storytelling proficiency in the style of Quentin Blake, created and revised a 4.5-minute sequence of Veruca in the Nut Room from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I even completed a follow up to this sequence, called Good-bye Violet. - “Best Of” at Marvels of Media: Grief is a Spectrum Too
- “Best Of” at Exceptional Minds: Spring 2021-Animation Work
- “Best Of” at Exceptional Minds: Fall 2019-Motion Graphic Work
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