JANEÉ ROBERTS
Artist & Designer
I'm a passionate artist with the drive use my skills in all things creative, but most of all, I am a storyteller. No matter what medium --whether it be, animation, drawing, or a song-- I tell stories. My goal is to bring to life moments in time within my art that invoke my audience to feel something. Emotions connect us and I love connecting people. I hope you enjoy the stories you find here on my website.
If you smiled at least once, I've done my job!
NICE TO MEET YOU!
Janeé is an animator trained in both digital and traditional arts. Her artistic journey began at an early age of drawing characters and slowly grew into a passion for visuals. She honed her creative skills in sketching and acrylic painting throughout high school and later prided herself in being a self-taught digital painter as well. She was in many clubs in high school but the one that inspired her the most going into college was Graphic Design. She gained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design at her “Home by the Sea” Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia.
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Ultimately her passion for visuals gravitated her towards animation where she discovered her love of storytelling through wordless motion and actions with characters. She decided to get her Master of Fine Art in Animation and VFX at Academy of Art University in San Francisco where she was taught under the animation industry's finest and even worked on the project "Coyote's Place" in the Academy’s collaborative production experience, Studio X. After graduating, she work at BRON Studio on two unreleased series and with Kitestring, Inc. on their short animation, LIKE!.
EXPERIENCE
SKILLS
ANIMATOR
Kitestring, Inc | Like!
Remote -- 2023
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Animated multiple high-quality stylized animation shots.
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Provided polish animation.
Remote -- 2022
BRON Digital | Fables, Gossomer
Creativity
Adaptability
Effective Communication
Teamwork
Organization
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Provided Motion Capture clean-up.
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Provided shot layout and camera animation
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Animated multiple high-quality animation shots with lip sync and sound ques both stylized and realistic.
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Parenting and constraining asset.
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Animated multi-character shots with over 20 characters.
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Created walk, dance and idle cycles.
2019 -- 2020
Studio X | Coyote's Place
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Animated multiple high-quality animation shots with lip sync and sound cues.
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Worked on collaboration shots with other animators on production.
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Provided animation clean-up.
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Problem-solved asset parenting and constraints.
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Imported, exported and combined Maya files.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Autodesk Maya
Autodesk Motionbuilder
Autodesk Shotgrid
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Premiere
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Powerpoint
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Jayy Artistry
Aug 2016 - Present
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Took commissions for Logos, ads and digital portraits.
EDUCATION
ANIMATION & VISUAL EFFECTS
| MFA
Academy of Art University; San Francisco, CA
Fall 2017 - Present; Expected Graduation: Fall 2020
GRAPHIC DESIGN
| BFA
Hampton University; Hampton, VA
Graduated: 2017; Fall 2014 - Spring 2017