Gerrard Southam
CURRICULUM VITAE
About Me
Dedicated to producing high-end quality animation productions.
Able to adapt to new environments and workplaces.
Passionate, with a lifelong love of animation and storytelling.
An effective worker under pressure.
A good listener and communicator.
Excellent understanding of production pipeline.
Professional Info
Work Experience
Animal Logic - Sydney
2015 - present
Senior Layout Artist, Lego Batman, Senior Previs Peter Rabbit, Senior Layout Artist
Ninjago.
Storm Vision Entertainment - Sydney
2014 - 2015
Lead Previsualization on Sfv1 Feature Film (The Osiris Child)
Blackbird Studios - Sydney
2015
3D Generalist for range of commercial clients.
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)- Sydney
2014
Lecturer in 2nd Year Animation Program.
Flying Bark Productions - Sydney
2013
Senior Layout Artist on The Adventures of Blinky Bill
Weta Digital -Wellington
2010 - 2012
Pre-visualization Artist on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The
Desolation of Smaug and The Adventures of Tintin
Frontier Animation Studios - Auckland
2012
Produced and wrote animated pilot for online Webseries 'Frontier: The Rising Shadow'
Nabee Productions - Auckland
2012
Creative Director, produced top selling Interactive iPad Book, 'My Sister's Not Like Other
Sister's'
The Third Floor - Los Angeles
2007 - 2009
Previsualization Artist on Alice in Wonderland, G- Force, Command and Conquer Red
Alert, Star Craft 2, Lotus Caves, Zorro Reborn, Performance capture for Iron Man 2.
Walt Disney Pictures/ Walden Media - Los Angeles / Prague
2006 - 2007
Senior Previsualization artist on The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Animal Logic - Sydney
2005
Pre-visualization and Animation with TV and Film division on Adidas 'What's Inside'
Oliver Stone's Untitled 'World Trade Center' feature film. Visual effects artist on
commercials for Toyota, Adidas, Energizer, Coreg, Optus, Kellogs and Kraft foods.
Walt Disney Pictures/ Walden Media - Auckland
2004
Pre-visualization Artist on Academy Award Nominated 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The
Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.'
Carrottop Pictures - Auckland
2003
Title and Animation design for commercials for: New Zealand All Blacks, Loreal
commercial, TV sports show 'Coach'
Butobase - Auckland
2001
Designed motion graphics for the title sequence for Sky Sport TV series ‘The Fish 'n' the Fury’
Halsey Street - Auckland
2000
Pre-visualization and 3D animation for 'Agent Ani ' TV series
Flux - Auckland
1998
Layout for overseas animation projects, colouring and designing children’s books.
Murray Freeth Animation - Christchurch
1997
Work experience as assistant animator on “Cumie the Cloud”
Freelance Animators
1997
Commissioned to work on American production of “Charlie Brown” and on “Eta
Ripples Sports explosion” commercial, clean-up and assistant animator.
Education
UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand 1999 - 2002
Bachelor Visual Communication and Design, Majoring in Vis Com.
Freelance Art School (now Animation College) 1996-1997
National Cert. in Character Animation
Software
Autodesk Maya
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere
Adobe Illustrator
Toon Boom Animation
Adobe Flash US Animation 2d3 Boujou
Skills
Character Animation
Post Visualization
Tracking
Design
Lip Syncing
Basic Compositing
Basic Modeling
Perfomance Capture Motion Capture
Data Clean Up
Character Design
2D Cartoon Animation Feature Film and Short Film Acting
On Set Supervising Screenplay writing
Team Supervision
Awards
2012 Part of the team nominated for Academy Award for best Visual Effects on The
Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
2011 Part of the team nominated for Academy Award for best Visual Effects on Alice in
Wonderland.
2005 Part of the team nominated for Academy Award for best Visual Effects on The
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Waredrobe.
2005 Finalist in Australian Digital Media awards for Best Music Video for 67 Special
'Walking Away'
2000 Winner of the Panprint Calendar Design Awards
1997 Winner of Auckland Comic Design Competition