Jessica Coate

Charlotte, NC

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Who are your role models?

Jim Henson and Wonder Woman.

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Work history

Southern Risk November 2006 to January 2009
Marketing Coordinator

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How would you describe your time at Southern Risk?

Designed and created flyers, ads, brochures and tradeshow booths. Brought marketing campaign from infancy to completion. Website and direct email blast design using html and CSS. Designed promotional items. Photo retouching.
Glueworks Animation - The Film Foundry September 2005 to November 2006
Layout & Lighting Animation Artist

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How would you describe your time at Glueworks Animation - The F...?

Layout design of animation sequences and shots. Animation of key poses. Lighting of characters, backgrounds and props for scenes. Worked on 3 Hermie and Friends animated features.
Technical Director of Animation

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How would you describe your time at Norman Lear - Let's Go Voti...?

Built characters in Maya and created expressions and walk cycles. Manipulated
ramps and textures. Worked on the animated portion of the video to help get graduating high school students to register to vote.
Chiodo Bros. - Clay for Disney September 2002 to October 2002
Fabrication Department Intern

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How would you describe your time at Chiodo Bros. - Clay for Disney?

Built armatures, molds and clay models for Disney's stop-motion animation show, Clay. Painted and built props for sets and performed basic carpentry work. Digital clean-up and frame-by-frame selection of characters in Photoshop.
Comedy Central - South Park Television February 2002 to May 2005
Technical Director of Animation

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How would you describe your time at Comedy Central - South Park...?

Built characters, props and backgrounds in Maya. Used ramps and textures. Created expressions on sliders for characters props and backgrounds.
Comedy Central - South Park Television September 2001 to February 2002
Lip Sync Department Supervisor

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How would you describe your time at Comedy Central - South Park...?

Supervised a team of artists for lip sync animation in Maya.
Kaplan Test Prep August 2000 to February 2002
Marketing Production Coordinator

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How would you describe your time at Kaplan Test Prep?

Created flyers, ads and mailers for offices in 15 states. Negotiated contracts with newspapers and oversaw ad delivery. Developed detailed media plans with regional marketing directors.
Assistant Animator / Lip Sync Artist

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How would you describe your time at Paramount Pictures - South ...?

Lip sync animation in Alias Wavefront on a feature film for Paramount Pictures. Edited audio into frames. Recorded phonetics onto sound sheets.
Comedy Central - South Park Television August 1998 to September 2001
Assistant Animator / Lip Sync Artist

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How would you describe your time at Comedy Central - South Park...?

Lip sync animation in Maya. Recorded phonetics on sound sheets.
Jim Henson Interactive July 1997 to November 1997
Animation Intern

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How would you describe your time at Jim Henson Interactive?

Conceptualized styles and ideas with a team of creative artists. Drew in-betweens and walk cycles for Muppet Babies. Digital ink and paint.
CBS Television - Eyemark Entertainment February 1997 to July 1997
Graphic Design Intern

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How would you describe your time at CBS Television - Eyemark En...?

Assisted in photo shoots. Designed billboards and magazine ads.
sony music July 1995 to December 1995
Graphic Design Intern

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How would you describe your time at sony music?

Scanned art and photos. Aided in design and layout of CD artwork.

Education

2007 PDF Conference - Orlando, FL May 2007 to June 2007
Design, Web, and Interactive tracks

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How would you describe your time at 2007 PDF Conference - Orlan...?

Sessions in PDF User, Web Publishing, Interactive and Design tracks. Pre- and post-conference sessions in Dreamweaver CS3 and Flash CS3.
Fabrication of Muppet-style puppets

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How would you describe your time at Puppet-making Workshop with...?

Eight-week class taught by Sesame Street puppet designer, Michael Earl, on production and creation of Muppet-style puppets.
University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) September 1994 to June 1998
Graphic Design

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How would you describe your time at University of California - ...?

University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, CA | 94-98
Bachelor of Arts, Graphic Design - June 1998
Additional studies in drawing, photography, sculpture and animation.

Jessica's Network

West McAdams
Jim Friedl
Systems Analyst,
CRC Insurance Ser...

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Recommendations

West McAdams
West McAdams

Jessica is a brilliant designer who does not mind putting in long hours to get the job done. I would highly recommend her to anyone. She has many talents from promotional gift designs, trade show booths, web pages with CSS, print design and advertising

Jim Friedl
Jim Friedl
Systems Analyst at CRC Insurance Services

Jessica is a wonderfully creative and talented individual. We worked together reinventing and rebuilding Southern Risk's website. Jessica provided the design via HTML and CSS demo pages, and I then applied it to our web application code. In addition to the great work she did with me on the website, she was also responsible for HTML email marketing, as well as traditional print marketing. Jessica handled all of these things with care and speed and I can easily recommend her work.

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