Fashion Design with Marie B.

Self-Employed

I have been working as a freelance designer, making garments, from patterns all the way to sewing the samples for a children's line start-up. I am currently working on a capsule contemporary line for women's . I am also developing a small accessories collection for women made of recycled vintage kimonos, and exotic fabrics.

Self-Employed

I am providing private sewing lessons to adults and children. I have helped some students with their home decoration projects, and helped two students design and make their dog clothing line. I have a long-term students that want to learn how to make their own garments, adjust their patterns, or make their own designs and patterns. I have been teaching beginner sewing lessons to kids, including how to use and thread their sewing machine, and make fun projects from stuffed animals to clothing.

Walt Disney Animation Studio

I assed the training needs of productions, and designed, and taught customized lessons for all of the animation departments on commercial software such as Maya, Photoshop, Harmony, and Shake. I worked with the software department to write documents and tutorials for their proprietary software, and taught group classes, and one-on-one as needed on different productions. I trained new employees so they can get up and running with in-house software and plug-ins. I also trained traditional Animators to animate on the computer.

National Animation and Design Center (Canada)

Taught one-on-one classes for industry professional in Montreal. Trained game animators at the late game company Psygnosis in Liverpool (later SCE Studio Liverpool).

Softimage (Canada)

Developed Softimage's training material and turorials. Lead trainers training and certification sessions in Asia for Softimage vendors in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Tokyo, Japan, as well as in Los Angeles, Atlanta and at Vancouver Film School.

CineGroupe (Canada)

Supervised the scanning and computer Ink and Paint day team. Input camera moves in the Xsheet and integrated layers of 3D renders with 2D drawings using PixiBox Pegs on an animated television show "L'Aventure de L'Écriture".

Pascal Blais Studio, Michael Mills Studio, Cinar (Canada)

Worked freelance: painted animation cells, creating color models, mixed paints and did the color check for various animated TV commercials and animated series episodes (The Little Lulu Show).

National Animation and Design Center, Montreal, Canada

Fashion Institute of Design and Mercandising

Life Mastery Institute

Native Proficiency

Native Proficiency