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Mara Ungureanu
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Adobe After Effects

Biography

Born in Romania and raised in Portugal, I grew up surrounded by art, culture and different languages. I mastered top of my class in computer animation and then went on and did a professional course of visual development in Rome. During the past 5 years, I've been grabbing every oportunity that appears, mostly as a freelance, having worked as animator and/or visdev artist in 3 shorts, a tv series and several smaller projects, and then i was employed for almost a year as a 2d animator at Zedem Media Animations, just until the pandemic stroke.

Skills

Roles

  • Advanced
  • Basic

Software

  • Advanced
  • Intermediate
  • Basic
  • Basic
  • Basic

Work Experience

2019 – 2020

2D Animator

Zedem Media Animation (Cyprus)
I started by doing motion graphics on aftereffects for commercials, then animation for a short with Adobe Animate and then I was put in charge of animating/supervising a series done with toonboom.

2017 – 2017

2d Animator & Visual Development artist

Bomtempo Animation Studios (freelance) (Porto, Portugal)
I did the visual development and animation (tv paint) for an institutional videoclip for children.

2016 – 2017

2d Animator & Visual Development artist

Bomtempo Animation Studios (freelance) (Porto, Portugal)
A small production for a musical tv series called "Camila" with live action and animation, in which i had to do a bit of everything, with very tight deadlines. I animated on tvpaint.

2015 – 2016

Head of background design

Freelance (Porto, Portugal)
Head of background design for "The amazing Ordinary Man", a short by Paulo Portugal.

2015 – 2015

Inbetweener & Clean up

Bando à Parte (Porto, Portugal )
Internship doing inbetweens and clean up for traditional animation short "Fim de linha" by Paulo D'Alva

Education

2017 – 2018

Certificate

IDEA Academy - Rome

Visual Development

2013 – 2015

Masters

Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Escola das Artes

Computer Animation