Student at Ringling School of Art and Design
Sarasota, Florida Area
- Past
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- Fjorg! at SIGGRAPH
- Senior Compositor at Tangerine
- Senior Compositor at Ikka Productions
- Graphic Designer at Masterphoto Ltd.
- Education
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- Ringling School of Art and Design
- Escape Studios
- Filmbase Temple Bar, Dublin
- Ballyfermot Senior College of Further Education, Dublin
- Coláiste Dhúlaigh
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Brendan Carroll’s Summary
Graduated in Dublin, Ireland with a higher national diploma in classical animation, certificate in art & design. Now attending Ringling College of Art + Design in Florida for a degree in Computer Animation.
Proficient in Maya, Renderman, Shake & Photoshop (matte painting, colour keying, colour retouching).
My goal is to push my artistic limits beyond my current abilities and never to lose my curiosity in things... to work with people, to teach and to learn.
Brendan Carroll’s Specialties:
Character Animation, Storyboarding, Illustration, Compositing, running to catch the bus.
Brendan Carroll’s Experience
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Fjorg!
SIGGRAPH
(Animation industry)
August 2009 — August 2009 (1 month)
SIGGRAPH 2009 New Orleans. Completed an animated short within a 32 hour time frame based on team effort.
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Senior Compositor
Tangerine
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
July 2006 — August 2006 (2 months)
Feature project using Apple Shake for compositing/post production effects
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Senior Compositor
Ikka Productions
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
October 2003 — August 2006 (2 years 11 months)
Matte painting/set extensions using Photoshop and Shake. Bluescreening colour keys were very common in the workflow. Finishing shots and grading were also part of the job. Edited short corporate reels on Final Cut Pro for investors/interested parties.
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Graphic Designer
Masterphoto Ltd.
(Design industry)
September 2004 — June 2006 (1 year 10 months)
Layout and design for print using Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign, Quark Xpress, colour retouching etc.
Brendan Carroll’s Education
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Ringling School of Art and Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts , Computer Animation , 2006 — 2010 (expected)
Technological skills such as Maya and Shake, storyboarding, character design and animation, ultimately to serve storytelling.
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Escape Studios
Pixar's Renderman Certified Courseware , 2009 — 2009
Covered the fundamentals of rendering with Renderman for Maya including writing shading networks in Slim and outputting renders with Renderman's "It".
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Filmbase Temple Bar, Dublin
Certified Pro Apple User , Shake 101 , 2005 — 2005
Intensive course in Shake 4.1 compositing, endorsed by Apple.
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Ballyfermot Senior College of Further Education, Dublin
Higher National Diploma , Higher National Diploma in Classical Animation , 2001 — 2003
Merit Diploma in Classical Animation, BTEC award
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Coláiste Dhúlaigh
Art/Design 1999 — 2000
National Vocational Award II
Additional Information
Brendan Carroll’s Groups:
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CGCHAR - 3D CG Character Animation -
Animation, Media & Entertainment -
Apple Macintosh -
2D & 3D Animators -
Animation Army -
Students of Animation -
Professional Maya Users -
Cryptarchy VFX -
Animation and Film Jobs
Brendan Carroll’s Honors:
Fjorg! SIGGRAPH 2009
Honorable Mention
President's List 2009
Outstanding GPA
Best of Ringling 2009:
Visual Development
Character Animation
Best of Ringling 2008:
Character Animation
Best of Ringling 2007:
Classical Character Animation
Brendan Carroll’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
