Chelsea Stebar
cstebar@gmail.com
Education
B.F.A.
degree candidate, Animation, Brigham
Young University
·
Expected Graduation Date: April 2013
·
Cumulative GPA: 3.89/4.0
Experience
Character Designer / Storyboard Artist / 2D
Animation Lead,
Butchered Meats (student
film), January 2010 – August 2010
·
Design main characters for translation into
both 3D and 2D animation
·
Produce rough animations in Adobe Flash
·
Manage and direct fellow students in
producing 2D animation
·
Create storyboards in accordance with established
look and feel
Storyboard Artist / Conceptual Designer, BYU Visual Arts department,
Storyboard Artist / Conceptual Designer, BYU Visual Arts department,
January
2009 – January 2010
·
Create storyboards for the short film Sisyphus directed by Kelly Loosli
·
Design locations, characters, and scenes,
resulting in a unified style
Animator, Flash Potatoes LLC, Provo UT, June 2008 – January 2009
·
Produce rough animations in Adobe Flash
·
Clean up existing rough animation, resulting
in finished products which can then be used in games, advertisements, and short
films
·
Create model sheets for existing characters
Skills
·
Visual Development: Created character designs, storyboards, and
other conceptual work for personal and group projects, working with both
traditional and digital media
·
Animation:
traditional 2D animation, Flash animation, character animation in Autodesk
Maya
·
Computer:
Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, Adobe Premier
·
Strengths: Highly effective at motivating and
managing team-members, comfortable consulting with clients to determine their
specific needs and priorities, able to grasp and apply new concepts quickly,
task-oriented and precise with high performance standards
Affiliations / Awards
·
Italy Rome Mission, The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints, September 2010 – April 2012
·
Visual Arts Talent Award Scholarship, Brigham
Young University
·
Phi Kappa Phi, BYU chapter
·
National Society of Collegiate Scholars