James A. Mitchell
Story Artist
- Role
- Senior Illustrator and Imagineer at Art Directors Guild
- Location
- Culver City, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About James A. Mitchell
Digital Storyboard Illustrator and Concept Design Consultant.traditionally trained at Walt Disney School of Animation -with Eric Larsen and Walt Stanchfield-Specalizing in Natural History and Animal anatomy.Designer, Storyboards for feature film and Entertainment Concept Design.Photoshop Illustration, Maya and Cinema 4D After Effects animation.Former Partnership and Associate Art Director with a Venice, Calif. Show Design company for 6 years, and working in Game design, Interactive storyboards, and animation in Alias 3D software 19••••97. Maya 2007Illustrated numerous SCUBA training textbooks and periodicals for PADI and NAUI -Intenational SCUBA certification organizations from 19••••84 Specialties: Storyboard Digital Illustrator and Concept Designer. Quick Sketch artist and Plein Air painter.Pencil and Pen, taught Digital Storyboards for StudioArts.com in.Adobe Photoshop, also versatile in Adobe Illustrator, Sketchup 3D, Maya and Cinema 4D R13, and 2D animation in After Effects.
Experience
Senior Illustrator and Imagineer
Mar 2004 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US
Traditional and Advanced Digital Art for film and Theme Parks
Education
University of California, Riverside
none, Graphic Arts and Photography
1976 — 1976
Santa Monica College
Entertainment Technology-continuing ed- Maya Character rigging and Animation
2005 — 2007
Riverside City College
certificate, Photography, Biology and Graphic Design
1971 — 1974
Disney School of Animation 1980
Animation and Story
1980 — 1986
California State University, Fullerton
BA, Illustration and Biology
1976 — 1979
Skills
- Traditional Animation
- Mac
- Maya
- After Effects
- Photoshop
- Sketchup
- Multimedia
- Adobe Photoshop
- Video Games
- Feature Films
- Character Animation
- Television
- Adobe Illustrator
- Digital Illustration
- Graphics
- Sketching
- Drawing
- Visual Effects
- Compositing
- Comics
- Conceptual Art
- Film
- Computer Animation
- Illustrator
- Digital Painting
- Directing
- Game Design
- Character Rigging
- Concept Design
- Game Development
- Concept Art
- Painting
- Cartoons
- 3d
- Animation
- Storyboarding
- Illustration
- Pre-Production
- Cinema 4d
- Computer Graphics
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