Jessica Lindsay

Current

• Illustrator at Courte-Échelles Éditions
• Illustrator at Self-employed

Past

• Colorist at Pascal Blais studio
• Illustrator at Bonzai films
• 2D concept artist at Volta

• Animator at Mandarine 24

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Education

• Cegep du vieux montreal
• Champlain Regional College

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Animation

Websites

• My Portfolio
• My Blog

Jessica Lindsay’s Summary

Im an illustrator, colorist and character designer! Ive worked with animation, gaming, media and publishing companies as a freelancer for 2 years now. I also do some work in-house for Pascal Blais studio as a layout colorist, ive worked on two mini wheats commercials as well as a marinela tv spot. I love my work and there's nothing i would like more than to help others realize their projects.

I studied at cegep du Vieux-Montreal, where I completed my first animated short "Uno". I do animation on the side, but I mostly do illustration. I have 3 books that are published up to now and that are listed below, with more in the works.

I master coloring programs such as Photoshop and Painter, and i know a little bit of flash as well.

Jessica Lindsay’s Specialties:

Illustration, coloring, character art

Jessica Lindsay’s Experience

• Illustrator

  Courte-Échelles Éditions

  (Entertainment industry)

  November 2009 — Present (2 months)

  Worked on a two issue storybook for children, on this project I did:
  ●Character design
  ● Environment design
  
  Published works:
  ● Le chevalier triple creme by Lili Chartrand isbn: 978-2-89651-183-9 (august 2008- september 2008)
  ● Les jujubes robots by Lili Chartrand isbn: 978-2-89651-184-6 (october 2008- november 2008)
  ● La fontaine bleuet by Lili Chartrand *soon*

• Illustrator

  Self-employed

  (Entertainment industry)

  July 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

  Banner/illustration design for various websites and projects, as well as character design and more:
  ● Illustrator for happyfuntime games
  ● Character artist at Idevcor media
  ● Character artist at Fresh Games
  ● Character and background artist for Mind activa
  ● Flash artist for Hibe (www.hibe.com )
  ● Illustrator for Faerie Solitaire (http://www.subsoap.com )
  ● ect...
  
  Published works
  
  ● Merure: volume 01 (isbn: 978-0-557-04127-5)
  ● Merure: volume 02 (coming out soon)
  ● Café salé: artbook 03 (isbn: 978-2-916739-72-4)

• Colorist

  Pascal Blais studio

  (Animation industry)

  January 2009 — November 2009 (11 months)

  Project: New Mini wheats flavor October 09
  ● Coloring all of the backgrounds
  
  Project: Miel pops concept art coloration October 09
  ● Colored the character designs as well as refined the background propositions for the commercial pitch
  
  Project: Yoplait tubes illustration September 09
  ● Colored one of the yoplait tubes illustrations
  
  Project: Mini Wheats strawberry flavor tv spot September 09 (1 month)
  ● Coloring all of the backgrounds
  
  Project: Mini Wheats blueberry muffin flavor tv spot June 09 (2 months)
  ● Coloring all of the backgrounds
  ●Ad currently featured on the company website, video entitled "Mini wheats blueberry" http://www.pascalblais.com
  
  Project: Marinela tv spot, January 09 (1 month)
  ● Helped to clean animation layouts
  ● Colored all of the backgrounds
  ●Ad currently featured on the company website, video entitled "Penguinos Fabrica" http://www.pascalblais.com

• Illustrator

  Bonzai films

  (Animation industry)

  May 2009 — June 2009 (2 months)

  Project: 'Afrikologie' for tv5
  Task: Developing character, background and color concepts for the intro of a documentary
  
  View intro here:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCkqEXAlkxo

• 2D concept artist

  Volta

  (Computer Games industry)

  June 2008 — October 2008 (5 months)

  Colored, inked and sketched out various illustrations.
  
  Work done in collaboration with Volta
  
  ● Tele-quebec ( Background coloration for Sam Chicotte )
  ● Crayola Adventures ( Object design )
  ● ect...

• Animator

  Mandarine 24

  (Animation industry)

  August 2007 — September 2007 (2 months)

  A short contract job. I animated a series of characters in a "cut-out" style on ToonBoom solo, I also designed, drew and rigged some of the characters and props.

Jessica Lindsay’s Education

• Cegep du vieux montreal

  2D animation 2005 — 2008

  Acquired skills:
  -Layout planning
  -2D traditional animation
  -Character design
  -Storyboarding

• Champlain Regional College

  Creative Arts 2003 — 2005

  Acquired skills:
  -Drawing from observation
  -Sculpting
  -Critiquing

  Activities and Societies:

  Visual arts club

Additional Information

Jessica Lindsay’s Websites:

• My Portfolio
• My Blog

Jessica Lindsay’s Interests:

Animation, art toys, sculpture, drawing, video games, comic books, new technology

Jessica Lindsay’s Groups:

•    Animation, Media & Entertainment
•    Digital Artist Outsourcing Group (InArtists)
•    Entertainment Industry
•    Photoshop Illustrators Network
•    Art Professionals Worldwide
•    CREATIVE DESIGN PROS
•    Women in Animation
•    The Freelance Creative Media Group UK (FCMUK)
•    Artician
•    Réso Animation
•    Video Game Music

Jessica Lindsay’s Honors:

Short film "Uno" :
●was selected for the "best-ofs" created at le cegep du vieux Montreal and was aired at the cinema du parc along with a collection of other shorts
●placed rank 53 out of 1293 animation shorts in the aniboom awards 2008 competition
●will air on MHz NETWORKS during commercial breaks
●was granted a daily feature on the deviant arts website and earned many other features by the DA Film & Animation community.

Other:
●Won a prize at the "KABOUM" art show for my colored pieces

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