Jeff Wolverton's Visual Effects Resume
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Qualifications:

Extensive feature film experience in visual effects animation, screenwriting, pitching, voice acting.
Visual effects artist on four Visual Effects Oscar-nominated films ("Stuart Little", "Hollow Man", "Spider-Man", "Narnia")
Nominated for a British Academy Award (BAFTA), 2003


Screenwriting Awards/Nominations:

Wrote screenplay to 2003 Academy Award-winning short animated film "The Chubbchubbs!"
Nominated for a 2003 British Academy Award (BAFTA) for writing 'The Chubbchubbs!' (official site)
Wrote screenplay to "Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists" (Released by Trimark, 2000)
Second Place, Scr(i)pt Magazine Open Door screenwriting contest sponsored by 'Guy Walks into a Bar' productions
Second Place, AAA Screenplay Contest sponsored by Creative Screenwriting magazine
Finalist, New Jersey International Film & Screenplay Festival
Semi-Finalist, Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest
Finalist, Century City Screenplay Festival
Voice actor ("The ChubbChubbs!," "The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas"),  SAG Eligible

Feature Film Employment:


    2005-Current: Effects Artist, Sony Pictures Imageworks

Hancock     - FX Artist
The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas     - Voice Actor (ChubbChubbs)
I Am Legend     - FX Artist
Spider-Man 3    - FX Animation Lead (led Rebel Sandman team, Glider Fx team)
Ghost Rider      - FX Animator (Smoke effects)
Monster House - FX Artist (Constance' "Spirit Cloud" at end)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – FX artist (Water & mist in waterfall sequence, snow & ice)
                [Narnia nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects, 2006]


    2005: Effects Animator, Stan Winston Studios

Fantastic Four – Lead FX Artist (The Invisible Girl, invisibility & force field effects)


    2004: Effects Animator, DreamWorks Feature Animation

Shark Tale – FX animator (Oscar's Lava Lamp, bubbles and ripples)
                     [Shark Tale nominated for an Academy Award for best animated feature, 2005]


    2002-2003: Visual Effects Artist, Rhythm & Hues studios

The Cat In The Hat – FX animator (the lightning in the box)
X2:X-Men United – FX animator (Water & Foam in water sequence that kills Jean Grey)
Daredevil – FX animator (Daredevil’s “shadow world” POV)


    2002: Visual Effects Animator, Digital Domain

Star Trek: Nemesis – FX animator (ending explosion effects)
The Day After Tomorrow – FX animator (CGI snowy landscape tests)


    1998-2002: Visual Effects Animator, Screenwriter & Voice Actor, Sony Pictures Imageworks

The ChubbChubbs! (short film) – Screenwriter (also performed the voice of the ChubbChubbs characters)
                        ["The ChubbChubbs!" won the Academy Award for best animated short, 2003, also was nominated for BAFTA, 2003]
Spider-Man – FX Animation Lead (Green Goblin Glider Smoke)
                        [Spider-Man nominated for an Academy Award for special effects, 2003]
Hollow Man – FX Animation Lead, (muscles in invisibility transformation sequences)
                        [Hollow Man nominated for an Academy Award for special effects, 2001]
The Astronaut’s Wife – Procedural animation (the “lightning alien”)
Random Hearts – CGI artist (Airplane)
Stuart Little – CGI Lighting Artist (mouse brushing teeth and gargling shots)
                        [Stuart Little nominated for an Academy Award for special effects, 2000]


    1999: Screenwriter & Background Voice Actor, Pentafour Studios

Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists – Screenwriter, background voices


    Pre-1998:Technical Director & Scratch Voice Actor, Walt Disney Feature Animation

Tarzan – CGI water, look development and rendering
Dinosaur – Scratch voice actor
Kingdom Of The Sun – (Later retitled "The Emporer's New Groove") Visual development
Hercules – Look Development, CG lighting & rendering for the Hydra character

Screenwriting, Pitching, Story Development & Voice acting:

Pitched, wrote treatments, on set dialogue & original screenplay for The ChubbChubbs

Wrote screenplay to Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists, all CGI feature film released by Trimark, 2000

Performed background voices for Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists

Performed scratch voice for character of Kron in Disney’s Dinosaur.

Pitched feature film story ideas to Walt Disney Feature Animation, Sony Pictures Animation & DreamWorks


Education:

Master of Science,  The Ohio State University

     Major: Computer science, specialization in computer graphics.

Bachelor of Science, The Ohio State University

     Major: Computer graphics & animation, minor in Philosophy.

Other Experience:

Animator and co-founder, Jamination Animation, Inc.

Created scoreboard animations for Madison Square Garden, NY Yankees, Chicago Bulls, others

Scoreboard Animator, Manager of Ohio State University Scoreboard Staff

Created animations for matrix scoreboards in football stadium & basketball arena. Created animation ideas, gags, pitched animation ideas to sponsors
         Extensive experience with: Houdini, Maya, Renderman, and XSI

TRIATHLONS I've competed in:

Pacific Coast Triathlon - 2004

Long Beach Triathlon - 2004

Catalina Island Triathlon - 2004

Hermosa Beach Triathlon - 2005

Catalina Island Triathlon - 2007

TRIATHLONS I came in last place or near-last place in:

Um, all of them.


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