After those many years of dedicated and excellent workaholishness I've stepped down from the old career of leadership and management, and begun writing and even painting again. Short research jobs I take on to help with the writing will all be, if I can help it, work experiences that I can walk to - close to home here in Toronto.
HERE IS THE BIG LONG LIST OF WHAT I DID TO PAY THE BILLS FOR YEARS
* Originally, (in the beginning) lots and lots of designing and creating artwork
for a whole variety of reasons and people - but then, across time . . . it somehow turned into :
* identifying and resolving process problems
* helping partner Technology and Production to build new digital foundations
* building estimating process based on complexity to decrease production costs
* forming training and education groups in studios to increase staff knowledge
* building combined physical/digital to feed production, saving double costs
* developing multi-site production in several countries simultaneously
* building performance system to foster talent and save operating costs
* developing split pipeline approach for parallel long form and short form work
* leading crew of 80 effects artists on digital movies
* leading design department of 200 people for tv production
* leading 500 variously skilled people on multiple parallel projects
* leading crew of 80 effects artists on digital movies
* leading design department of 200 people for tv production
* leading 500 variously skilled people on multiple parallel projects
* developing skills training sessions for speed and uniformity of work methods
* acting on difficult HR issues with people in key roles to expedite action
* evolving use of digital tools in all physical production departments
* inventing new usage of digital tools in all the animated movie making stages
* passionately enjoying the ever quickening Curve Of Change that is upon us
All of the fun adventures described above were refined working at :
2009 to 2011 at GANZ Interactive Division Art Department - Art Lead on WEBKINZ
2006 to 2009 LAIKA Animation Studios in Portland, Oregon - VP and Head of Production
2003 to 2006 DKP STUDIOS - Director of Visual Development, Head of Art Dept., Art Director
2000 to 2003 BIG IDEA STUDIOS – VP of Production and Executive Producer on “JONAH”
1995 to 2000 DREAMWORKS-SKG - Artistic Liaison and Co-Head of Effects on the movie
PRINCE OF EGYPT, and “Triage” Digital Supervisor on ROAD TO ELDORADO
Even further back in the mists of time, I had also worked with and gained from three other very different companies. I learned much about motivating, directing, helping and managing people inside of new and “impossible” projects. Those three included becoming Manager of Design for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation inside their new digital production studio in Toronto, Canada, with true-cost estimating and cooperation with unions through fair performance management - integrating efforts and deliverables of physical and digital groups.
During that same earlier stretch of time I was also in California as the very first Head of Computer Generated Imagery for Walt Disney Feature Animation on their movies BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ALADDIN, LION KING, as well as the startup of FANTASIA and POCAHONTAS. During this time I transformed a small R&D group into the first computer graphics production unit for budgeted and dead-lined digital animated movie work.
And, all of this came out of my initial (accidental) involvement with OMNIBUS COMPUTER GRAPHICS where I learned one hell of a lot and helped design, develop, and use new 2d-3d digital production systems for film and video work way back in the very early 1980's.
" HOW DID YOU TRAIN FOR ALL OF THIS?"
" WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL?" you ask...
" HOW DID YOU TRAIN FOR ALL OF THIS?"
" WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL?" you ask...
Well, the EDUCATION / TRAINING was kinda-sorta like this :
DETROIT SOCIETY OF ARTS & CRAFTS
( now known as CENTER FOR CREATIVE STUDIES )
* attended Commercial Art courses for auto design and illustration long before there was ANY computer anything anywhere.
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY in DETROIT, MICHIGAN
* briefly attended real Fine Art courses toward Bachelor of Arts, while working full time in a warehouse.
CARLETON UNIVERSITY in OTTAWA, CANADA
* Religion and Philosophy course whilst working my butt off learning tv design during work days and nights.
And there was some PROFESSIONAL TRAINING including courses, seminars, and sessions
in Design, UNIX, Computer Data, HTML and web pages, Computer Design and Animation, Leadership, Management, 3d Stereoscopy while working in Toronto, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
in Design, UNIX, Computer Data, HTML and web pages, Computer Design and Animation, Leadership, Management, 3d Stereoscopy while working in Toronto, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
"And Now?" you ask . . . well, now I am enjoying writing for eBook publishing and creating visuals both digitally and physically. There is no longer any master plan nor burning ambition the way there used to be. Having done all I set out to do when I left home in Detroit, Michigan all those years ago, I am grateful for my new home city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My first eBook touches on that and my next eBook is set right in the heart of historic Olde Toronto, where I now live.
The first eBook is at : http://djpilibbossian.blogspot.ca/2012/07/amazon-kindle-links-for-to-heaven-with.html
The first eBook is at : http://djpilibbossian.blogspot.ca/2012/07/amazon-kindle-links-for-to-heaven-with.html
and my next eBook *might* be ready in a couple of years.
Daniel Joseph Philips
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