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PROFILE MARIE GRACE A. DIMARANAN
Animator /Managing Director / Producer / Trainer
GENERAL INFORMATION
Address : #38 Apacible Street, Philamlife Village, Las Pinas City. Status : Married with 2 kids ( Baron - 14 and Faith – 10 as of May 2009 ) Spouse : Luis Dimaranan ( 2D and 3D animation Director ) Contact nos: ( 632) 8711590 ; (632) 8729567 ; (632) 0917 3302488 Email : [email protected] ; [email protected] [email protected] URL : www.toppeganimation.com ; www.animationcouncil.org Hobbies : Drawing and writing concepts or design, teaching, watching movies, Snorkeling, Traveling to different places and cooking. Skills: Computer Literate in Microsoft word, Excel, Powerpoint, Corel Draw, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, MIRO for animation linetest, CTP Pro (Cartoon Animation TV program ) & Retas Pro software for Ink and Paint and Macromedia Flash. Knows western and anime style animation work.
EDUCATION Elem - Highschool : St. Joseph’s Academy ( Las Pinas City, Manila ) -- Won 1st Place for Poem writing competition Senior level 1983 -- Overall Coordinator for Information & Arts Organization 1983-84 College : University of Santo Tomas ( UST ) in Manila. --- Fine Arts Graduate ( Commercial Arts ) --- Winner of Mascot design competition for National Science Technology
Institute of the Philippines 1987
WORK HISTORY:
• Animator’s Production Center ( 1987) --- Graphic designer / Conceptual artist Shows done : TV commercials for Magnolia Ice cream, Liberty Milk, Nescafe coffee
Storyboard for Phil. Charity Sweepstakes
� Optifex International (1987 - 1988) --- Asst. Animator Shows done : Scooby Doo Series Captain Caveman series Snorks
• Fil-Cartoons Inc. ( 1988- 1992 ) -- Animator ( level 1); Asst. Director Shows done : Yogi Bear series Flintstones
Snorkels Jetsons Capt. Caveman Police Academy Series Darkwater Fantastic Max
Super Ted
• S.T.E.C Entertainment Company ( Japanese Company -1992 - 7 months ) --_ Department Head , Animation Trainor
Shows done : Zorro Sailor Moon � Moving Images International (1992 – 1995) – Animation Trainor/Animator
Shows done: Monstermania Wind in the willows Treasure Island Dreamstone Hallmark animation specials
• Toon City (1995 -1996 ) --- Master Animator / Trainor Shows done : 101 Dalmatians Winnie the Pooh Bonkers Aladdin TV series Buzz lightyear Hercules TV series
Mouseworks • Top Peg Animation & Creative Studio Inc. (1996 to Present )
--- Managing Director, Trainor, Creative Director, Producer Shows done: Silat Legenda ( Malaysia – Feature) Chamoritta ( Guam – Commercial ) Polluted waters ( UNICEF ) Happily Ever After fairy tales ( HBO )
Capt Fracasse ( D’ocon – Spain ) Monstories shorts ( Canada )
Sissy Duckling ( Feature film) Bob and Margaret ( U K ) TUTUBI PATROL SERIES ( Producer and Creative Director)
� The first All – Filipino Children’s animated series shown at ABC 5. � Won an Anak TV Seal Award February 2006
Training and teaching animation basics
TUTUBI PATROL CHARACTERS
Graphic design samples
• Overall Creative Director for JOBERT ANIMATION SERIES, an all- Filipino action adventure series.
• NAVEL Academy of Digital Arts ( 2004 - 2006 )
--- Instructor for Multimedia Arts & Animation --- Trainor for Professional animator & Asst Animator
--- Developed curriculum for the school’s Art & Animation Courses OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS :
� Animation Council of the Philippines – Vice president for 2002 – 2005 and President July 2006 to Mar 2009, Board member until 2011. ACPI is a government initiated organization since year 2000. ( www.animationcouncil.org)
� Hold seminars, conferences, speaking engagements and workshops for
animation in various schools, companies and special events.
� Philippine representative for “The Animation and Comic Forum” held in Tokyo
Japan ( March 2003 )
� Philippine representative of the “Training Program for Thailand and Philippine SME Managers” held at Seoul, South Korea ( Sept. 2003 )
� Official speaker for Animation Industry “ Breaking through the Japanese Market”
held at Intercon Hotel, Philippines ( Nov. 2003)
� One of the Industry experts / consultant for Skills and Standards competency for Animation accreditation for 2D,3D, flash & full 2d digital production Training Regulations conducted by TESDA, a government institution.
� One of the consultants of CHED for the embedment of Tesda TVET programs in animation to Bachelor of science courses : BS in Computer Science, BS in Information Technology and BS in information systems.
� Co-produced & overall creative Director of the FIRST all-Filipino children’s
animated series based on a book in the Philippines (2002 -2003) which won an Anak TV seal award for family friendly & value-oriented show.
� BPAP member and Board of Trustee, July 2006 -2009. (www.bpap.org)
� Top peg Animation Studio was voted by the Animation industry to be the first pioneer winner of the Cyberservices Awards for local third-Party service company ( Phil-based and locally owned servicing third-party clients )on June 2006. (www.cict.gov.ph)
� Speaker for E-services “ Producing Original Content” ( Feb 2006 ) and yearly
judge for the Animazing shorts organized by CITEM.
� Speaker for Animation sector at the “ State of the Philippine Competitiveness 2006, National Conference” on July 19, 2006. And also a panelist for the July 15,2008 conference.
� Mindanao ICT Congress speaker for animation entitled , “ Innovate. Collaborate.
Transform” on Sept 20, 2006.
� Animation Industry representative for ROUND TABLE discussion with Pres. Gloria MAcapagal-Arroyo for the ICT sector. Live & televised last August 2006. (www.opnet.ops.gov.ph )
• One of the judges for E-services Animazing Shorts for 2004-2006 and elected Chairman of judges at E-services 2007 competition. Opening Remarks speaker for Creative Tracks : Digital Animation 2007-2008
• Speaker for YOUTH I.T Conference attended by 2,000 -5,000 students nationwide for years 2005 & 2007 held at UP Diliman audio visual Building. Topic : Animation trends & opportunities
• Asian Institute of Management speaker ( AIM ) for “Managing Creative People” , Sept 2007 and May 2008.
• Animation Council initiated & organized Animahenasyon 2007: Pinoy Animation Festival competition & conference at Indie Cine, Robinsons Galleria from Nov 21- 27, 2007. Invited Speaker for “Teaching Animation based on Experience” & at Animahenasyon 2008 ( Nov 12-16, 2008) – invited speaker for the Animation Congress: plotting of the Phil. Animation history
• Speaker for “ Digital Animation” at PSITE (Phil Society of IT Educators) 10th anniversary held at Heritage hotel, February 2008.
• Quarterly speaker since 2007 for the Dept. of Foreign affairs, Foreign Service International commercial attaches. Talk about animation sector updates for the newly trained Filipino Commercial Attaches to be deployed to different countries.
• One of the two Philippine representative for the Asiagraph 2008, held in Tokyo Japan. Event & signing of MOU for asian countries collaboration on cultural arts & animation is signed Oct 2008.
CHARACTER REFERENCES :
Nestor Palabrica - Operations Manager TOEI Animation, Philippines
Telephone : 0917 8430913 / 6877168 [email protected]
Susie Manrique – Trade Specialist of DTI Telephone: (BETP) (632) 8904713
[email protected] [email protected]
Tony Tulipano - Director, Facelift Ent. Ontario, Canada
Telephone: 0917 8210371 [email protected]
Carlos Barretto , Manager- Shooting Star Productions at SAipan, Guam Telephone: 0917 8210371 [email protected]
Khalifa Almuraikhi – Manager –ZUBARA Films at DOHA, Qatar [email protected] / [email protected]
Franco Cristofani – Animation director CArtoone One, Italy
Agogo Ent., Hong Kong [email protected]
Ricardo Lim – AIM Professor Project management -Manila, Philippines
Marc Gomez – Creative Director (Games) Way Forward Technologies - USA
Elmore Warren – CEO, Fresh TV Hamilton , Bermuda [email protected]
Weng BAgadion – Manager Media Farm Global