Jake Reeves

Experience

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  Carr Haus Cafe

  Sept 2012 - Jun 2015

  Supervisor

  Cafe work, as a supervisor I am responsible for day to day oversight of stock, shipments and general preparation of food and drinks also who deserves free bagels and who doesn't. I consider myself the Robin Hood of Bagels.

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  Muse Paintbar

  Jun 2014 - Aug 2016

  Painter
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  Huffington Post

  Jun 2015 - Dec 2015

  Multimedia Design Fellow
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  Frederator Networks, Inc.

  Jan 2016 - Jun 2016

  Media Intern
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  DreamWorks Animation

  Aug 2016 - Nov 2017

  Graphic Designer
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  Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles

  Nov 2018 - Jan 2022

  Board Of Directors

  From Fall of 2018 through the beginning of 2022 I served as a board member of The Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles in several capacities:Secretary of the Board,November 2018 - December 31st 2019 Web Chair, January 1st 2020 - January 2022VP, Events and Programs January 1st 2021 - January 2022During my time with the organization I worked diligently to further our the philanthropic efforts and pushed for accessibility and community building in the arts. Some key accomplishments during my tenure: - Oversaw an organization wide rebranding effort in collaboration with design firm BBbabble that included a new website and media kit.- Organized regularly occurring community building events in person during from late 2018 through early 2020 - Held and organized several key note conversations and workshops with industry professionals. Through these events we had more than 300 attendees. - Voted forward and co-signed the organizations opening of an investment portfolio alongside Treasurer Jon Messer. - Pushed a key initiative to further equity and accessibility by removing online exhibition fees from our contests. This was a critical problem to solve. We found that students and young-professionals would often win awards in our competitions but couldn't afford the cost to exhibit. In identifying this problem we determined as a board that this fee was outdated and we voted a resolution to repeal the policy.My time with this organization was transformative and beyond educational. It's solidified my desire to serve as an educator and gave me the space to build my confidence and abilities as a community advocate and leader in the arts. Show less

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  Starburns Industries

  Nov 2018 - May 2019

  Character Designer for HarmonQuest Season 3 Character Designer for Galaxy League, a series of animated shorts for the NFL.

  • Character Designer

    Jan 2019 - May 2019

  • Character Designer

    Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
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  ATTN:

  Sept 2019 - Oct 2020

  Your Daily Horoscope, Season 1 (Quibi) In late 2019 I joined ATTN: as the Lead Visual Development Artist for the Your Daily Horoscope pilot. During development I worked with the production team at ATTN: to hire key artists and animators to begin taking the concepts from pitch to production ready. The pilot episodes proved to be succesfful and upon being greenlit by Quibi I was promoted to Art Director to manage the pre-production art teams. During this time we also made a rapid transition to a remote work pipeline due to the COVID19. Without missing a beat, show leadership and I developed our remote work flow and created a process to manage nearly three dozen artists. Due to the small size of the series Production team I was also tasked with taking on responsibilities in hiring, interviewing, writing budget proposals and creating production trackers and maintaining a production calendar.Quibi also presented us with several additional challenges. We had a tremendous volume of work to generate on a day to day basis. We needed to make 60 roughly 2 minute episodes per week. We also needed to create each episode in both a Horizontal and Vertical format.This production became an absolute testing ground for making quick and effective decisions as a Director and gave us a plethora of opportunities to explore complex problem solving. Show less

  • Art Director

    Oct 2019 - Oct 2020

  • Lead Character Designer

    Sept 2019 - Nov 2019
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  Paradise Creative

  Jan 2020 - Feb 2020

  Illustrator
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  DreamWorks Animation

  Apr 2020 - Jun 2020

  Background Designer

  I worked with the development team as a Visual Development artist focusing on Background Design in the early concept stages of an original IP project at DreamWorks TV Animation.

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  Titmouse

  Jul 2020 - Sept 2020

  Character Designer

  Fairfax, Season 1 (Amazon) During my time with Titmouse I worked on the final clean up design of several key characters for the Amazon original animated series, Fairfax.

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  Augenblick Studios

  Feb 2021 - May 2021

  Background Designer

  Teenage Euthanasia, Season 1 (Adult Swim) Swan Boy, Season 1 (Hulu) Working with the team at Augenblick Studios as a Background Layout Artist on Season 1 of Teenage Euthanasia, in production for Adult Swim.Additionally I filled in as a Background Designer for the first season of Swan Boy by Branson Reese

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  Lobster Pot Productions

  Apr 2021 - Jun 2021

  Art Director

  GearSquad vs Dr. Boring (Season 1) - Working with Lobster Pot Productions as the Art Director on an animated streaming series being developed on behalf and in collaboration with Wistia. I worked with the team from the early stages of development and oversaw the hiring of our design and animation teams to execute from concept throuh post production.

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  Titmouse

  Jun 2021 - now

  Art Director

  Royal Crackers, Season 1 (Adult Swim)Royal Crackers, Season 2 (Adult Swim)Cool Cats: The Milk Chug, Season 1Kevin, Season 1 (Amazon)