Professional Experience

DIRECTOR

Get Squirrely  – Assistant Director/ Director of Photography
82 minute animated Theatrical Feature Film.
Awesometown Entertainment 2015

Barbie & Her Sisters in A Ponytale  – Director
Feature length DVD – Mattel Inc.
Arc Productions 2013

Barbie Life In The Dreamhouse – Series Director 17 episodes
Web series – Mattel Inc.
Arc Productions 2012

Yes Virginia – Director Starz Animation
22 minute TV special for CBC/JWT/Macy’s
Starz Animation 2009

Bundle of Joy – Writer/Director
Wrote and directed animated short after winning studio’s first “Pitch Fest”
Starz Animation 2008

Handy Manny – Director
11 minute pilot for children’s TV show – Disney
Dan Krech Productions 2005

Scourge of Worlds: A Dungeons and Dragons Adventure (Special Collector’s Edition) – Director
Additional 16 minutes of animation for 90 minute interactive DVD – Rhino Home Video
Dan Krech Productions 2003

Scourge of Worlds: A Dungeons and Dragons Adventure – Assistant Director
90 minute interactive DVD – Rhino Home Video
Dan Krech Productions 2003

 

ART DIRECTOR

Barbie & Her Sisters in A Ponytale  – Production Designer
Feature length DVD – Mattel Inc.
Arc Productions 2013

Barbie Life In The Dreamhouse – Series Art Director (TV Series short) (29 episodes)
Web series  Mattel Inc.
Arc Productions, 2012

Hoodwinked Too: Hood vs Evil – Art Director Starz Animation
Feature Film – Kanbar Entertainment/The Weinstein Company
Starz Animation 2009

Chop Socky Chooks – Series Art Director Starz Animation (9 episodes)
TV series for Aardman Animation/Decode Entertainment
Starz Animation 2006

The Happy Elf – Art Director
44 minute TV movie/DVD for Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment/NBC
IDT Entertainment 2005

DESIGNER/ MATTE PAINTER

Camelot – Designer/Matte Painter
TV mini series – Starz Entertainment
Starz Animation 2011

Gnomeo and Juliet – Designer
Feature Film – Rocket Pictures/Entertainment One Films
Arc Productions 2010

Everyone’s Hero – Designer
Feature Film: Twentieth Century Fox
IDT Entertainment 2006

ANIMATOR/3D ARTIST

Game Over – Lighter
TV series for Carsey-Werner Productions
Dan Krech Productions 2004

Imax Space Station – Lead Animator/Rigger
3D animated sequence for Imax Film: Imax Corporation
Dan Krech Productions 2002

Joseph King of Dreams – Animator/3D artist
3D animated sequences for feature length direct to DVD – DreamWorks Animation
Dan Krech Productions 1999

The Nuttiest Nutcracker – Lead Animator
48 minute 3D animated direct to DVD – Columbia Tristar Home Video
Dan Krech Productions 1998

COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR

Directed and animated on several award-winning commercials.

Work History

Awesometown Entertainment
Jan 2014 – July 2015

Arc Productions/Starz Animation/IDT Entertainment/DKP Effects/Dan Krech Productions
Dec 1998 – Jan 2014

Spin Productions
Aug 1994 – Dec 1998

Education

Sheridan College, Computer Animation
University of Toronto, Bachelor of Architecture