Freelancer for Nickelodeon

November 2011 - Present: Freelance illustrator and digital ink & paint 

Projects include:

• Spongebob Squarepants
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Peter Rabbit
• Dora the Explorer
• Team Umi Zumi

                                                               

Examples  - These are examples of digital ink & paint illustrations that I created for Nickelodeon's off-air department.  I receive what are called "tight pencils" - scans of illustrators drawings and create either a vector version of the art with both spot and cmyk color for printing options or I create high resolution photoshop paintings.


Spongebob painterly examples:

This shows the beginning process from digital vector ink & color to the following image of the photoshop enhanced/painterly version

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Digital ink & Color :

Peter Rabbit Digital Watercolor:

Dora Seasonal examples - Digital ink & color and Digital paint alternative style:

Team Umi Seasonal examples - Vector ink & color :

Freelancer for Dorian Orange

June 2009 - 2011 - Freelance illustrator, animator, storyboard artists for Dorian Orange  

Projects inlude:

• Clinique - Illustrations for pitch campaign 
• Instyle Magazine - Augmented realtiy project (an interactive magazine project that worked with the Instyle website) Responsibilities included story-boarding scenes appropriate to the featured clothing items and directing the models path and gestures for a green-screen shoot and creating illustrated environments for the live models to be superimposed in to
• Starbucks Frappucino - Illustrated type design and animation
• Timex - Women's lifestyle watch animation, illustration, free-flow story-boarding
• American Eagle Outfitters - Animation and designs for American Eagle Kids lines.  Creation of Blue bird logo animations compiled by D.O.’s animators for Times Square mega screen advertisement.  Winter sales Yeti character animation and Blue bird logo animations to be compiled by D.O team for an online advertisement

                                                               
Clinique concept art  - Created a vector illustration sampling Clinique's in-store display designs for a potential in-store animated video piece

Instyle Magazine - These are the compiled videos created by the animators and programmers at Dorian Orange.  I created and illustrated the environments and assets in these and my storyboards were used by the directors for the green screen shoot

 
InStyle Magazine - Background and Asset Designs

 Screengrabs of the Programmers' Prototype of the Augmented Reality Effect

Timex Women's Lifetracker Watch Video - My role was to create the look and feel for this ad as well as a motion test, free flowing storyboards, and all illustrations and assets. The animators at Dorian Orange then compiled and animated the rest producing this video below:

Timex Women's Lifetracker Watch Sketches

American Eagle Outfitters Online Promotion - This is for a specific target market for an area store opening. My role was to create animation assets that represented the look and feel of the American Eagle Outfitters children's line and holiday themed store decor. My responsibilities were to create illustrations of characters and characters assets to be animated and create mini animations to be compiled and incorporated by the animators at Dorian Orange who animated the rest and produced this video below:

Freelancer for Present Creative, San Francisco

October 2008 - Present - Freelance animator, character, and background at designer Present Creative - Gaming company  in San Francisco

• Mafia/crime based casual game - background digital painter
• Club/Mixer game - Character designs - body and wardrobe. Over 16 designs total
• Sketchbook game pitch for social networking sites - design and illustration
• Veternarian game pitch - design, illustration, character design
• Poker game for social networking sites - background digital painter, character animation
• Ballistic game -creating full turnarounds and over 20 unique animations for each as well as talk cycles
• Background digital illustrations and animations for more that 15 different levels and environments
• Petsville game - background design and asset creations
• JewelQuest - storybook illustrations
• Pro golf  game - Illustrations and character designs 
• CocoQueen - Creation of the overall look and feel of the game, character design, background and asset design

Club mixer game - Character's heads were already designed in-house.  My role was to create their bodies and outfits as well as produce character turnarounds. Below are two examples:

CocoQueen Game - My role was to create a look and feel for characters, assets, and backgrounds and then produce elements in that style to be animated for game play. Below are examples of each:

Ballistics Game - Taking character designs and animating an extensive list of actions and reactions for game play and also creating artistic vector skins for play levels. Below are examples including one level and 3 different character animations:

Full-time Flash Animator RG/A

September 2007 - October 2008 - Full-time Flash Animator at RG/A

Accounts included Nokia, SC Johnson & Johnson, and L'Oreal. Responsibilities for each included:

• Nokia - weekly banner animations, illustrations for new product releases and client pitches, animation and interface consultant for CNET promotions of new devices, and coordinating website homepage banner animations with the London and New York offices.
• S.C. Johmsom & Johnson - banner animations in multiple sizes for Acuvue Contact Lenses and Lactaid
• L'Oreal - Site design and motion direction for cross promotional campaign between L'Oreal Kid's Shampoo line and the theater release of Dr. Suess's "Horton Hears A Who!"

Nokia - The following 6 images are stills from promotional Nokia homepage banners. Created animations from the designers' photoshop flats. Links to view animations are directly above corresponding images.

http://kdenato.com/portfolio2009/IPF01_playwindow.html

 http://kdenato.com/portfolio2009/IPF02_playwindow.html

 http://kdenato.com/portfolio2009/IPF03_playwindow.html

 http://kdenato.com/portfolio2009/IPF04_playwindow.html

 http://kdenato.com/portfolio2009/IPF05_playwindow.html

 Nokia  Banner ads - Animations created from designers' flats. To view animations, please click on the link just above the images.

 http://kdenato.com/portfolio2009/banners02_playwindow.html

http://kdenato.com/portfolio2009/banners02_03_playwindow.html

  http://kdenato.com/portfolio2009/banners02_02_playwindow.html

L'Oreal - "Dr. Suess's Horton Hear's A Who!" and L'Oreal Kids' Shampoo line Website Design.  Below is a small selection of flats I created for the landing page, roll-over states, and other miscellaneous pages.

Freelance/Full-time at EURO RSCG Life Interaction

January 2005 -September 2007 - Freelance/Full-time Junior Art Director and Flash Animator at EURO RSCG Life Interaction


Responsibilities included:

• Working with the AD and CD's web design photoshop flats and making corrections as well as fleshing out further site pages based on their templates
• Animating banner ads, internal newsletters, and e-vites
• Illustrating for client's monthly newsletters
• Story-boarding for promotional animated shorts, interactive game concepts, and live action commercial video shoots

Email Blast - created for a client's internal promotion of a new product.  I received a rough board from the client and AD. My role included illustration, asset creation, and animation.  

To view the animation click here: http://kdenato.com/portfolio2009/Emailblasts1_playwindow.html

Here are some stills below:

Email Blast - created for a client's internal promotion of a new product.  My role was to create this from printed materials supplied by the client. The final result included illustration, asset creation, and animation.  

To view the animation click here: http://kdenato.com/portfolio2009/Emailblasts2_playwindow.html

Here are some stills below:

Evite - created for the company's internal holiday greeting and invitation to the office holiday party.  My role was to create this from start to finish - including illustration, asset creation, and animation.  

To view the animation click here: http://kdenato.com/portfolio2009/Evites1_playwindow.html

Here are some stills below:

Evite - created for an internal company meeting.  My role was to create this from start to finish - including illustration, asset creation, and animation.  

To view the animation click here: http://kdenato.com/portfolio2009/Evites2_playwindow.html

Here are some stills below:

Email Blast - created for a client's homepage flash banner header. My role included working from designers photoshop flats, illustration, asset creation, and animation.  

To view the animation click here: http://kdenato.com/portfolio2009/IPF07_playwindow.html

Here are some stills below: