Coroflot

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

MISSION
To further my design of publication, illustration, and animation by diligence, passion, and studio-honed management experience on your storytelling projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1994-2011 Self-employed Storyboard/Pre-production Artist for…
? Marvel/Film Roman on Ultimate Spider-man, directors Jeff Allen, Phil Pignotti
? Sony/Adelaide Productions on PBS' Dragon Tales, director Tim Eldred
? Hallmark Home Entertainment/Richard Raynis on Maxine's Christmas Carol

2005-present Art Director & Sr. Editor at Large, Sea Lion Books
? art director & talent coordinator of projects licensed from NYTimes best-selling authors including George R.R. Martin, Anne Rice & more

2003-present Owner/Art Director, Artmonkeys Studios
? art director, illustrator, publication designer, pre-press book assembler, letterer, logo designer, production artist for national publications by Marvel, Disney/Hyperion, DC Comics, HarperCollins, Sony, WildStorm, Dark Horse/Universal, Image, Zondervan, Radical, Sea Lion, and Archaia

2000-2004 Design Director/Art Director, CrossGen Entertainment
? ground-up creator of Design and Lettering departments, and co-developer of overall production pipeline, pioneering current comics 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 media development of comic properties
? pioneered pocket-sized Traveler editions, mapped on manga paradigm

1994-1999 Production Manager/Lead Letterer, Comicraft
? supervised award-winning digital lettering and design studio working for Marvel, DC, Image, Chaos, and many other leading publishers of top creatives Alan Moore (Watchmen), Steve Skroce (Matrix), Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale (Heroes), Man of Action (Ben 10), and dozens more in the current edge of screenwriters and property pre-visualizers
? supervised 15 employees in studio’s visual style, timely delivery, and coordination with each publisher's production pipelines
1993-1994 Jr. Production Artist, Malibu

1985-1989 Lead Illustrator & Cartoonist, central California newspapers
? awarded three editorial cartooning awards from CIPA, NCCHA, and CPA

SPECIAL SKILLS
19 years proficiency in Adobe applications up through Creative Suite 5 including Illustrator, PhotoShop, Acrobat, InDesign, AfterEffects, Premiere, Fireworks, Flash, Freehand, and Streamline; 7 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.

I am a vocal performer.

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

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