DreamWorks Animation

My responsibilities: As one of my first gigs out of college, I joined DreamWorks as a Junior Animator on Penguins of Madagascar, a spinoff of the original Madagascar movie series.

As an animator, my role was to work closely with layout artists, the character animation team and the lighting/rendering production crew for delivering feature-quality animations. The film grossed over $373 million worldwide.

Fun fact: With each character having 4000-6000 controls each, record ourselves performing dialogues and try to bring that personality into the characters we animate. Typically, each animator would animate 1-2 seconds of footage per week!