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							MARK BOROK 49 Placid Rd. Newton, MA 02459 (617) 964-5839 email: mborok@restlesspixels.com PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE VPG, Boston, MA • Animator/Designer, 2008 Created interface designs, animation for educational multimedia projects. Gamelogic, Inc. Waltham, MA • Sr. Game Designer, 2008 Created graphics and animation for online casino-style games. Designed icons and other interface elements. Soup2Nuts Studios, Watertown, MA • Animator, 2004-2005, 2007 Storyboarding, Character Design on Time Warp Trio animated series. Animated short film, Surely You Joust, for the Cartoon Network. Developed visual style for Assy McGee, a series idea pitched to, and picked up by, the Cartoon Network. Character designer on Emmy award-winning PBS series, Word Girl. Devine & Pearson, Quincy, MA • Graphic Artist, 2001-2002 Designed characters, illustrations, Flash activities for web site promoting produce to children. Client: the Produce Marketing Association. Juniornet Corp, Boston, MA • Graphic Artist/Animator, 1998-2001 Participated in development of online service for children. Created Flash animations and graphics for wide variety of content areas, including Reading Rainbow, Bear in the Big, Blue House, Highlights for Children, Weekly Reader and others. Invented Juniornet Art Academy, a new activity that integrated online drawing lessons into existing paint program. Created prototype of this activity in Director. Designed character, concept, script and storyboard for television episode based on above activity. Animated segments of pilot episode of Poynt & Clik television series using Adobe AfterEffects. Series was pitched to, and picked up by PBS. Chedd-Angier Productions, Watertown, MA • Illustrator, 1997-1998 Created most of the icons, illustrations and animations for interactive exhibits at the California Museum of Science and Industry. Took the initiative in publishing storyboards to a web site for client to review, thereby facilitating communications and streamlining production process. Used knowledge of wide variety of software packages to creatively solve problems for others within the company. Acquired knowledge of Lightwave and prototyped simple game in Director using QuickTime. Vipah Interactive, Wellesley, MA • Animator, 1996 Animated key scenes on Curious George Early Learning Adventure and Curious George ABC educational games for Houghton Mifflin Interactive. Planet Interactive, Boston, MA • Animator, 1996 Animated characters for multimedia presentation marketing creative writing software for the classroom. Phillips Interactive Media, Los Angeles, CA • Animator, 1995 Created Storyboards, layouts and charater animation for Treasures of Oz educational software title. Film Roman, Los Angeles, CA • Character Layout Artist, 1994 Character Layout on The Simpsons WGBH Design, Boston, MA • Animator, 1991 Worked as part of a team creating animated segments for Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego project for PBS. Studio Z, Boston, MA • Animator, 1990 Designed and executed backgrounds, storyboards, cel animation for the Emmy-nominated Earth to Kids special on HBO. SKILLS Traditional drawing and animation • Video compositing (Adobe AfterEffects) • 3D (Lightwave) • Multimedia (Flash) • Graphics (Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter) EDUCATION California Institute Of The Arts, Valencia CA 1993 First year graduate program in Experimental Animation. Rhode Island School Of Design, Providence RI 1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Illustration. Ecole Superieure Des Arts Graphiques, Paris, France 1986 One-year intensive foundation courses. FILMOGRAPHY "The Magician" 1990 Computer-animated film, screened at the following venues: Ottawa International Animation Festival Ottawa Canada, Fall 1992 Black Maria Film Festival Jersey City NJ, 1992 Mill Valley Film Festival Mill Valley CA, Fall 1991 Academy Award Student Competion Boston MA, Spring 1991 (Regional finals) Medicine Wheel Animation Festival Boston MA, Winter 1991 Museum Of Fine Arts Boston MA, Spring 1993