Thomas Thesen

Freischaffender Illustrator und Character - Designer.
Arbeitete unter anderem fuer Pixar ( 'Ratatouille'), Dreamworks ( Character Animation fuer Shrek2 und Character Design fuer Jerry Seinfelds Projekt 'The Bee-movie' und 'PIB') Studierte an der FH Hamburg Illustration und bekam mein MFA in Experimenteller Animation in LosAngeles am California Institute of the Arts.

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education

2000-2003 MFA, Experimental Animation; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 1995-2000 Illustration for childrens books; University of Applied Sciences, Department of Design, Hamburg, Germany 1993-1995 History of Art, Classical Archeology and Prehistory at Julius Maximilians Universitaet, Wuerzburg, Germany

PROFESSIONAL Experience

-2005 Character design for feature film PIB at Dreamworks 2004-2005 Character design and visual development on Jerry Seinfeld project B-movie at Dreamworks 2004 Tought character design at Young San University in Busan, South Korea 2003-2004 Assistant character animator for Shrek2 2002 Freelance Character design for Pixar movie Ratatouille 2001-2003 Creator of animated film Flying objects, including layout, design, story and animation 2000-2001 Creator of animated film Fische, including layout, design, story and animation 1999-2000 Daftsman for model sheets, clean ups, inbetweens at Animation Studio Ludewig ASL in Hamburg, Germany Illustrator of two chapters of the book Eine geistreiche Kulturgeschichte des
20. und 21. Jahrhunderts
Illustrator for Childrens book fair Bologna, Italy
1997 Illustrator for the book Jan auf Umwegen
1995-1998 Draftsman for archeological artifacts and excavation plans for scientific publications at Helms Museum Hamburg Harburg, Germany 1994, 1995 I excavated artifacts, drew excavation plans and surveyed the area in Gaukoenigshofen, Germany