Briar Lee Mitchell
11552 Hartsook Street
Valley Village , CA 91601
rep: Jon Cantor, esq. 818. 676.3366
creative director, game designer, bg and matte painter, professor
Education
1982 BA: University of Toledo. Toledo, Ohio.
1985 MA: University of California at San Francisco.
Work Experiences
commercial illustrator since 1977 animation/digital experience since 1982
2003-present Professor at the Art Institute of Los Angeles, teaching courses in visual effects, matte painting, game development and animation
2003 BG painter for Camp Chaos Show, VH1
2000-2002 Lead artist, Knowledge Adventure/Vivendi Universal
- co-founder of Star Mountain Studios
1999 Matte painter for Life on Mars, produced by Caliban Filmworks - sfx supervisor, Mark Kolpack
- Background artist for Major Damage, directed by Chris Bailey (director of Oscar nominated Runaway Brain).
- One-sheet design and layout for Seinigers and Full Moon Productions.
- Animator and vfx artist for independent film titled The Facts of Life, directed by Susan Roether Zsigmond, DP - Vilmos Zsigmond.
1998-99 Background artist for Little Human There, independent animated short directed by Jerry Verschoor.
- Conceptual artist for Junkshop Mind.
- Co-creator of The Better Mousetrap, a 30 minute animated educational program.
- Co-creator of The Pete and RePete Show.
- Co-creator of The Pozy & Negy Show.
- Creator of WISH.
1997 Digital Background Painter on The Quest for Camelot and The Iron Giant, Warner Bros.
- Background artist for award winning short The Physics of Cartoons
1996 BG layout for Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries and Pinky and the Brain at Warner Bros. Television Animation.
1995 Digital Painter for OCS FreezeFrame.
1988 Created storyboards, portraits and animation for interactive laser disc The Life and Times of Albert Einstein. Worked at The Smithsonian and Skywalker Ranch (LucasFilm, Ltd.).
1985-88 Producer, Illustrator, Animator for CMESat (Continuing Medical Education via Satellite) at Johns Hopkins and Harvard.
freelance 1977-present Clients include Disney, Warner Brothers, FBI, Lucasfilms Ltd., The Smithsonian, Genentech, Harvard, Yale and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Burroughs-Wellcome Drug Company, US Air Force National Archives, Banana Road Productions (Tom Selleck), AT&T, McDonald’s and Coca Cola.
Professional Organizations
1997-present Women In Animation
1996-present Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists, local 839 i.a.t.s.e.
1993-present Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles.
1993-present Air Force Art Program.
2005-present ASIFA
2005-present Society of Children’s Book Writers
Special Skills
Photoshop Guru, Quark, Illustrator, Flash, After Effects, (working knowledge) Maya, Max.
References
Richard Sternberg, animator/game designer 562.439.8129
Adam Ryan, producer, Knowledge Adventure, 951.279.5037
Mark Kolpack , visual effects supervisor, 818.789.0753
