Sam Wheeler

FREELANCE Animation School Start Date: Mar 2004 End Date: Oct 2005 Position/Title: CGI Tutor Responsibilities/Achievements: NZQA content delivery and support. Curriculum development. UNITEC Student Union Start Date: Nov 2001 End Date: Mar 2004 Position/Title: Editor/publication coordinator Responsibilities/Achievements: Editor of In Unison Magazine for the UNITEC Student Union.Directed two In Unison CD's mastered by Kog TransmissionsEditor/Designer/CDROM's and IT Visual New Zealand Start Date: Jan 2000 End Date: Nov 2001 Position/Title: Manager/Director Responsibilities/Achievements: Management, operations, designer, video production, shop fitting for 4 Third Millennium stores, animator/animation tutor, freelance mac op Loop Magazine Start Date: Nov 1998 End Date: Nov 1999 Position/Title: Designer/mac op/multi-media Responsibilities/Achievements: Cartoonist/illustrator for IN DAH LOOP an entertainment page for LOOP Magazine. Continued on to do advertising, distribution and desktop publishing for LOOP Magazine. Finally conceiving and co-directing the LOOP CD for the September issue to coincide with their first cover price issue. The CD Featured artists such as The New Zealand Youth Choir, Bongmaster, Trinity, Pith Black, Mark de Clive Lowe, Teariki, 50hz, DJ Cuffy, Twin Set, King Kapisi, House of Downtown and Salmonella Dub. Toonz Animation Start Date: Feb 1994 End Date: Jul 1996 Position/Title: Animator Responsibilities/Achievements: Animation and Key Clean-upAnimation (First employee with no formal animation training) Subcontracting to Walt Disney Television on such shows as Tex Tinstar, Pith Possum, Quack Pack, Timon and Pumba (off-shot of the popular children's feature The Lion King), Redux Riding Hood, Third Pig (the only animated episode of Tales From the Crypt).