Welcome! I’m a Brit located in Viborg, Denmark, graduated with a BA in Character Animation from The Animation Workshop. I specialize in 2D and 3D character animation, as well as illustration and character design. I have also several years' education and experience working academically and commercially in the field of psychoacoustics and audiology.
WORK
Dec 2012 :: Assistant Teacher, Intro to TVPaint, The Animation Workshop
- Assisting first year BA students learning this 2D animation software.
Nov 2012 :: Assistant Teacher, Attitude Walk, The Animation Workshop
- Assisting first year BA students animating an attitude walk in 2D.
Oct 2012 :: 2D Animator, TVPaint, 'Shrug Island' game dir. Alina Constantin
- Animating a 2D avatar for an iPad interactive game.
Sept 2012 :: Co-Teacher, Animation Basics, The Animation Workshop
- Three weeks teaching the first year BA students the very basics of 2D animation.
Aug 2012 :: 2D Animator, TVPaint, 'Bad Rain' music video for Slash, dir. Christian De Vita
- Full character animation for a narrative-based music video, working remote.
July 2012 :: Prop-builder, Carte Blanche Theatre, 'Between Us'
- Designing and building props and portable sets.
June 2012 :: 2D Animator, TVPaint, 'Love & Vehicles' dir. Draško Ivezić
- Animating walk cycles and a tango sequence for a short film
Spring 2012 :: Puppet and prop-builder, compositor, stop-motion animator, Tin Drum Animation, Viborg, 'Hollow Land' dir. Uri and Michal Kranot
- Part of a team producing a two-and-a-half D art film at The Open Workshop.
Autumn 2011 :: Intern, Tin Drum Animation, Viborg, 'Hollow Land' dir. Uri and Michal Kranot
2010 - 2011 :: 2D Animator, TVPaint, Production Designer, Character Design Lead, Bachelor film 'Væsen' dir. Adrian Dexter
- Our final year project, from story idea to finished film in 8 months.
Autumn 2010 :: 2D Animator, TVPaint, Danish Film School midway film 'Hamburg via Nykøbing Falster' dir. Carina Randløv
- Working as part of a larger production team, finishing a 7-minute film in 2 months.
Spring 2010 :: Lead 3D Animator, DADIU game production 'Plankton'
- Creating animations of underwater creatures, liasing with art direction, programmers and designers.
2009 - 2010 :: Festival Distribution Secretary, The Animation Workshop, Denmark
- Distributing films produced at the school to festivals world-wide.
2006 - 2007 :: Technical Audiologist, Oticon a/s
- Developing, hearing aid prototyping systems, implementing gain algorithms in Matlab, specifying testing and writing help content for fitting software.
2002 - 2006 :: Research Assistant, Bang & Olufsen a/s and Aalborg University
- Research areas: sound quality and sound perception. Tasks: developing, programming and carrying out listening tests, writing journal articles, presenting research at conferences.
2000 - 2001 :: Trainee Acoustic Engineer, Acoustics Department, Bang & Olufsen a/s, Struer
- Developing and implementing audio DSP algorithms in Matlab, acoustic measurement.
EDUCATION
2012 :: BA Character Animation, The Animation Workshop, Denmark
2008 :: The Drawing Academy, Denmark
2006 :: MSc. E.E. Acoustics, Aalborg University, Denmark
2002 :: B.Eng (Hons) Electroacoustics, Salford University, UK
SKILLS & SOFTWARE
2D animation - TVPaint, Flash, AfterEffects, paper
3D animation - Autodesk Maya
Illustration - Photoshop, mixed media
Other - Premiere Pro, Matlab, Labview, LaTeX, beginner PHP, Max/MSP
LANGUAGES
English (native)
Danish (fluent - studieprøve)
CONTACT
jody.ghani (at) gmail (dot) com
+45 61672042
http://jodyghani.blogspot.com
All works here are copyright © 2007-2013 Jody Ghani. All rights reserved.
