Eachen Chen
Background Supervisor
Skills
Window or Mac // Shotgrid // Scrum methodology // Crew training // Management // Recruitment
Entire Adobe creative suite // Toonboom Harmony // Moho // Blender // Excel
Art direction // Visual Development // Colour design // Layouts // Background Paint
Experience
Matchbox Mountain
Location Desginer - RTE Enchanted Christmas
Oct 2023
Location design on Ad
Lighthouse Studios
Background Painter - Short film
Present
Background Retakes Supervisor - Unannounced TV series
July 2023 - Sept 2023
In charge of dealing with Client retakes for the Layout and Background department.
Background Supervisor - Rick and Morty Season 7 (Green Portal)
Feb 2023 - July 2023
Supervising a team of 4 for half of Season 7 at Lighthouse Studios. In charge of Recruitment, ensuring Backgrounds are painted to a high standard, and solving pipeline issues raised by other departments.
Background Painter - Puffin Rock And The New Friends (Cartoon Saloon)
July 2022 - Nov 2022
Background Painter at Lighthouse Studios for Cartoon Saloon. Background paint and Tidy of psd files for scene prep.
Background Supervisor - Little Ellen (Warner Brothers Animation)
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Supervising a team of 15. Develop pipeline for production. Review and hire talent for the department. Training junior crew up to production standard. Overseeing Layout and Background paint review process for the production.
Background Supervisor - Bob’s Burgers the Movie (Bento Box/ MFW)
Oct 2019 - July 2020
Supervising a team of 5 Background Painters for a 2d family feature film for FOX.
Ensuring Backgrounds are painted to a high standard, and solving pipeline issues raised from other departments.
Designer - Riverdance (Cinesite)
June 2019 - Oct 2019
Designer on 2d segment of “Riverdance” a 3D animated feature. My role encompasses Concept/ colour design of shots. Layout and final line designs, lighting direction for compositing. Background painting, created various mattes and masks for comp and a little bit of previz for composite heavy shots. Moho/ AE production.
Lead Background Painter - Giver A Mouse A Cookie S2 (Amazon)
Oct 2018 – June 2019
Worked on “Give A Mouse A Cookie” season 2 as the lead painter and Assistant Background Supervisor. Painting Key background locations, handling feedback to the team, managing client notes and maintaining effective communication between production and other departments. This is a Toonboom production, using Shotgun as production management.
Background Painter - The Bug Dairies (Amazon)
Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
Background painter on Season 1 of “The Bug Dairies” on Amazon. Toonboom Production.
Mukpuddy
Background Supervisor - The Barefoot Bandits
Apr 2015 – Oct 2017
Sole Location Designer, layout artist and background painter on an Flash 2D animated show “The Barefoot Bandits” for Seasons 01 - 02 aired on TVNZ, and HEIHEI. Supervised all aspects of the background department and asset management of painted elements and props. Flash with some 3d elements / AE production.
Trigger Happy
Digital Artist - IOS APP
Nov 2012 - Mar 2014
Created rigged props, characters, animation and backgrounds content for IOS app “Toonhero” worked with IP from companies like Valve- Portal 2, Jim Henson company, and Hero 108 series using Toonboom.
Education
ILM leadership and management (2020)
Leadership and management accredited course in Ireland.
Diploma, Digital Media (2011) Graduated with distinction
Freelance Animation School, New Zealand
Diploma, Applied Animation (2009 - 2010) Graduated with distinction
Freelance Animation School, New Zealand
Other Courses
Warrior Painters
Laura Bifano Stylizing on the fly (2023)
Kirk Shinmoto Perspective for Background design (2022)
Drawing course on perspective for animation.
Rad How to School (2020- 2022)
Drawing and composition courses at: www.radhowtoclass.com
Kat Tsai – Colour and Light
Peter Chen – Seeing colours!
Kalen Clock – Environment Painting and Composition
Will Weston Online courses (2019 - 2022)
Drawing and composition courses at: https://drawingamerica.com/weston/
Action Storyboarding Workshop with Steven Ahn (2017)
Course on storyboarding for animation.
Schoolism online courses (2017)
Nathan Fowkes, all four courses that were available.
Tonko House, painting with light and colour.
*References available upon request