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December 2025 - Present
Fukumoto Media - Full Time - Director, Filmmaker, Video Editor, Compositor 
Live Photo Films

Using a little film magic, I bring my clients' old personal photos to life and create films out of them which tell a story and can be used for a variety of life events and situations.

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December 2025 - January 2026

Fukumoto Media - Part Time  - Designer, Animator, Live Action Video Editor, Compositor (As a 2nd job)
LilyPad Music Video
For a children's live action music video, I am designing, rigging, animating, video editing and compositing live action footage to interact with my animaton as well as creating animated cut scenes.
 

 

​December 2025 - January 2026

Lev Gleason - Part Time Motion Graphics Animator

Animated Comic Books - As an animator, it was my job to find interesting ways to bring comic book pages to life.

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August 2025 - December 2025

Pip Animation - Full Time Harmony Animator (As a 2nd job)

Confidential TV Show:  
Animated a famous TV show with celebrity voices using Toon Boom Harmony.

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March 2025 - December 2025

Sphere Media - Full Time Harmony Animator

Saving Me
Animated a high budget sci fi series:  Saving Me.​​​​​

 

 

 

​July 2025 - July 2025
Fukumoto Media - Part Time Director, Animator, Video Editor, Compositor     (As a 2nd job)

Animated Personal Film Project:

Over a 3 week period, (part time hours) I created a 2 minute film from scratch using a hand-drawn animatic / traditional animation and motion graphics style, which celebrated my clients 10 year anniversary. It was a montoge of amazing artistically drawn out memories to music.

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​February 2024 - December 2025

Treehouse Republic Ireland - Full Time Lead Animator

Tuttle Twins
As a lead animator, aside from animation quota, it's my job to find solutions for animation and technical Toon Boom Harmony problems other animators are having.  I help to keep the team on track and mentored the team in applying the principles of animation and efficiency tricks.

 

 

 

​April 2024 - June 2025

Loogaroo Animation - Part Time Freelance Animator (As a 2nd job)

Feeli Tout - Senior Flash Animator
La Brigade - Senior Flash Animator

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​​September 2023 - April 2025
MTM, College of Animation, Art and Design - College Professor (As a 2nd job) 

-Animation Professor - 2nd year Toon Boom Animation - Taught the 2nd year Toon Boom Harmony course.

-Classical Animation Workshop - Lead a 10 week online classical animation workshop to students across Canada and the US.

-Animation Professor -  1st year Classical Animation Course - I taught Classical Animation using Toon Boom Harmony.

 

 

 

​​​January 2020 - February 2024

Jam Filled Entertainment Toronto - Full time Senior Animator

Loud House Season 8 - Senior Harmony Animator

Vida the Vet - Senior Harmony Animator

Clone High Reboot  - Senior Harmony Animator

We Lost Our Human  - Senior Harmony Animator

Final Space Season 3  - Senior Harmony Animator

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December 2023 - April 2024

Taqqut Productions - Freelance Senior Animator (As a 2nd job)

Tuktu

Animated the Tuktu TV show using Toon Boom Harmony

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June 2023

Sphere Media Productions - Freelance Senior Animator (As a 2nd job)

Riley Rocket

Animated Riley Rocket using Toon Boom Harmony

 

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March 2022

Industrial Brothers - Freelance Senior Animator  (As a 2nd job)

Reece Witherspoon Advertisement

Animated an advertisement for Reece Witherspoon

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February 2022 - May 2023

Brownbag Films / 9 Story - Freelance Senior Animator  (As a 2nd job)

Sago Mini Friends   - Senior Harmony Animator

Lu and the Bally Bunch   - Senior Harmony Animator

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January 2016 - November 2020
Portfolio Entertainment - Animation Supervisor / Designer 

Mini Cops Promo Video - Animated, Designed, Supervised and instructed junior animators.

Full time Senior Animator 

Hero Elementary - Senior Harmony Animator

Bravest Warrior  - Senior Harmony Animator

Hot Streets - Senior Harmony Animator

Moofaloo Pilot - Senior Harmony Animator
Cat In the Hat Knows a Lot About That - Senior Harmony Animator

Doki - Senior Harmony Animator 

 

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July 2019

The Animation Lounge - Instructor (As a 2nd job)

-Instructed a 2 day Toon Boom Harmony workshop for a mix of amateur and professional students.  

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Mar 2018

Toon Boom Animation Inc.  (As a 2nd job)

Software Consultant - Advised Toon Boom Animation over a few months in written documents about the pros and cons of Adobe Animate Vs. Toon Boom Harmony. Gave suggestions on new tools and animation workflow ideas for Harmony, some of which are used by everyone in the industry today.

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Oct 2012 - 2017
MTM College - College Instructor   (As a 2nd job)

2014-2017 Flash Animation Professor 2nd years - I play the 'Show Director' roll as I guide the class of students through the interesting process of designing, rigging and animating an entire animation scene from scratch, which includes a background, a rigged and animated character of themselves (with a theme) and their own voice acting with lipsyncs. 

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2013 Film Class 3rd years - Instructed the 3rd Year's 2D computer Animation Film Project class.

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2012 Animation Workshop for students and professionals - Instructed a 5 day intensive Flash Animation workshop for a class of students in the animation program who were looking to refine and master their Flash Animation skills.

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July 2016-August 2016
Yowsa Animation - Freelance Flash Animator  (As a 2nd job)

Welcome to the Wayne

As a second job, I animated a small weekly quota. 

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September 2014 - December 2015
Guru Studio - Full time Senior Harmony Animator
Ever After High Movie - Dragon Games - Senior Harmony Animator

Ever After High Movie - Epic Winter  - Senior Harmony Animator

Ever After High Movie - Way Too Wonderland  - Senior Harmony Animator

Ever After High - Youtube Shorts  - Senior Harmony Animator

Animated a weekly quota in the popular Netflix  / Youtube series: Ever After High using Toonboom Harmony.

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September 2014 - November 2015
Smiley Guy Studios - Freelance Senior Animator  (As a 2nd job)
Chirp

Completed 20-30 seconds per week of freelance animation in my spare time on 'Chirp' which airs on CBC Kids.

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July 2013 - September 2014
Smiley Guy Studios - Full time Senior Animator, Prop Designer, Background Painter
Teleporting Fat Guy - Character animator for YouTube webisodes.
Warren United - Responsible for animating shots on a new high quality sitcom.
My Little Pony- Rigged, added designs and animated pony characters for a television toy commercial
Micheal and Trevors Round Up - Designed and painted backgrounds, designed and animated characters for this mobile game.
Get to the Game -  Designed a side scrolling level background 6000 pixels wide and 4 levels tall for a mobile game.
True Colours - Designed the layout and buttons for this mobile phone app.
Captain Canuck Webisode - Post production using After Effects for episode 1.

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March 2014 
Empty Cup Media - Freelance Classical Animator (Flash)  (As a 2nd job)
Film Project - Designed and classically animated a raven flap cycle that would be used in a live action documentary film.

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December 2014 
Echo Bridge Pictures - Freelance Classical Animator (Flash)  (As a 2nd job)
Axe Cop - Classically animated shots for Axe Cop.

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December 2014 
SwiftKICX Solutions / Avery Daniel Animation Project - Freelance Designer / Rigger/ Animator  (As a 2nd job)
-Creating an animated advertisement for Staples Business Depot products.

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November 2013
Children's Book Animated Advertisement - Freelance Director / Designer / Animator / Sound editor / Post Production - 6 minute animated childrens book  (As a 2nd job)
Purpose Finds His Gift - Completed a short animated film based on a children's book by author Janet Campbell

-Directed
-Consulted
-Animated
-Composited
-Sound edited

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March 2013 - July 2013
Elliot Animation - Full time Character Animator and Revisionist  
Grojband - Responsible for fixing design and animation problems with other animators shots and also animating new shots from scratch.

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May 2012 - Feb 2013
Vast Studios - Lead Game and Cinematics Animator
'Time Relics, Gears of Light'
'Dark Canvas, a Brush with Death'
'Strange Discoveries, Aurora Peak'
-Responsible for training new animators in Flash animation and working with a game engine.
-Responsible for designing storyboards and animatics to show how the cinematics throughout the game will play out
-Orgainizing with the art team what art assets need to be created for the game cinematics.
-Animating cinematics using Photoshop, Flash and After Effects.
-Animating game play animation using Flash and Pyro.
-Occasionally photoshopped additional artwork to improve my animation.
-Participated in boardroom meetings with other department leads.
-Overseeing that other animators are staying on track and that all animations are meeting deadlines.

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Nov 2012
SwiftKICX Solutions / Avery Daniel Animation Project - Freelance Animator  (As a 2nd job)
Staples Business Depot Advertisement  
-Created assets using photoshop
-Flash Animator
-Alter the programming on buttons to link to a new website
-Swapped out images, text and programming link to a French version

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Oct 2012 - Nov 2012  (As a 2nd job)
SwiftKICX Solutions /

Advertisement  Dream Tower at Emerald City Condo 
-Completed the job of rotating a supplied 3D condo on a loop and making interactive start and stop buttons for Elad Canada.
-Subcontracted and directed a 3D Maya modelling expert when some 3D Maya editing was needed for the Tower.

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Sept 2012 - October 2012
Kafiya Meets the Moon Project   (As a 2nd job)
Kafiya Meets the Moon -Completed a short animated film from a few pages of author Janet Campbell's children's book
-Directed
-Consulted
-Storyboards and animatics
-Animation
-Composited
-Sound edited

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April 2012 - June 2012

Afrodelik Designs  (As a 2nd job)

Advertising Animated Commercial
-Completed an advertising commercial / short film for my client through some basic concept character designs that I was supplied with.
-Directing
-Storyboards and Animatics
-Character and background designs
-Animation
-Compositing 
-Sound editing

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Dec 2011 -  May 2012
Original Pictures - Director, Character-Prop-BG designer, Animator, Video Editor  
Whats Your News

Successfully managed my own 2D animation department.  The final weekly product was a 25 second long

animated short for every 22 minute episode where my animated characters would pantomime the news stories that the live action children would tell.
Director
Character design
Background design
Prop design
Video editing of live action, 3D animation and my 2D animations using Final Cut Pro

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August 2011 - December 2011
Smiley Guy Studios - Full time Animator
Skatoony season 2 

Animated a weekly quota. 

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February 2011- August 2011
Big Jump Productions - Full time Classical Animator (Flash)
Ugly Americans Season 2 

Animated a weekly quota. 

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November 2010 - November 2010
Studio NX - Freelance Animator  (As a 2nd job)
Fish Head Steve - Between myself, an animator in Toronto and an animator in the UK, we successfully completed a 45 second

trailer for a new animated series. 

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August 2010 - October 2010
Solis Animation Studios (Classical Animator)  
Ugly Americans Season 1 - Classically animated new shots.  Fixed animation on existing shots.  Designed and painted new backgrounds and Characters.

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January 2009 - June 2010
Smiley Guy Studios - Full time Animator
The Dating Guy Season 1 - Flash Animator
The Dating Guy Season 2 - Flash Animator
Skatoony - Flash Animator
Tooned -  Flash Animator

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​October 2009 - October 2009
Echo Bridge Pictures - Freelance Animator  (As a 2nd job)

Garfield and Friends -Animated shots for a Garfield webisodes.

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September 2006 - January 2009 

Fatkat Animation Studios, New Brunswick - Full time Animator / Supervisor
2008-2009 -  Three Delivery (Chop Suey Trio) - Classical animator
2007 - Animated 'Gushy Graham E-Cards'
2006-2007 - Super Normal - Animation Supervisor:  
Managed an animation team of 4-6 people, wrote and approved revisions.
Worked closely with the director to keep everything consistent.
Made sure that my team's deadlines were always met.

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2005 

Wishart Entertainment Group - Freelance Storyboarder
Sage-Shyne - Storyboarded a music video for a local rap artist. 

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EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS

2003 - 2006:  Max the Mutt Animation School, Toronto - Graduated  from the 3-year 'fine arts and animation' diploma program.

2002 - 2003: Sheridan College - Graduated the Art Fundamentals certificate program.  

1998 - 2002: Sinclair Secondary School - Graduated with honours.  Received an award in communications technology for a 3D Studio Max computer animated short film.

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