Curriculum Vitae- Mark Marren
Contact:
e-mail: mmarren@lycos.com
or mark_marren@hotmail.com
online portfolio https://mmarren.tripod.com/
job positions sought:
Storyboard Artist, Layout
Supervisor, Layout Artist,
Location Designer, Overseas Supervisor
Work History:
(most recent first)
Trapeze Animation PEI Canada
June 2004/present
Location Design/ Storyboard
English for Vietnam (language instruction series)
Trixter Animation GMBH
Munich Germany Feb/
May 2004
Freelance storyboard for commercials
Spider-Eye Productions
UK
feb/mar 2003
Storyboard, Design (freelance)
various pilot projects
Time Lapse Pictures, Athens
jul 2002/ jan 2003
Layout Artist
The Rugrats Go Wild (Klasky Csupo)
Hahn Film Gmbh
Berlin Germany
july2001/ apr 2002
Layout Supervision, Storyboard
SimsalaGrimm Feature
Overseas
Layout Supervision (China) Altair TV series
Storyboard
Artist Gnarfs TV series
Nelvana Productions
Toronto Canada
nov 2000/ may 2001
Storyboard (freelance) Cyberchase TV
series
Funbag Animation
oct 2000
Ottawa Ontario
Storyboard (freelance)
Watership Down TV series
Uli Meyer Animation
jul 1999/ apr 2000
London UK
Director Lampies
TV series
DreamWorks Feature Animation
apr/nov 1999
Los Angeles
Sequence Layout, Location Design (freelance)
The Road to
El Dorado feature
Klasky Csupo Animation
july 1998/ mar 1999
Los Angeles
Layout
Supervisor, Workbook Supervisor The Rugrats Movie I
DreamWorks Feature Animation
feb/may 1997
Los Angeles
Workbook
and Layout Prince of Egypt feature
Henson's Creature Shop
feb/mar 1997
Preliminary
Storyboard Animal Farm Feature
(live action/animatronic)
Uli Meyer Features
jan 1996/ jan 1997
London UK
Sequence
Layout, Workbook Space Jam feature
Layout , Storyboard and Design _ various commercial projects
Games Animation
jun1994/
may 1995
Los Angeles
Storyboard, Layout, Overseas Supervisor (Korea)
The Ren and Stimpy Show
Amblin Animation
London UK
Sequence Layout, Location Design, Balto feature
oct1994
Layout Artist, We're Back feature
sep 1992/ mar 1993
Layout Supervisor, Fievel Goes West feature
oct 1989/ jun 1990
Trickompany Gmbh Hamburg
aug1993 /jan 1994
Layout
Supervisor Felidae feature
Pacific Rim Productions
Manila
jun/dec 1992
Overseas
Layout Supervisor Super Mario Brothers TV series
Hanna Barbera Animation
jul 1994/ jan1995
Los Angeles
aug 1985/ jan 1986
Overseas
Layout Supervisor (Manila) Droopy TV series
Overseas Layout Supervisor (Taiwan) various TV series projects
Animation House
apr 1985/ jun 1986
Toronto Ontario
Layout Artist/ Storyboard Artist
various commercial projects
Nelvana
aug1984/ mar1985
Toronto Ontario Canada
feb 1986/ jul 1986
Layout, Layout Supervision,Character Design
Design Supervision,and Storyboard on
various series projects including:
the Care Bears Movies I.II,III
Babar TV series The
Babar Movie
Droids, Ewoks, Ducktales, Babar etc.
Education
Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology
1980-1982
Oakville Ont. Canada
Classical Animation Studies
-
Toronto School of Art
jun/dec 1990
Toronto Ontario
Figure Drawing
-
Birkbeck College, London
sep/dec 1995
Introductory Screenwriting
Teaching/Seminars
Wang Film Productions Taiwan
1986
upgraded existing layout crew to 'Disney' production
standards for Ducktales TV series
in a 10 week on the job training course with two other instructors
Fil-Cartoons Manila
1994
trained a new crew of layout artists to series animation standards
final test project was a 15 minute film for UNICEF India
introducing the 'Meena' character
Klasky Csupo Los Angeles
1998/1999
on the job training- raised Layout crews training
to feature standards during production of
Rugrats Movie 1
Animation Seminar series
1999
Academy of Arts Institute San Francisco
4 day-long seminars on Animation Layout, Composition
