About Me - Damien Labonte – Digital Artist

Damien Paul Labonte

Digital Artist, North Vancouver BC

An avid tech enthusiast, musician, artist, VR/AR geek.

I've been working in the animation industry for 25 years. Mainly I do color styling and final BG painting, but I also have experience in interactive game design, and 2D game work. My side passions are VR gaming, and music.

Specialties

BG Supervision
Key Painting
Color Styling

Experience

Camp Snoopy: Senior Designer at Wildbrain
Sausage Party: Foodtopia at Bardel Entertainment: Matte Paint Supervisor
The Snoopy Show at WildBrain: Master Key Painter
Snoopy In Space at WildBrain: Master Key Painter
The Proud Family at WildBrain: Background Painter
Dorg at WildBrain: Background Painter
Addams Family at Cinesite: Designer on Addams Family.
Concept Artist (Freelance) at Animation Brewery: Designing and color styling of characters, locations, props, fx and more on this top secret project.
Design Supervisor at Titmouse Inc.: Vancouver BC
Currently supervising 24 Layout and Painters on a Dreamworks television series. Past: Painting layouts for a superhero action series. Layout on Breadwinners.
Artistic Lead at "The Prophet" - Bardel Entertainment: Shot approvals in editing, working with Lighting/Comp, assisting with scene setups, helping revise BG/texture issues. Troubleshooting difficult shots with the CG supervisor.

Took the initative to create an "Art of The Prophet" book.
BG Supervisor at "The Prophet" - NMS Studios: Painting layouts with a watercolor style. Managed a BG painting crew, dealing with revisions and client approvals.
Creative Director at Cackleberries: Managed a crew of artists and programmers, creating a very unique online childrens educational website. Created art, animation, sounds and music. Designed games and interactive experiences.
Color Stylist/Key BG painter at "Voltron Force" - EhOk Entertainment: Painted all Key Backgrounds and provided all Character/Prop color for a 26 episode TV series.
Art Director at "Pirate Adventures" - Edutainment Systems: Designed BGs and Props/Color/UX for an educational adventure game
Lead Technical Artist at "TokiWorld" - Bardel Entertainment: Lead technical artist on an interactive children’s website. Flash/Photoshop world and character
creation. Designed and helped implement a highly technical and robust new Avatar system.
Designer at "Wow Wow Wubbzy" - Bardel Entertainment: Designing and only Reviser on this 26 episode preschool Flash animation show.
Color Stylist at "Happily Never After II" - Kickstart Entertainment: Background and Prop/Character Color Styling for a DTV.
Level Art/Cinematic Art at "Shank/Mark of the Ninja" - Klei Entertainment: Shank: Designed art and worked on level design for this popular 2D videogame

Ninja: Created cinematic BG art (freelance)
BG Paint Supervisor/Layout Supervisor at "Chaotic" - Bardel Entertainment: Overseeing Build Team, maintaining paint quality, trained employees to work more efficiently in Photoshop. While in this position, took the initiative to restructure the pipeline for layout/background painting.
at Plus much more...: Full Resume Available upon Request

Skills

Photoshop
Flash
Illustrator
AfterEffects
Premiere
3D Texture
Sound Design
Music
Animation
Graphic Design
Video/Audio Editing
Game Design
Blender