Resumé

Dave Lanphear
309 S. Hobart Boulevard, Suite 5
Los Angeles, CA 90020
dave.lanphear@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/artmonkeys
(727) 459-4508

MISSION
Passionately producing narratives for film, TV, games, books & social media

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2003-present Owner of Artmonkeys Studios, a transmedia company
 transmedia producer for Amok Films, Ebencourt Entertainment, Aji Films
 art director & talent coordinator for Sealion Books
 illustrator, publication designer, pre-press book assembler, letterer, logo designer, production artist for national publications by Marvel, Disney/Hyperion, DC Comics, Riot Games, Cryptozoic, Sony, WildStorm, Dark Horse/Universal, Image, Zondervan, Radical, Sealion, Archaia, Sideshow Media, Village Broom, Big Bang Media, and Lakeshore Learning
 transmedia wonk on facebook, twitter, linkedin, paper.li & kickstarter

1998-2011 Storyboard/Pre-production Artist for…
 Marvel/Film Roman on Ultimate Spider-man
 Sony/Adelaide Productions on PBS' Dragon Tales, director Tim Eldred
 Hallmark Home Entertainment/Richard Raynis on Maxine's Christmas Carol

2000-2004 Design Director/Art Director, CrossGen Entertainment
 ground-up creator of Design and Lettering departments, and co-developer of overall production pipeline, pioneering new publishing industry paradigm
 produced, co-directed & co-edited production art for 40+ monthly periodicals
 industry trend-setter for on-time print material delivery in over 600+ periodicals, collections, trade paperbacks and art treasuries
 developer of proprietary digital fonts and lettering styles for Lettering Dept.
 core member of innovative Flash-platformed COMICS ON THE WEB, now an industry standard for transmedia migration of comic book IP
 pioneered popular pocket-sized Traveler editions, mapped on manga model

1994-1999 Sr. Production Artist/Letterer, Comicraft
 supervised award-winning digital lettering and design studio working for Marvel, DC, Image, Chaos, and many other leading publishers of top creatives like Alan Moore (Watchmen), Steve Skroce (Matrix), Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale (Heroes), the writers of Man of Action (Ben Ten, Generator Rex), and dozens more in the current edge of screenwriters and IP pre-visualizers
 lead 15 employees in studio’s visual style, timely delivery, and coordination with each publisher's production pipeline
 concurrently hand-lettered projects for Chaos! Comics, Malibu Comics

1993-1994 Jr. Production Artist, Malibu

1990-1993 Self-employed freelance illustrator and production artist

1985-1989 Lead Illustrator & Cartoonist, central California newspapers
 awarded three editorial cartooning awards from CIPA, NCCHA, and CPA
 produced two daily illustration features, This Day In History, and local San Joaquin weather, plus various editorial features and op/ed cartoons
 skilled caricaturist for regional and national beat

SPECIAL SKILLS
18 years proficiency in Adobe applications up through Creative Suite 4 including Illustrator, PhotoShop, Acrobat, InDesign, AfterEffects, Premiere, Fireworks, Flash, Freehand, and Streamline; 10 years experience in the Macromedia/Adobe Suite – Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver; Fontographer & FontLab; Microsoft Office, including Excel and Word; Quark Xpress; and Corel Painter 11. Some portfolio work in Maya 2009, 3D Studio Max 9, Manga Studio EX4, Art Rage 3, Flipbook 6, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro and Toon Boom Animate.

Extensive illustration experience, particularly lineart. Extensive production art experience including art retouch, pre-press, and color calibration. Extensive experience as a hand-letterer and font designer. For two years digitally retouched artwork by popular Japanese artists to localize their books for American manga publishers.

I excel in creative team assembly, dedicated to deadline art production.

I am an animator, training in several pipelines; traditional/2D, Maya/3D StudioMax, and Flash-based solutions like ToonBoom and Flipbook.

DIGITAL PORTFOLIO
My portfolio is available for review online via http://www.coroflot.com/Artmonkeys

REFERENCES
http://www.linkedin.com/in/artmonkeys

Projects by Dave Lanphear

Illustration
19 Files

Crossing The Line
44 Files

Animation Storyboards
1 File

Live Action Storyboards
8 Files

Animation Character Illustration
11 Files

Lettering video
1 File

Lettering
39 Files

Marvel Logo Design
17 Files

Logo Design
14 Files

Publication Design
11 Files

Marvel covers
10 Files

Cover design process 2
4 Files