Resumé / CV

Silvia Hoefnagels (aka SalixTree)

art blog: http://imaginaryality.blogspot.com/ Also at Deviant Art: http://salixtree.deviantart.com/

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Resumé / CV :

2010 to present: Writing and illustrating children's books 
"Elfleda-Fae and Kiwi-Sprite" series: books about a faerie and her kiwi friend
SalixEyas series: collaboration of myself as illustrator and Roberto Di Falco as writer 
Silvia's Amazon
 
Pants On Fire Press: illustration for the Ozette books by Judy Pierce
Pants On Fire Press

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2001-2010
Skinner/texture artist (as SalixTree) for Parsimonious: http://www.parsimonious.org/

2001-2008 Freelance Animator (Dublin Ireland) various ads, TV promos, webdesign, and artwork including:

Johnny Fox Pub ad, Surf (washing powder) ad, with Monster Productions
"Katey Baloney" TV promo with Gary O'Neil
"Bunny vs Monkey" TV promo with Kavaleer Animation
"3 Wise Men" Feature Animation with Cartoon Saloon
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1997-2004 Classical Animation Tutor at Ballyfermot College...................................................................................

1997-2001 TerraGlyph (Dublin Ireland)

Animation on feature "Duck Ugly"

Animation on "Help! I'm a Fish"

Animation on feature "Carnivale"
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1996-1997 Freelance Animator (Dublin Ireland)

Animation on pilot "Tor" (For Monster Productions)

Animation on feature "The Quest For Camelot" (For WB)

Animation for Disney CD-ROM Game "Hercules" (for Creative Capers),

Storyboard, Design, Direction and Animation
on short "The Yellow Man" (for Capstone Productions)

Animation on feature "Anastasia" (for Fox Animation, USA)

Animation on feature "Hugo II" (For A-Film)
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1995-1996 Monster Productions (Dublin)

Animation Director

part of "Wind in the Willows" (for TVC, London)

part of feature "Werner II" (for Trickompany, Hamburg)

Anti-smoking ad (for Uli Meyer, London)
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1994-1995 Screen Animation (Dublin) / MGM

Directing Animator on "All Dogs Go To Heaven II"...................................................................................

1985-1994 Don Bluth Studios / Sullivan Bluth Studios - Dublin)

Directing Animator : 1992 - 1994 Feature Films

The Pebble and the Penguin
Animator : 1987 - 1992 Feature Films

Land Before Time

All Dogs go to Heaven

Rock a Doodle

Stanley's Secret Garden

Thumbelina


Key Assistant Animator : 1985 - 1987 Feature Films

An American Tail

Land Before Time

All Dogs go to Heaven
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1992 With Gary Goldman

Animation on "The Thief and the Cobbler",

1975 -1985 Dourmashkin Productions, (Los Angeles) :

Childrens Films for Film Fair, Television spots and
commercials
"Isabella and the Magic Brush" for Film Fair
( won the Ruby Slipper Award )

1983 Hallinan Plus Productions, (Los Angeles) :

Animation on "Sound of Sunshine, Sound of Rain" for Film
Fair ( Academy Award Nomination )


1979 - 1982 Robert Story Company, (Los Angeles) :

Television Spots and Commercials.
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Education

School of Visual Arts, New York City : 1971 - 1975
B. A. Degree Media Arts/Animation Major