Sachiyo Watanabe Animator/Illustrator E-mail: info(at)crowanimation.com (Please change "(at)" to " @"  when you send emails to this address. Thank you.) Place of Birth : Michigan, USA Habitat : Yokohama city, Japan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SBMM, Buddiez, Tokyo, Japan Creator of "Tobe Nasu Rocket (The Eggplant Rocketship)" for Ohanashi Ehon Club(The Children't Book Club) Organized staffs, wrote script, designed illustration and animated characters Fall 2004 Crow Animation, Yokohama, Japan Crow's Teeny Tiny Exhibition Organized a personal exhibition at hair salons, Pas a Pas and Step by Step Spring 2004 Asahi Newspaper, Tokyo, Japan Feelance Illustrator for Asahi Weekly Created Illustrations for essays published on Asahi Weekly, the English Newspaper in Japan 2003- G-Creators, 10GAUGE, Tokyo, Japan Freelance Story Board Artist, Layout Artist, 2DAnimator for Project PAPO on WOWOW Worked on 4 story boards of 5 minute animation shorts Dealt with the whole process of production as Layout Artist, Tradiitional Animator, etc Performed as a translator between foreign CG artists and Japanese staffs 2003-2004 Sunrise, Eyedentify, Tokyo, Japan Freelace Animator, Motion Capture Operator for SD Gundam Force series on Cartoon Network Modified motion-captured data and created character animation using Filmbox Worked under tight deadlines, creating 25% of the 3D CG animation Performed as a liaison between a foreign CG artist and a Japanese director and other staffs Spring 2003 G-Creators, Tokyo, Japan Feelance Flash Animator for DigiGirl, the first flash-made animation TV series in Japan Created character animation, camera works using Flash Spring 2003 Dentsu Eye, Tokyo, Japan Freelance Animation Director for Merry X'mas Doromi, an animated short for Shinjuku MYLORD advertisement Created stories, designed and animated characters and backgrounds using After Effects Fall 2002 Nickelodeon Animation Studios, New York, NY Senior Digital Animator for Little Bill, a top-rated preschool TV show Animated multiple-character scenes, using 2D puppets in After Effects and PhotoShop Worked under tight deadlines with extremely specific requirements Guided Junior animators and fellow animators to finesse their animatio Freelance Coordinator and Translator for interviews by Animage, Tokuma Shoten's Magazine Translated from English to Japanese and vice versa for interviews regardin Nickelodeon's production system Worked closely with Nickelodeon's press department 2000-2002 NHK, Studio Zero, Tokyo, Japan Claymation Assistant for Petit Petit Anime, an educational preschool show from the largest broadcasting company in Japan Attended to daily operations of Studio Zero, Shinichi Suzukifs animation studio Created cute 3D clay characters and background sets; coordinated shooting Spring 1999 SQUARE Soft, Tokyo, Japan 3D CG Animation Intern for Final Fantasy VIII, a successful video game for PlayStation Animated live-action style movements of 3D CG characters using Soft Image 1998-1999

EDUCATION

Tokyo University Contents Program, Tokyo, Japan Learning how to become a producer Fall 2004- New York University Continuing Education Program, New York, NY Gained proficiency in Maya's basic 3D CG functions Fall 2001 Keio University Graduate School of Media & Governance, Tokyo, Japan Master's Degree, GPA: 2.6/3.0 Final Project: Thesis on Character Animation 1997-1999 Brown University, Providence, RI Exchange Student, Film Study 1997-1998 Keio University, Tokyo, Japan BA in Environmental Information, GPA: 2.8/3.0 Gained proficiency in basic computer science and computer art. Final Project: Interactive Picture Book 1993-1997

SKILLS

Computer: After Effects, Photoshop, Filmbox, Flash, Final Cut Pro, Maya, Soft Image, Illustrator, Premiere, Director, Animation Master, Hypertoon, Media100 MSWord, Quark, C programming, HTML, on Mac, PC, UNIX Language: Fluent in Japanese, English

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