About

Jon Hooper | jonhoops@mac.com

While I currently concentrate on storyboarding, I have had a decades long career in both Feature and TV Animation. I have worked professionally in such varied positions as Compositing, CGI Animation, Layout , Character Design, and Traditional Animation.

Character Animation from over the years.

Work History

Storyboard

Futurama (Reboot) - Rough Draft - Storyboard Artist/Assistant Director

Disenchantment - Rough Draft - Storyboard Artist/Assistant Director

Fired on Mars - Rough Draft - Storyboard Artist/Assistant Director

Transformers Robots In Disguise - Hasbro -Storyboard Artist

Tom & Jerry - Renegade Animation - Board Revisions & Character Layout

Futurama - Rough Draft - Storyboard Artist/Assistant Director

Napoleon Dynamite - Rough Draft - Assistant Director


Sit Down Shut Up - Rough Draft - Storyboard Artist

The Pitts - Rough Draft - Storyboard Artist


The Simpsons TV Show - Film Roman - Storyboard Artist

The Simpsons Theme Park Ride - Film Roman - Story Artist

The Simpsons Movie- Storyboard Artist


Creepy-Mike Young Prod. - Storyboard Artist


The Proud Family- Hyperion - Storyboard Artist


101 Dalmations Series - Disney TV - Storyboard Artist

American Tail Series - Hollywood Cartoons - Storyboard Artist

TV Layout

Futurama - Rough Draft - Character Layout Artist

Ewoks & Droids Series - Nelvana - Character Layout

CGI Feature Animation

Polar Express - Sony Imageworks - CGI Animator


Dinosaur - Disney Feature - CGI Assistant Animator


Kingdom of the Sun - Disney Feature - CGI Assistant Animator

Cats Don’t Dance - Turner - CGI Animator

Traditional Feature Animation

The Simpsons Movie- Assistant Director


Looney Tunes Back in Action - WB - Animator


Cats Don’t Dance - Turner - Animator


PageMaster - Hollywood Cartoons - Animator


A Wish for Wings - Universal - Animator


Rover Dangerfield - Hyperion - Animator

Rock-A-Doodle - Bluth - Animator


All Dogs Go to Heaven - Bluth - Animator


The Land Before Time - Bluth - Animator

American Tail - Bluth - Key Cleanup

The Care Bears Movie - Nelvana - Animator

Computer Compositing

Disenchantment - Rough Draft - Toonz Compositor

Sit Down Shut up - Rough Draft - Toonz Compositor

Futurama - Rough Draft - Toonz Compositor

Cat’s Don’t Dance - Turner Feature Animation -Digital Ink & Paint


Johnny Bravo Pilot - H&B - Animo Compositor


Prelude to Eden - Independent Short - Animo Compositor

Software

Maya, SoftImage, Animo, Toonz, AfterEffects, Flash, Dreamweaver

Photoshop, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, Apple Motion, Final Cut X

Education

Sheridan College - Oakville Ontario Canada Classical Animation

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology - Edmonton Alberta Canada Radio & TV Arts

Jon Hooper | jonhoops@mac.com

Let’s Work Together

Hexley the Platypus unofficial Mascot of Mac OSX Darwin -Created by Jon Hooper