Kim Hagen

Owner and founder of Hagen Illustration aps.
A full range creative and artistic source, located in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hagen Illustration aps provides material for advertising, animation, computergames, the internet ,book and comic-book publishers..

Furthermore Hagen Illustration aps provides consulting, specially designed courses and lectures for a variety of advertising, corporate and institutional clientele.
Kim Hagen, has a background in high level classical animation and several years of experience as an illustrator and comic-book artist working with a lot of different styles.

Hagen Illusration images use a wide network of selected freelance artists with eksperience in animation 2d and 3d, web design, colouring, illustration and scriptwriting. Incorporating experience with creativity, craft and expertise Hagen Illustration aps creates high quality visuals.

Kim Hagen’s Specialties:

Animation: Storyboard, visuel developmant, directing.
Illustration: Imaginative, comicbookstyle, commercial.
Teaching: Visual storytelling, drawing, animation.

Kim Hagen’s Experience

Storyboardartist, art director

Radarfilm

(Animation industry)

May 2009 — Present (3 months)

Storyboard and art direction on music video promoting DR's new childrens channel "Ramasjang"
Education development

The Animation Workshop

(Educational Institution; Animation industry)

May 2009 — Present (3 months)

Creating currigulum and cource decriptions for the new education in Graphic Narritive. (Tegneserieuddannelsen)
A 4 year bachelor education.
Head examiner

The Animation Workshop

(Educational Institution; Animation industry)

2007 — Present (2 years)
Teacher/ Consultant

The animation workshop

(Animation industry)

1995 — Present (14 years)
Owner

Hagen Illustration aps.

(Animation industry)

1994 — Present (15 years)

Hagen Illustration aps. is a full range creative and artistic source that provides material for advertising, animation, computergames, the internet ,book and comic-book publishers.
Storyboard artist

Scopas medien AG

(Animation industry)

November 2008 — February 2009 (4 months)

Thunboards, story and idea development.
Head of storyboard

Radarfilm

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

2006 — 2008 (2 years)

The Discoworms, a 70 min. 3D animated feature. (2006 - 2008) Besides bieng head of storyboard on this project, iam involved in character-design and artdirection.
Character design on Mikisoq

A-Film

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Illustrator

Novo Nordisk

(Animation industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Storyboard artist

Klausen + Partners

(Animation industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Illustrator

Alinea

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year)
Design and Illustration.

Serious Games interactive

(Entertainment industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year)
Guest teacher

National Film School of Denmark

(Animation industry)

2000 — 2006 (6 years)
Animator, story artist on Barda 1

easy film

(Animation industry)

2005 — 2006 (1 year)
Storyboard artist

A film a/s

(Animation industry)

2002 — 2006 (4 years)

Trollstroy (still in development.)The Ugly Duckling and ME (2005); Asterix and the Vikings (2006).
Game devlopment

Kudos

(Animation industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year)
Artist

Pinligt Selskab

(Animation industry)

1994 — 2002 (8 years)
Head of Special Effects

A film a/s

(Animation industry)

1988 — 2002 (14 years)

Thumbelina, A troll in centrall Park, Junglejack II, Help iam a fish!
Illustrator

Forlaget Benjamin

(Animation industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years)
Artist

Courage

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

1994 — 2000 (6 years)

Tim Timebuster. A continued comicbook story running in Lego klick magazine spanning over 100 pages.
This included script, design, and all artwork.
Character design

Søren Tomas Film

(Animation industry)

1995 — 1995 (less than a year)
Animator

A film a/s

(Animation industry)

1991 — 1993 (2 years)

Ferngully: the Last Rainforest; (1991), Once upon a Forest;(1992), Jungle Jack; (1993)
Character-animator

Sullivan Bluth Studios

(Animation industry)

1988 — 1991 (3 years)

All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989); Rock-A-Doodle (1990); A Troll in Central Park (1991);
Animator

Swan film

(Animation industry)

1985 — 1988 (3 years)

Valhalla (1986), Quarkshorts tv series;(1988)