Georgia Read-Smith

2D Rigger

g.rs96@hotmail.com

www.georgiareadsmith.co.uk


Experience

Blinkink / Disney Series TBA - Mid Rigger - November 2023 - Present 

Rigging Various Characters, Redresses Props and Cutouts. 


Dog Ears / 2D Series TBA - Lead Technical Animator - April 2023 - November 2023

Leading a team of Junior Technical Animators in providing fixes and exporting rendered scene files for Compositing. 

Organising Comp Assets with Art Director / Compositing Supervisor.

BlinkInk / Disney Series Pitch TBA - BreakDown Artist- March 2022 

Provided 3 characters worth of breakdowns. 

Dog Ears / 2D Series TBA - Lead Scene Build Artist - December 2021 - April 2023

Leading a team of junior artists in the creation of scenes for delivery.

Reviewing and Amending artists work.

Liaising with Scene Build Supervisor and Production.

Attending Director reviews and overseeing changes.

Requesting and checking assets from departments.

BlinkInk / Netflix - Toonboom Harmony Generalist on “DeadEndia” October 2021 - December 2021

Supporting Pipeline Director in Toonboom onboarding and troubleshooting.

Rig fixes and amendments.

Scene Build and Design assistance.


BlinkInk / Netflix - Junior Rigger on “DeadEndia” May 2020 - October 2021

Rigged various assets including Props, Cutouts, B Models, Secondary Characters, Character Redresses and Breakdowns. 

Also assisted in Character/Prop Design and Scene Build departments during downtime. 


BlueZoo / Scouting for Girls - Rigger on “Let's Not Go Away” November 2019

Created Props and Character Rig for Music Video.


BlueZoo - Scene Build Artist on “It’s Pony” March 2019 - May 2020

Organising assets and created Harmony scenes for Animation.

Assisted Rigging on creating props.

Created organisational Excel Documents to assist team members.

Liaised with Animation Leads, Paint, Rigging and Production.


Little Squid Media “A Friend of My Own” June 2018 - August 2018 

Freelance ToonBoom Animator.


Beyond Local Digital Agency October 2017 -  April 2018

Illustrator Asset creator for Mastercard training videos.


“The Red String” Graduate Film September 2016 - May 2017 

Producer, Character Designer and ToonBoom Animator.



Toon Boom Harmony Rigging Bootcamp - Boulder Media May 2017 - June 2017

Attended Bootcamp where I learnt the fundamentals of Rigging for a 2D Production.


Software

ToonBoom Harmony Premium

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Excel

Ftrack

ShotGun/ShotGrid

Apple/Windows operating Systems

Education

Arts University Bournemouth

2:1 Ba ( Hons) Animation Production 2014 - 2017


Reference available on request