contact: edambre@gmail.com

I was born in Paris in 1996, moved to Southern California at the age of 3 and lived there for 12 years. I returned to complete High School in South-Eastern France. I then studied art for animation at Atelier de Sèvres in Paris for a year before starting a degree in animation at Edinburgh College of Art. I am currently studying 3D animation at l’Ecole des Métiers du Cinéma d’Animation in Angoulême, France.

KEY ATTRIBUTES
Competent in a broad range of techniques and mediums in animation and illustration
Ever-curious creative thinker
Confident and courteous communicator and team-worker
Assiduous, punctual, organized and perfectionist

EDUCATION

• 2018-2020 École des Métiers du Cinéma d’Animation, Angoulême, France
• 2015-2018 University of Edinburgh, College of Art
• Jan 2018 – Ap 2018 Emily Carr University of Art and Design
• 2014-2015 Ateliers de Sèvres, Paris

LANGUAGES
French: native speaker; English: native speaker; Japanese: good working knowledge; Russian: basic

SOFTWARE SKILLS
Adobe Creative Cloud (After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere); Animation software (TVPaint, Maya, Duik); Microsoft office package

PAST ANIMATION AND ILLUSTRATION WORK
Animation films have been received at Munster/Berlin Poetry Film Festival 2016; International Videopoetry Festival in Greece 2017; Celtic animation film festival, Liverpool, 2017; CYCLOP International Poetry Film Contest, 2017; World Film Fair, NYC October 26th-31st (2018)

Commissioned music video for Julie Fowlis’ album alterum song ‘A’PHIUTHRAG ‘SA PHIUTHAR’ in collaboration with Dima Nowarah (2018)

Animated projections and set designs for Derek award-winning Aulos Productions’ Gobland for the Goblins, (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2017), Antigone na h’Eireann (June-August 2018), and Le Petit Verre’s Hansel and Gretel (November 2017)

Published illustrations in EUSCI Magazine (July 2017); The Columnist (March 2017); Asylum Aid charity report cover (March 2017); Create_ED Colouring book (Sep 2016)
Produced graphic designs and animated advertisement for Gallery 23’s exhibits, ‘Queer Pop’ (August 2017) and ‘Masquerade’ (Oct 2017)

Character designs for Queen’s University Belfast (Nov 2016) and Edinburgh University Business School (Feb 2017)

 

Examinations taken
June 2014 French Baccalaureate, International Option, scoring 18.35 (equivalent of A*A*A*A*)
(History, Geography, Art, History of Art, Japanese, English Literature, French Literature, Philosophy.)

EMPLOYMENT
May – September 2017
Gallery 23 Graphic design and animation intern – designed exhibit posters and animated ads; helped organize, set up and run exhibits and events
March – September 2017
Gosford House Tour guide – giving tours to private groups and public visitors about the history of the family, house and private art collection
February-September 2016; February- August 2017
University of Edinburgh, Office of Lifelong Learning – English language course mentor for Hong Kong and Japanese universities