RESUME

Michele Bousquet
(603) 682-3546
michele@mbousquet.com
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Animator  l  Writer l  Instructor l  Programmer
And overall video/film afficionado

ANIMATION

2006-2007 Instructor for CGSociety online classes. Topics: Low-Poly Character Modeling, Scripting, Character Animation with Biped.
1993-2007 Freelance animator on projects for local television and PBS. Clients include Canon, Bass Pro Shops, Autodesk. See Animation Samples.
2005-2007 Freelance CGI instructor, preparing college teachers to deliver game development curriculum. Clients include ITT Technical Institutes, DeVry University, Art Institutes.

2002-2004

Autodesk, Inc. Animator/Technical Writer, San Francisco. Created animation samples for shipping software, and contributed to manuals for 3ds max 5 & 6. Lead writer for Character Studio 4 documentation.

1999-2001

Instructor on Adobe Premiere and 3ds max at Future Media Concepts, NYC and Boston.

1992-1993

Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney, Australia. Lead 3D Animator. Created all 3D graphics for 1992-93 state and federal election coverage.

VIDEO PRODUCTION

2004 Producer/Host, "Around the Table," talk show on local political issues for RCTV, NH.

2003

Producer, “Fiddleheads Camp 2002,” documentary of Fiddleheads Music Camp in Bristol, NH.

2001

Producer, “Animation Station,” show bumper on 3D animation for children. Winner of Worldfest Award.

2000

Producer/Host, “Character Studio Basics,” educational video on 3ds max and Character Studio. Winner of Big Kahuna Award.

1998

Producer, “Why Dance?” commercial for Foot Notes Studio of Dance. Aurora Award winner.

1996-1997

Producer, A. Routsis Associates. Series of educational videos for injection molding industry. Included coordination and management of live action and animation crews.

1994

Producer, “3DS Around the World” documentary series on animators in Europe, Australia, and Russia, for Many Worlds Productions. Portions featured on PBS program Independent Lens.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Expert at 3ds max, Character Studio, Premiere, Photoshop, Quark XPress, FrameMaker, PageMaker, Javascript, HTML, MAXScript, C++
Competent with Maya, After Effects, Flash
Wrote accounting systems in Dataflex (now Visual Dataflex) 1985-1989. Clients included Arco, Petro-Canada. Gave up database programming for animation in 1990, but never stopped programming.

PUBLICATIONS

I have authored more than 20 books on animation software, including Character Animation with Biped and Model, Rig, Animate with 3ds max 7. Click here for a complete list at Amazon.com.

AWARDS AND CERTIFICATIONS

2007 WorldFest Bronze Remi Award for "Animation Station" TV show for children on animation.
2005 Autodesk 3ds max Certified Instructor under the new, rigorous workshop system.

2000

Big Kahuna Award for “Character Studio Basics,” Educational category.

1998

Platinum Best of Show Aurora Award for “Why Dance,” commercial for Foot Notes Studio of Dance.