Email: adonato8@gmail.com

Specialties: Character Design, Visual Development, Illustration, Digital Painting, Color Design, Prop Design

Software Knowledge of Toonboom Harmony and Autodesk Maya

Located in Los Angeles / Burbank

Available for In House Fulltime or Freelance/Remote Work

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Vis Dev Artist/Background Painter - Nickelodeon (Monster High)

September 2022 - April 2024

Color Designer - Disney TVA (Multiplatform/Chibiverse)

April 2022 - September 2022

Color Designer - Disney TVA (Ghost and Molly McGee)

August 2020 - April 2022

Freelance Character Designer - Titmouse/Netflix (Arlo the Alligator Boy and I Heart Arlo Tv Series)

April 2020 - July 2020

Freelance Character Designer - DWTV (Development Show and The Mighty Ones) 

Dec 2019 - April 2020

Visual Development Artist - DWTV (Tales of Arcadia/Wizards)

August 2018 - January 2020

Freelance Character Designer - ReelFX (UglyDoll)

Feb 2018 - August 2018

Color Stylist - Disney TVA (Star vs the Forces of Evil)

May 2015 - August 2018

Freelance Character Designer - Cartoon Network

June 2015 ~ Nov 2015

Color Stylist - Nickelodeon

August 2014 - March 2015, Burbank, CA

Freelance Character Designer - Nickelodeon

June 2014

Visual Development Artist - ReelFX

January 2011 – July 2014 (3 years 1 month) Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• "Book of Life" 2014 Feature Film - Character Design and Visual Development
• "Free Birds" 2013 Feature Film - Visual Development
• 2D concept work for various studio projects

Freelance Character Designer - Bent Image Lab

• Character Designs for Hallmark short "Polariffic" (2014)
• Freelance character design work on commercial pitches

3D Generalist Apprentice/Texture Artist - ReelFX

July 2010 – January 2011 (7 months)

• Generalist 3D Apprentice (Maya) Texturing on Looney Tunes 3D shorts; I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat and Daffy's Rhapsody

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Education:

Ringling College of Art and Design

BFA, Computer Animation 2006 – 2010