will sweeney

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

Will Sweeney illustrator

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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   CEO, CCO, CFO

                           Heineman Publishing, Client: Houghton Mifflin                   designer, Illustrator

                           Designing for a Teaching Reading Series

 

                           Bean Labs,  Client: Phizer Pharmaceuticals                           illustrator, storyboard artist

                           Illustrations for documentary, trade film

 

                           Vice Media, Client: LA Museum of Marijuana,                      illustrator, designer

                            Illustrations for exhibit designer proposal.

 

                            Flicker Filmworks, Client: Wild Earth                                    design and animation

                            2D Animated content for tick awareness video

 

                            Bruner House LLC                                                                  storyboard artist, designer

                            BG and Character designs and

                            Storyboards for interactive television content

 

                            Warner Bros. Animation,                                                        lead character designer

                            Lead character designer for upcoming  Feature Film.

 

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, NY

                       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                                        storyboard artist

                     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  845-245-7120    wsweeney.oldfordroaddesign@gmail.com