dAN cASEY

Art Director, Digital Artist, Set Designer

Accomplished Digital Artist and Storyteller with 25+ years of experience in the Motion-Picture and TV industries.

Reel 2020 - WIP

Projects Include:

Steps - Art Director (Nextflix Animation)

Super Girl - (TV) - Production/Set Designer and Lead Artist (Encore Ent.)

Missing Link – Sr. Digital Artist, Sr. Texture Artist, Look Development

Kubo – Production Designer, Set Designer, Look Development

The Boxtrolls – Production Designer, Layout, PreVis.

ParaNorman – VFX Supervisor, Matte Painter, Look Development.

Coraline – Seq. Art Director (Starry Night), Director of Digital Design

Plus: Pre-Production Designer (Environment and Costume) on Laika’s films 6 and 7 (currently on hold)

Past projects also Include: 

Commercial (TV) - Art Director, Animation Director, Sr. Digital Artist, Producer 

The Visitor (TV) - VFX Supervisor, Compositing

The Alchemist's Letter - Art Director, Digital Artist, Compositing

The Mouse that Soared - Lead Creative and Producer, Compositing

First Bloom - FX Lead, Compositing

Fox Kids (Multiple projects) - VFX Supervisor, PVFX Producer, Compositing

Final Fantasy: The Spirit within - Texture Supervisor and Lead Artist

Metropolis Digital – Founder, Partner, Creative Director, VFX Supervisor

Additional skills include: 

Project break Downs, Bids, Day-To-Day Scheduling and Staffing ssessments, with a strong focus on team building.

dIRECTOR oF dIGITAL dESIGN

A few years ago, before the world was masked and hidden away, I had the amazing opportunity to conceive and assemble a tiny group of Artists called the Digital Design Group (DDG). I was able to hand pick craftspeople from multiple disciplines (Modelers and Painters, Animators, and Designers) all in support of bringing the amazing creative of our Directors and Storytellers to light.

In the first two years of the DDG, we created and helped shape, realize, and imagine over 30 visual tests for over 7 stories, with a wide variety of styles and approaches. Sometimes with pure precision and sometimes . . . a little quick and dirty.

We mostly produced from tight and clear concepts, but when that was not the case, we developed the ability to see into our creatives imaginations and help them deliver their ideas to the screen.

Other times I was given the opportunity/challenge of writing, designing, and directing, while staying very hands on as a Digital Artist. My team and I imagined and constructed characters and worlds in service of a producer’s project or a writer’s page.

Here’s a quick sample of this incredible group.

For password please contact Dan Casey @ 503 706-7405 or rallyboardent@gmail.com

Worked with Director Carlos Stevens as Art Director, Designer, Lead Texture Artist, and Sr. Comp.

Worked with Director Kyle Bell as Producer (Responsable for Show Bid, Budget and day to day production tasks), Art Director, Lead Comp, and Texture Lead.

Sets and Props Lead Artist - Sequence Set Designer, Modeler, Texture Artist/Supervisor

CG Supervisor, Designer, Texture Artist, and Comp Lead

Commercial Animation Director, 2D illustrator, and Comp Artist

VFX Supervisor (on set and CG), CG Animation Director, Sr. Texture Artist, and Comp Lead.

Extremely proud to be a part of the VFX team on Missing Link.

This is the breakdown of a handful of shots

My contributions include:

- Modeling and Texturing for western town extensions

- Modeling, and Texture for the VFX Award nominated “Pulteney” (The Big Red Boat), plus Set dressed Props, 

- CG Dressing for McVities Bar (a massive number of Tables, Chairs, Bottles, Ashtrays, Spittoons, Playing Cards, Cigars, Hanging Lamps, Etc.)

 CG set builds and Ring, Sr. Modeler and Texture Artist.