This is the portfolio of Clarke Snyder, an experienced, professional animation artist specializing in creating production ready background paintings, concept art & visual development pieces.
Please hire him to work on cool stuff.
Had some down time today, so I was practicing doing some vis-dev type painting to help build my portfolio in the hope of one day working in features.
Expect more of this type of thing to start showing up here.
I am an experienced, professional animation artist specializing in creating production ready background paintings, concept art & visual development pieces.
I use a Cintiq in conjunction with the following tools to create production ready designs and artwork: Photoshop, Sketchbook Pro, Painter, Flash & Illustrator along with various traditional media.
BG Layout-Tom &Jerry (Freelance)
March 2013 – Present (3 months)
Also doing some incidental character designs for the show.
Background Designer/Painter (Community)
September 2012 – September 2012 (1 month)Hollywood, CA
Designed & painted all of the background artwork for several short animated segments to appear in the upcoming season 4 premiere of NBC’s Community.
Background Painter (Motorcity)
July 2011 – July 2012 (1 year 1 month)Hollywood, CA
Painting 2-3 digital backgrounds per day in Photoshop using a Cintiq for season one of the new Disney XD series, Motorcity (20 episodes).
June 2008 – April 2010 (1 year 11 months)
Oversaw and assisted teams of artists and animators comprised of in-house staff, interns, freelance artists working off site as well as overseas service studios for a variety of productions.
Project/Client Highlights:
Dora & Diego’s 3D/4D Adventure (3D Stereoscopic Animation) – Nickelodeon/Simex Iwerks
Ben 10: Alien Swarm (Visual Development & Pre-Production) – Cartoon Network/Turner
Green Lantern (3D Animation) – Warner Bros./DC Comics
Blue Beetle (3D Animation) – Warner Bros./DC Comics
Penguins of Madagascar (3D Stereoscopic Animation Test) – Dreamworks
Journey to Madagascar (3D Animation & Creative Direction) – Dreamworks/Universal/RWS
Donkey-Live! (3D Animation & Interactive Character) - Dreamworks/Universal/RWS
Flight of the Dragon (3D Animation) – OCT Films
