Fakta's portfolio

Hello and welcome!

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Welcome to my online portfolio of animation, design and storyboarding. Feel free to browse through the labels on the right side under the titel Portfolio.

If are interested in hiring me you can contact me: email: morten_lee@hotmail.com

Cheers

Morten Enevoldsen

A little back story on me

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I was born in Seoul, South Korea and was lucky enough to be adopted to Denmark, where I have spent the better part of my life. I also lived in the USA for three years.

When I am not racing towards deadlines, I enjoy playing basketball and cooking. As I work in an office most of the day, I want to make sure my body and mind get enough energy.

I was introduced to animation at a museum in the USA at the age of seven. It was love at first sight. At first, I did not think of taking up animation professionally, but some how I always kept coming back it. My parents always encouaged me to follow my dreams, so I went straight to studying classical drawing after gymnasium. It did not take me long to realise that I had a lot of work ahead of myself, so I spent more than a year working in a supermarked by day and perfecting my drawing skills by night.

I got into The Animation Workshop's Character Animation line on my 2nd try. Unlike most countries, Danish schools are state funded, with the exception of this one. Luckily, my parent had put away some money for me and after very little arguement they agreed to let me spend it on the then 1 year programme. Together with the other students, I worked like a maniac. I came to school at 8a.m every day and worked until 2a.m. every night. I loved every moment of it and I became very good friends with my classmates.

As a rather extraordinary coincidence, The Animation Workshop got state funded while I was attending it. That meant two things; first the school became much cheaper and secondly it now handed out a BA in Character Animation after three and a half years of study. Most of my classmates and I took the admissions tests again and started on the new line.

In Summer 2004, two of my fellow students and I decided to make a short film. You could call it somewhat of a dogmatic animation film, because the whole thing was done in 1 month. So far, it has won 2 animation awards.

During my second year, my girlfriend and I came up with an idea for a VOD site targeting the animation industry. We had come to realise how many high quality animation short films in the world just lay around and collect dust. Together, we structured a business plan and got 200.000 € from a state fund to start up our company.

So in 2007, I graduated with a BA in Character Animation and started working as the Managing Director of BeanstockTV ApS. My girlfriend, who was still at school at the time, assumed the position of Art Director. We hired 3 employees to help make the website and take care of sales and marketing. Unfortunately, once the site was ready to launch, we were unable to find further financing. By end 2007, we had to close shop. Despite the tragic end of this first company, I learned a great deal that I can use for future projects.

After BeanstockTV, I got back to animating. So far, I had several small jobs here and there. Right now, I'm helping my girlfriend finish her final project at The Animation Workshop (http://sheepfilm.blogspot.com). Once that's done, we hope to find work in the animation industry and travel the world.

Resume

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2009 July - Present: Angelo - How Drive Everybody Crazy
Tv-series produced by Teamto, France
Position: 3d Animator

2009 Jan - June: Hareport
Tv-series produced by Teamto, France
Position: 3d animator

2008 Feb – June: Sheep!
Directed By Nicole Gallagher
Short film
Position: Digital 2d animator (tv-paint)

2007 Dec – Feb: Space Monkeys
Graduation Short film from the Danish Film School
by Jan Rahbek
Position: 3d Animator (Maya)

2007 Feb – Oct: BeanstockTV ApS
Manager of daily operations

2006 Sep – Dec: Spunky Productions
Worked on Children Show ”Koekeloere”
Position: Story board artist

2006 feb - july: Lost in the Forest
Bachelor Project – 2d short
Co Directed w/ Jakob Foged & Tore Poulsen
Position: Animation, Storyboard, Script, Editing

2005 nov – feb: Girl through the Telscope
Graduation Short film from the Danish Film School
Director: Niels Bisbo
Position: Animator (3ds Max)

Summer 2004: Knight Film
Independent Short Film
Co-directed w/ Jakob Foged & Christyan Thomsen
Awards won The Hamburg Film Festival: Best Foreign Short Film
Filmstock Film Award: Best Animation
Position: Director, Animator, Compositor

2003 - 2004: Villa, Volvo & Vicki
Fabulab Productions
Director: Andreas Bødker
Position: 2d Animator

Summer 2003: Mr Rivet
Faux Pas Films
Director: Luc Chamberland
Position: 2d Animator

Education

2003 – Feb 2007 Bachlor in Character Animation (3½ year)
- Animation Workshop, www.animwork.dk
2002 Diploma in Character Animation
- Animation Workshop, www.animwork.dk
2001 Diploma in classical drawing
- Animation Workshop, www.animwork.dk

Skills
Autodesk Maya, 3d Studio Max, Animo, Adobe Photoshop CS, Flash, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Plastic Animation Paper, TV-paint

Character design

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Sketches

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Perspective

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Storyboard Reel

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This is a new and revised version of the storyboard I worked on in Amsterdam. The programme was for Dutch National TV. The music was given so my timing was dependant on both the lyrics and the music.

Pan for storyboard

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This is a background for a children's programme, that I did in 2007 for Dutch National TV. Unfortunately this background was never used, but I decided to keep it anyway.

Prop Design

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Classical stuff

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Character Animator Reel

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Showreel can be viewed upon request - morten_lee@hotmail.com