QIN LENG
285 Mutual Street unit 403
Toronto, Ontario
M4Y 3C5 Canada
[email protected], (416)230-5891
Education
Bachelor degree in Film Animation GPa 3.95/4.03
Skills
- Language: French, English, and Chinese written and spoken
- Artistic
Character design, 2D animation, mastering the use of the wacom tablet, ability with Bolex camera, and Oxberry
Mastering Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, CTP, Flash, Maya 7 (3D animation, modelling, rigging, and texturing), Final Rig, ToonBoom Studio and Harmony, and ProTools.
Work Experience
- Yowza Animation (Dec 2008 to Sept 2009)
Ink and paint artist
Worked on the Disney Feature Film “The Princess and the Frog”
Ink and paint work using ToonBoom Harmony
REF: Claude Chiasson and Sonya Carey
- CORE Digital Pictures(September 2008)
2D design artist
Worked as a designer for the television show ‘Five Boys and a Garden Hose.
In charge of character and layout design, using Flash
- Les Sens de la Culture Chinoise (May 2008 to June 2008)
A performance event in collaboration with The Festival of Chinese Culture of Montreal and The Confucius Institute of Quebec
Designer and animator
In charge of the background design and animation (classical animation and designs
done in Photoshop) and publicity (designing of the poster with Photoshop).
- CORE Digital Pictures(October 2006 to June 2008)
2D design artist
Worked as a designer for the television show ‘Super WHY’.
In charge of character and layout design, using photoshop.
REF:Production Manager Jan Stephenson, Art Director Davian Bobrowska
- Fluorescent Hill (Summer 2006)
Compositor
Worked as a compositor in after effects and toon boom on the commercial ‘Burger King Stackers’ (camera moves, scanning, coloring, doping, vectorizing, clean up…)
REF:Directors Johanne St-Marie and Mark Lomond
- National Film Board of Canada(Winter 2004 to winter 2005)
Assistant animator on 2 films:
Belinda Oldford‘s “Come Again in Spring” and Lillian Chan’s “Jaime Lo, Small and Shy” (part of the series ‘Tale Spinners 2’).
In charge of concept design for specific scenes, in betweening, clean-up, coloring, using classical animation techniques and Adobe Illustrator and Corel Painter.
REF:directors Lillian Chan and Belinda Oldford, Producers Marcy Page and Micheal Fukushima
Work and Awards
- Short Film ‘Ends of the String’ screened at the BIKI International Childrens’ Film Festival
(Summer 2009)
- Short Film ‘Ends of the String’ screened at the Stuttgart International Animation Film Festival
(Spring 2007)
- Short Film ‘Ends of the String’ screened at the Festival des films du Monde (FFM)
(Summer 2006.)
- Short Film ‘Ends of the String’ screened at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF)
(Summer 2006.)
- Short Film ‘Ends of the String’ screened at the New York International Children’s Film Festival
(Winter 2007.)
- 1st prize winner of the IMAF (UK) animation competition in the student category for best character design.
(Summer 2005.)
- Short Film “Side Effects”, 1st prize winner of the IMAF (UK) animation competition in the student category for best animated film.
(Summer 2005.)
- Short Film “Oiseaux de Malheur”, screened at the Concordia Arts Matters 2006 festival.
(Spring 2006.)
- Short Film “Side Effects”, nominated at the MSFF (Montreal Student Film Festival)
(Spring 2004.)
- First price winner of the Teletoon Scholarship Award in category of first year Animation students in Canada.
(Summer 2004)
- Recipient of the Sean Wall Scholarship at Concordia University
For my outstanding achievement in the first year at Concordia in the Cinema
Department (Highest average grade in the Cinema Department)
(Summer 2004)
- Recipient of the De Sève Award
For my overall outstanding academic achievement in Film Animation at
Concordia University
(Summer 2004)
- Eligible for the Golden Key Society
A prestigious society for students of outstanding academic achievement.
Society of international reputation.
(2004)
- Eligible for the Garnet Key Society
Honour society for students of outstanding academic achievement
(2004)
