Les Major Brooklyn, NY les@animajor.net EXPERIENCE 2021-24 FRAMESTORE 'DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE’ RODEO FX 'AVATAR-THE LAST AIRBENDER’ Netflix series ZERO VFX ‘CHALLENGERS’ ‘THE INSTIGATORS’ FRAMESTORE 'MONARCH:LEGACY OF MONSTERS’ AppleTV - Creatures DIGITAL DOMAIN 'WAKANDA FOREVER’ ‘BLUE BEETLE’ CO3/METHOD ‘THOR:LOVE & THUNDER’ / Short form projects COSA VFX ‘LUCIFER’ ‘AREA 81’ Episodics - character/creature animation DIGITAL DOMAIN 'WANDAVISION’ ‘COD Mobile trailer’ ‘SIMS commercial’ DREAMSCAPE IMMERSIVE Creature animation for a VR experience 2019/20 MYTHVFX ‘CREATION OF THE GODS 1: KINGDOM OF STORMS’ Development/previs/postvis/mocap/final animation of creatures and humanoids for a Chinese feature film project. 2017/19 JAMM Character animation commercial METHOD 'FILTHY’ - Dancing robot for Justin Timberlake music video MILL LA Final Fantasy XV spots - Creatures and characters ZERO VFX Character animation commercials and film / Previs projects METHOD 'GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2' Animation / Target commercial 2015/16 MPC Character animation -’Pistachios’ / Previs film projects / VR project LOGAN Fantasy creatures project - Previs/Layout/Final animation SONY - SCEA Lead cinematics animator for ‘UNCHARTED 4’ 2015/16 PROOF INC 'PETE’S DRAGON' Postvis ‘CALL OF DUTY-BLACK OPS 3’ Previs ‘TARGET SPECTACULAR’ 2013-2015 DIGITAL DOMAIN 'JUNGLE BOOK' Previs/Postvis animated creatures and mocap humans with the Virtual production team using Motionbuilder and Maya 'MALEFICENT' Digital double and wing animation for main flying character ‘INFAMOUS 3 - SECOND SON’ Game cinematics ‘LARA CROFT-RISE OF THE TOMB RAIDER’, ‘MURDERED-SOUL SUSPECT’, ‘LOTR- SHADOW OF MORDOR’,,‘SCALEBOUND’ - Game trailers ‘MEDAL OF HONOR-WARFIGHTER’ Game cinematics - Hyper real humans 2012/13 THE THIRD FLOOR DIGITAL SANDBOX MPC LOGAN ‘GODZILLA‘ - Previs - City battle sequence ‘CHASING MAVERICKS‘ - Keyframe digital double - Hero surfer wipeout ‘BARBIE‘ DVD feature - Character animation and finishing ‘NIKE MISSIONS‘ Cinematic - Previs/keyframe character animation 2011/12 PIXOMONDO ‘TERRANOVA' TV series - Dinosaurs and other creature animation ‘HUNGER GAMES’ ‘GRIMM’ ‘AFTEREARTH’ ‘300-RISE OF AN EMPIRE’ ‘MERMAID TEST’ - Animation, previs, rigging and effects 2011 RHYTHM AND HUES 'ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS - CHIPWRECKED' Character animation SONY PICTURES IMAGEWORKS 2011 'GREEN LANTERN' Character animation 2001-2009 'G-FORCE' Character animation (keyframe) 'BEOWULF' Lead animator responsible for 9 sequences 'I AM LEGEND' 'MONSTER HOUSE' 'POLAR EXPRESS‘ Mocap animation 'STUART LITTLE 2' Character animation DIGITAL DOMAIN 2010/11 'REAL STEEL' Creature and robot animation 2008 'MUMMY 3' Animation of Emperor and terracotta warriors 2004 'DISNEYLAND 50th ANNIVERSARY' Commercial – Animation and rigging Eric Goldberg animation supervisor 2010/11 Freelance METHOD Canon “Stars”, HP “Baby” commercials - animation MPC Aviva “Paper People” commercial, rigging/animation ENTITY FX Creature test, rigging 2009-2010 ASYLUM FX 'SORCERERS APPRENTICE' Animation of eagle, dragons, butterflies. 1998-2001 WALT DISNEY FEATURE ANIMATION 'DINOSAUR' Animation of Zini and other lemurs 'WILDLIFE' Tests and training for this unreleased CG feature 1998 WARNER BROS. FEATURE ANIMATION 'IRON GIANT' CG character animation of the Giant 1994-1998 PIXAR 'TOY STORY' 'A BUG’S LIFE’ Over six minutes of character animation Toy Story CD-ROMs and shorts for ABC Saturday Morning. 1994 INDUSTRIAL LIGHT AND MAGIC ‘THE MASK’ Animation 1993 RHYTHM AND HUES 'HOCUS POCUS' - Animation and rendering of talking cat integrated with live action 'COCA-COLA ICE' ‘RAYOVAC’ Commercials - Lead animator/TD 1988-1992 FREELANCE ANIMATION Commercials, theme park film, and broadcast in Canada, Australia, Japan and Korea. Generalist using Prisms (Houdini), Wavefront, Softimage and Alias 1987-1988 ARCCA ANIMATION Toronto ‘CAPTAIN POWER’ First CG characters in a TV series Animated robot characters - wrote IK, animation and pipeline tools 1984-1987 OMNIBUS/ABEL COMPUTER GRAPHICS Toronto Generalist animator/TD in C/Unix environment 1982-1983 MOBILE IMAGE Toronto Computer animation for video production house 1980-1981 FILM EFFECTS Toronto Special effects film animation and optical compositing EDUCATION 1977-1981 BACHELOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (Architecture) University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada A degree in architecture that covered a wide range of topics in design, art history, and technical subjects. Strong emphasis on three-dimensional design and drawing, problem solving and project management 1981-Now Courses in Computer Character Animation, Storyboarding, Film Studies, Geometry for Computer Graphics, C programming Richard Williams Animation Master Class Disney foundation courses - life drawing, gesture drawing, sculpture and painting Pixar and Sony Imageworks

Les Major Brooklyn, NY les@animajor.net

EXPERIENCE

2021-24 FRAMESTORE 'DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE’

RODEO FX 'AVATAR-THE LAST AIRBENDER’ Netflix series

ZERO VFX ‘CHALLENGERS’ ‘THE INSTIGATORS’

FRAMESTORE 'MONARCH:LEGACY OF MONSTERS’ AppleTV - Creatures

DIGITAL DOMAIN 'WAKANDA FOREVER’ ‘BLUE BEETLE’

CO3/METHOD ‘THOR:LOVE & THUNDER’ / Short form projects

COSA VFX ‘LUCIFER’ ‘AREA 81’ Episodics - character/creature animation

DIGITAL DOMAIN 'WANDAVISION’ ‘COD Mobile trailer’ ‘SIMS commercial’

DREAMSCAPE IMMERSIVE Creature animation for a VR experience

2019/20 MYTHVFX ‘CREATION OF THE GODS 1: KINGDOM OF STORMS’

Development/previs/postvis/mocap/final animation of creatures and

humanoids for a Chinese feature film project.

2017/19 JAMM Character animation commercial

METHOD 'FILTHY’ - Dancing robot for Justin Timberlake music video

MILL LA Final Fantasy XV spots - Creatures and characters

ZERO VFX Character animation commercials and film / Previs projects

METHOD 'GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2' Animation / Target commercial

2015/16 MPC Character animation -’Pistachios’ / Previs film projects / VR project

LOGAN Fantasy creatures project - Previs/Layout/Final animation

SONY - SCEA Lead cinematics animator for ‘UNCHARTED 4’

2015/16 PROOF INC

'PETE’S DRAGON' Postvis ‘CALL OF DUTY-BLACK OPS 3’ Previs

‘TARGET SPECTACULAR’

2013-2015 DIGITAL DOMAIN

'JUNGLE BOOK' Previs/Postvis animated creatures and mocap humans

with the Virtual production team using Motionbuilder and Maya

'MALEFICENT' Digital double and wing animation for main flying character

‘INFAMOUS 3 - SECOND SON’ Game cinematics

‘LARA CROFT-RISE OF THE TOMB RAIDER’, ‘MURDERED-SOUL SUSPECT’,

‘LOTR- SHADOW OF MORDOR’,,‘SCALEBOUND’ - Game trailers

‘MEDAL OF HONOR-WARFIGHTER’ Game cinematics - Hyper real humans

2012/13 THE THIRD FLOOR DIGITAL SANDBOX MPC LOGAN

‘GODZILLA‘ - Previs - City battle sequence

‘CHASING MAVERICKS‘ - Keyframe digital double - Hero surfer wipeout

‘BARBIE‘ DVD feature - Character animation and finishing

‘NIKE MISSIONS‘ Cinematic - Previs/keyframe character animation

2011/12 PIXOMONDO

‘TERRANOVA' TV series - Dinosaurs and other creature animation

‘HUNGER GAMES’ ‘GRIMM’ ‘AFTEREARTH’ ‘300-RISE OF AN EMPIRE’

‘MERMAID TEST’ - Animation, previs, rigging and effects

2011 RHYTHM AND HUES

'ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS - CHIPWRECKED' Character animation

SONY PICTURES IMAGEWORKS

2011 'GREEN LANTERN' Character animation

2001-2009 'G-FORCE' Character animation (keyframe)

'BEOWULF' Lead animator responsible for 9 sequences

'I AM LEGEND' 'MONSTER HOUSE' 'POLAR EXPRESS‘ Mocap animation

'STUART LITTLE 2' Character animation

DIGITAL DOMAIN

2010/11 'REAL STEEL' Creature and robot animation

2008 'MUMMY 3' Animation of Emperor and terracotta warriors

2004 'DISNEYLAND 50th ANNIVERSARY' Commercial – Animation and rigging

Eric Goldberg animation supervisor

2010/11 Freelance METHOD Canon “Stars”, HP “Baby” commercials - animation

MPC Aviva “Paper People” commercial, rigging/animation

ENTITY FX Creature test, rigging

2009-2010 ASYLUM FX

'SORCERERS APPRENTICE' Animation of eagle, dragons, butterflies.

1998-2001 WALT DISNEY FEATURE ANIMATION

'DINOSAUR' Animation of Zini and other lemurs

'WILDLIFE' Tests and training for this unreleased CG feature

1998 WARNER BROS. FEATURE ANIMATION

'IRON GIANT' CG character animation of the Giant

1994-1998 PIXAR

'TOY STORY' 'A BUG’S LIFE’ Over six minutes of character animation

Toy Story CD-ROMs and shorts for ABC Saturday Morning.

1994 INDUSTRIAL LIGHT AND MAGIC

‘THE MASK’ Animation

1993 RHYTHM AND HUES

'HOCUS POCUS' - Animation and rendering of talking cat integrated with live action

'COCA-COLA ICE' ‘RAYOVAC’ Commercials - Lead animator/TD

1988-1992 FREELANCE ANIMATION

Commercials, theme park film, and broadcast in Canada, Australia, Japan and Korea.

Generalist using Prisms (Houdini), Wavefront, Softimage and Alias

1987-1988 ARCCA ANIMATION Toronto

‘CAPTAIN POWER’ First CG characters in a TV series

Animated robot characters - wrote IK, animation and pipeline tools

1984-1987 OMNIBUS/ABEL COMPUTER GRAPHICS Toronto

Generalist animator/TD in C/Unix environment

1982-1983 MOBILE IMAGE Toronto

Computer animation for video production house

1980-1981 FILM EFFECTS Toronto

Special effects film animation and optical compositing

EDUCATION

1977-1981 BACHELOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (Architecture)

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

A degree in architecture that covered a wide range of topics in design,

art history, and technical subjects. Strong emphasis on three-dimensional

design and drawing, problem solving and project management

1981-Now Courses in Computer Character Animation, Storyboarding, Film Studies,

Geometry for Computer Graphics, C programming

Richard Williams Animation Master Class

Disney foundation courses - life drawing, gesture drawing, sculpture and painting

Pixar and Sony Imageworks - internal development courses