Daniel Courtney

Background

About Daniel Courtney

I studied animation for five years, and graduated in 2010. In 2011, I got my first position at Jolt Online Gaming as a Junior Artist, later I was offered the Lead Artist position at Open Emotion Studios. A year later I ended up as an Animation Intern for Gotcha Ninjas, a start up company that specialized in promoting positive behaviour in the children's classroom. I then spent a few years in and out of hospital recovering from a long term near fatal illness, all the while being a Freelancer for a few companies doing layout work, background design and compositing! Started work at Giant Animation in 2017 as a compositor/matte painter up to Jan 2019, went back to Freelance, recently I worked on some side projects in Giant Animation as a freelancer and video editing/compositing for clothing companies! Specializations: Layout, Background design in Photoshop. Compositing in After Effects/Nuke. Concept Art and Storyboarding in Photoshop and Illustrator. Video editing in Premiere, and 2D classical animation.