I am a storyboard artist and an illustrator.

I’ve been storyboarding for animation for 15 years.

I work on traditionally and computer animated feature

films and cartoons for television.

I’ve been an in-house staff artist for:

SONY ANIMATION,

HBO Original ANIMATION

TURNER FEATURE  ANIMATION

SCHOLASTIC  ANIMATION

ANIMAGIC

 

and a freelancer for:

HAMMERHEAD PRODUCTIONS

MATTEL PRODUCTIONS

WARNER BROS

CARTOON NETWORK

STARZ MEDIA

4 KIDS

Marvel Animation

and more...

 

I’ve worked on all kinds of shows and movies from Adult Dramas to pre-K educational programs (from Spawn to Sesame Street).

I’m also an illustrator in a variety of styles for comic books, kids-books/media, posters, editorial, and advertising art.

I illustrated the graphic novel, Le Morte D’Arthur Vol. 1,  The Coming of  the King.  Written by John Matthews

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ACHIEVEMENTS:

 

1999 Emmy Award: Outstanding Animated Program (Programming More Than One Hour)  Recipient as part of a team, Spawn II.

 

2001 Nominated for Annie Award for work on The Big Guy and Rusty (Best Storyboards for a television series)

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

1/19 Current Old Ford Road Design Inc., New Paltz, NY

Heineman Publishing, Houghton Mifflin - designer, Illustrator

Designing for a Teaching Reading Series

Bean Labs, Phizer Pharmaceuticals - illustrator, storyboard artist

 

10/18 - 1/19 Rainmaker Studio, Vancouver, B.C.

Managed team of 6 story artists for an Octonauts series special                                                          - storyboard director

 

3/17 - 6/18 Heineman Publishing, Portsmouth, NH

Designed & Illustrated text books for Houghton Mifflin

 - illustrator, designer

 

3/17 - 3/17 LOW BROW STUDIO, Norwalk, CT

World Wrestling Entertainment animated content

- background design

 

10/16 - 3/17 HORNET FILMS.,  NYC, NY

Freelance TVC boards for animated & live action TVC’s

- storyboard artist

 

9/16 - 10/16 WARNER BROS.,  Burbank, CA

DTV Scooby Doo: The Brave and the Bold  -storyboard artist

 

7/16 - 9/16 WARNER BROS.,  Burbank, CA

Be Cool Scooby Doo - revision artist

 

6/16 - 6/16 NEW YORKERS FOR CLEAN POWER

Road to Renewables blog opening - animator, director

 

4/16-5/16 ZINC INC., Toronto, Canada

TVC “teaser” Mysticons - storyboard artist

 

9/15-10/15 IDEAROCKET,  NYC, NY

American Airlines whiteboard  - storyboard artist

 

8/15 - 9/15 WARNER BROS.,  Burbank, CA

Be Cool Scooby Doo  - storyboard artist

 

3/14 -  8/14 AA STUDIO,  Moscow, Russia

Friends Ten (5) 11 min. shorts  (CGI)   -director

 

7/14 - 8/14 WARNER BROS., Burbank, CA

Be Cool Scooby Doo - revision artist

 

2/14 - 4/14 NICKELODEON,  NYC, NY

Blaze and the Monster Machines - storyboard artist

 

2/13 - 2/14 HEINEMAN PUBLISHING,  Portsmouth, MA                          - storyboard artist, illustrator

 

12/11 - 12/12 PARTIZAN, NYC,  Director: Dave Grohl

Sound Garden Music video - storyboard artist

 

12/7 -  12/8 PILOT NYC  NYC, - interstitials - storyboard artist

 

3/12 -  9/12 HAMMERHEAD PRODUCTIONS, El Segundo, CA

The Boxcar Children, CGI Feature Film - storyboard artist

 

8/11 - 2/12  MATTEL PRODUCTIONS, El Segundo, CA

Max Steel CGI The Monstrous Alliance - storyboard artist

 

4/11 - 8/11  STARZ MEDIA, CA

Ultimate Spiderman 2D-CGI - storyboard artist

 

2/11 - 4/11  MATTEL PRODUCTIONS, El Segundo, CA

Max Steel, CGI Makino’s  Revenge - storyboard artist

 

4/10 - 12/10  SELFMADEHERO, London, UK

Le’ Morte D’Arthur Vol. 1 graphic novel - penciller, inker, colorist

 

11/09 - 3/10  SIMON AND SCHUSTER, NYC, NY

Ni Hao Kai Lan Heart Box, Friends - illustrator

 

8/09 - 12/09  WARNER BROS, Los Angeles, CA

Scooby Doo Legend of the Phantasaur - storyboard artist

 

8/07 - 3/09  PORCHLIGHT ANIMATION, Los Angeles, CA

Secret Saturdays seasons 1 & 2 - storyboard artist

 

2/09 - 3/09  PARTIZAN NYC  Director: Michel Gondry

Feature Film proposal “The Green Hornet”- storyboard artist

 

8/08- 3/09  DC COMICS, New York, NY

Action Pack - penciller

 

5/08 - 9/08  SPEAKEASYFX, New york, NY

Abbey's Flying Fairy School, 3 Episodes - storyboard artist

 

3/06 - 6/07  ANIMAGIC, New York, NY

Nate the Great (Flash/series PBS) - layout, BG design

Tree Elves (theatrical short CGI) - development artist

Speed Racer  (straight to video/Flash cartoon) - Co-Director

 

7/04 - 8/05  SCHOLASTIC ENT, New York, NY

The Misadventures of Maya and Miguel - storyboard artist

 

9/02 - 9/04  4 KIDS ENTERTAINMENT, New York NY

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles season I,II - storyboard artist

 

7/98 - 7/03  SONY ANIMATION, Culver City, CA

Jackie Chan Adventures seasons 1-5

Harold and the Purple Crayon - storyboard artist

Dragon Tales - storyboard artist

Heavy Gear CGI - storyboard artist

The Big Guy and Rusty - storyboard artist

Godzilla the animated series - storyboard artist

 

9/96 - 6/98   HBO ORIGINAL ANIMATION, Century City, CA

Spawn the animated series: II,III - clean-up

II,III/story - artist III

Spicy City - layout artist

Wildside - development/story artist

Gina &TL  - development/story artist

 

1/96 - 9/96  TURNER FEATURE ANIMATION, Glendale, CA

Cat’s Don’t Dance - character in-betweener 

 

EDUCATION

 

1991 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, BFA, Illustration

 

1986  University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, BA, Literature

 

WILL SWEENEY  (845) 255-9168    bigwillsweeney@gmail.com