Joseph Gilland

Current

• Art Director at Frank Productions

Past

• Head of Classical Animation and Digital Character Animation at Vancouver Film School
• Supervisor of Special Effects at Bardel Entertainment
• Head of Effects at Disney Feature Animation

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Joseph Gilland’s Summary

In my 32+ year animation career, I have worked as an animation supervisor and director, and as a visual effects animator/supervisor, with such studios as Walt Disney Feature Animation, Don Bluth Animation, Productions Pascal Blais and the National Film Board of Canada. At Walt Disney Feature Animation, I served as Supervisor of Visual Effects for the Disney features Lilo & Stitch and Brother Bear. At Disney I also served as Head of Special Effects Units for the Disney features Kingdom of the Sun and Tarzan, and was Special Effects Animator on such notable titles as Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, James and the Giant Peach, Hercules and Mulan. I served as Designer and Supervisor for all 2D and 3D visual effects on the television series Silverwing, at Bardel Animation in Vancouver. I have also designed and directed a wide variety of television commercials. Clients include General Motors, CocaCola,
Honda, MacDonald’s, Gillette, Players Tobacco, Larrouse Dictionaries, and Radio Quebec.

I have recently released a (the) book on special effects animation called 'Elemental Magic'. It is available online at Amazon.com and Barnes & Nobles.....

I wrote a bi-monthly column for Animation World Network Magazine called 'The Animated Scene' covering all aspects of the animation business today.
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Columns&column=AniScene

Joseph Gilland’s Specialties:

Special Effects Animation, Classical Character Animation, 2D, 2.5D and 3D animation integration.