Morningside College of Art

Background Painter at Bento Box

Los Angeles, California, United States

Stoopid Buddy Stoodios

Concept Artist

Bento Box Entertainment LLC

Background Painter

I am responsible for creating background paintings for Disney Animation books. My skills as a traditional painter help to replicate the style of some of Disney Animations most popular titles.This role requires a knowledge of how color and light can work to advance the story in a scene, having the ability to produce many styles of painting digitally and working within the productions pipeline to achieve short deadlines. All while keeping company standards and expectations for some of the worlds most loved stories.

Disney Publishing Worldwide

Background Painter (freelance)

Titmouse

On the show Close Enough, I was responsible for painting the water color inspired backgrounds. The role required an advanced knowledge of color and light, value and overall setting the scene to help the characters best tell the story. We worked closely with the production crew to understand the pipeline and meet all the deadlines in a timely manner.

Cartoon Network

Work with Imagineering team members and independent contractors to create art and concepts for exciting new additions to Disney's theme parks and themed entertainment. I work alongside the team to develop ideas at a basic sketch level and advance the art all the way through the visual development process, finally creating marketing ready concept paintings.

Walt Disney Imagineering

Senior Concept Artist

I worked alongside the Art Director, Owner and Producer to come up with ideas and develop the clients concepts from start to finish on all projects while at Mousetrappe. One such example was The Little Mermaid at the Hollywood Bowl. I was responsible for all concept development, storyboarding and some of the final Matte Painting work that went into creating a films worth of new animation to accompany the original Disney movie. Under an extremely tight deadline we managed to produce high quality art and animation in a very short time.

Mousetrappe

Senior Concept Designer

Was responsible for painting diverse environments showcasing the use of color harmony, light and texture for key scenes on the TV show Valt the Wonder Deer.

DreamEast Pictures

While at Rough Draft I worked on Matt Groening's new show, Disenchantment. I had two roles while at the studio, Color Stylist and Background Painter. I was responsible for creating appealing color choices to match the show style, make color choices for props and also characters. I also painted backgrounds, finishing off the look and style of the show.

Rough Draft Studios

Color Stylist and Background Painter

My role as Background Painter and Designer involves creating designs for the TV show Mighty Magiswords. I am responsible for creating designs/paints based off the storyboards for the show.I get to make color, lighting and layout choices while trying to keep to the style of the show.

Background Painter and Designer (freelance)

Duties include supporting art team and art directors with illustrations, paints and POV renders for theme park rides/entertainment.From photo real art that showcases a landscape to illustration and paintings that progress a concept. A knowledge of color and lighting, layout, landscape design, perspective and more are essential to creating believable and fun worlds.The art needs to be of a high quality and meet strict deadlines. Expert use of Photoshop on a Mac is essential.I got to work on massive projects and with amazing IP's such as: Warner Brother World, Lionsgate Entertainment World, Batman, Justice League, Twilight, Hunger Games, Harry Potter and more.

Thinkwell Group

Illustrator and Concept Artist

This role required a series of character designs with a robot theme. The robots needed to be active in gesture and appealing to children. I was required to design initial sketches right through to finalized art/color.

Wallah!

Character Designer

For this role I am creating both the character designs and book illustrations for The Condiment Chronicles: Please Pass the Ketchup.Firstly I had to design sauce bottle characters for some of the worlds biggest condiment brands. For example:Heinz, A1, Tobasco, Hellmans, Kraft and more.These characters will then become the central focus for the book which I will illustrate based on the story concept by Author Sarah Wood. I also had to keep in mind the potential for the story to become a short animation. This meant the creation of a color script and backgrounds before laying out the book.The Condiment Chronicles will release in the first half of 2016.

Sarah Wood (Author)

Children's Book Illustrator/Character Designer

Icons of Awesomeball is a tabletop game concept I created early in 2015. It became a successful Kickstarter campaign in July.Originally I started by choosing a concept, writing gameplay mechanics, designing iconic characters and developing the artwork. Over the course of the next 3 months I designed and tested the gameplay for this unique tabletop experience. It combines cards, dice, a ball and a cup for making shots into.After creating a fun and exciting game I then decided to use Kickstarter as the platform for funding the products production. I created all elements for the campaign including the script for the video trailer, campaign elements, marketing designs (logo, packaging, advertising, etc) and ran the campaign.The game was successfully funded and is currently in production. It is set to be released late 2015.

nicgregory.com

Artist and Game Designer

Illustrator/Concept Artist for the creation of the book Sleeping Beauty.This classic tale was reimagined and I designed a new world with characters, props, landscapes and more. This job required full concept art development from character design and props to color keys and final Illustrations. All book layout work was also designed and I produced  both a hardcover release and eBook vesion.The book was a successful release and the work produced has gained me further book illustration roles throughout 2015.

Illustrator (Sleeping Beauty Book)

Worked as a Graphic Designer within the national marketing team. Responsible for creating designs and art for all advertising, internal communications, website imagery, marketing, labelling and product designs, art for fleet of vehicles/trucks, in store product/advertising ideas and development.I was the sole artist for the Century Yuasa marketing department and managed to deliver all artwork needs to the entire company across all sectors of the business throughout Australia. All creative tasks were completed successfully with a high level of accuracy and deadlines were consistently met.

Century Yuasa Batteries

Graphic Designer

I started at APN Digital as  Graphic Designer. I was responsible for creating all advertising, internal communications and concept ideas. I also added more responsibilities to my role and expanded the position to Interactive Designer. This included the creation of animated online advertising, website design, interactive ad concepts plus 2D artwork for concepts and animations.APN Digital was a fast paced environment that demanded accuracy and that all work met strict deadlines. I was proud to have added some imaginative artwork to the work I produced while supplying work on time for the multiple print publications and websites.This position allowed me to push further into concept design and animation, which is where I wished to progress my career towards.

APN Digital

Interactive Designer

While working as part of the production team creating advertisements and page layout for print publications, I managed to become the Production Supervisor. I managed a team of designers and made sure the team met strict daily deadlines, artwork specifications, creative quality and more.I also worked on concepts for new publications, created advertising and 2D artwork designs. Accuracy and time management were extremely important to this role and insured that hundreds of thousands of readers and consumers were given error free, appealing publications.

Quest Community Newspapers

Production Supervisor

This role required artwork designs for advertising and print publications. Later on in the role basic website design, outdoor media design, and marketing collateral creation were added.I learnt a lot in this position from better page layout, color theory, magazine design, book cover design to 2D artwork for cartoons, caricature and more.I worked as part of a small team that developed a fantastic product to become a growing company and part of the local community. We delivered great artwork, managed demanding deadlines, interacted well with clients and consistently created engaging products and publications.

Nic Gregory

Nic Gregory