Director Design

Fred Beeman

Los Angeles, CA

818-***-**** **********@*****.*** fredbeeman.com

A collaborative, innovative storyteller focused on illustration. A dedicated artist flexible in media, technology, and subject matter.

Core Skills

• Storyboarding

• Background Illustration

• 3D animation

• 2D animation

• Character development

• Set design

• Background design

• Color design

• Character sketching

• Photo retouching

Software

Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Flash, Corel Painter, Sketchbook Pro, Microsoft Office Suite, Maya

Work Experience

Freelance animator 2010 to present

• Drove artistic vision for multiple commissioned animated short films (2D)

• Developed and refined storyboards based on client feedback

• Partnered with screenwriter to develop characters, action, backgrounds

• Prepared all digital assets for upload (color correction, cropping, formatting)

• Maintained graphics archive

Lighting technician Lincoln Theater, 2007-2010

• Collaborated with Lighting director to develop light design

• Rigged lighting set and ran light board for off-broadway and community theatre productions

• Optimized lighting schema based upon director and producer feedback

Stage Director Dark Room Productions, 2005-2007

Suburbia Fetterly Playhouse

Glaciers on the Sun Fetterly Playhouse

Vehement Disregard for Taste Fetterly Playhouse

Announcer GT Ultralights/Six Flags Marine World, 2002-2004

• Announced a dive show four times a day for a live audience

Actor 1997-2002

Waiting for Godot Pozzo Dreamweavers Theatre

King Lear Oswald Darkroom Productions

Midsummer Night’s Dream Bottom Solano Repertory

Resident Alien Ray The Foothill Theatre Co.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile Freddy Solano College Theatre

Speed the Plow Bobby Ghould Solano Repertory Company

Suburbia Buff Solano Repertory Company

Little Shop of Horrors Audrey 2 Solano College Theatre

Jesus Christ Superstar Judas Solano College Theatre

The Caine Mutiny Court Marshal Merrick Front Row Theatre

Assassins The Balladeer ACT Summer Workshop

The Three Stooges Curley Cal Arts One Act Festival

Education

• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration, The Academy of Art University, May 2010

• Advanced Actor’s Training Program, California Institute of the Arts, 1993-1995

• Actor’s Training Program, Solano Community College Graduate 1993

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