My name is Dave, and I love cartoons! I've got a lot of energy, talent, and drive. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to create the best work possible.
Massachusetts College of Art Boston, MA. Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2004.
Double Major: Studio for Interrelated Media and Animation
Graduated with Distinction and Departmental Honors.
Design for Animation
- Character design: My style leans towards the playful and outrageous, with a focus on creatures, though I'm quite versatile.
- Show bibles and model sheets: Complete with character biographies, plot ideas, environments, and sample dialogue.
- Complete design process: I've art-directed several professional projects and completed over ten animated shorts. Each project focused on creating characters, plots, and ideas, from sketches to finished animation.
Animation Production
- Outlines and Scripts: Specializing in children's short form content
- Storyboards: Rough thumbnails to finished animatics
- Digital animation and motion graphics: Including traditional Flash Animation, After Effects compositing, and Final Cut Pro editing.
2002-present
Dave Schlafman Studio
Boston, MA
Director/Art Director
- Pileated Pictures: Created and directed The Idiotic Adventures of Philippe and Pierre. A web animated series slated to launch early 2008.
- National Fire Prevention Association: Directed a series of animated educational shorts featuring The UH-OHs
- WGBH Boston: Co-created and developed SNACK! an upcoming broadband series for WGBH
- American Greetings: Directed and animated content for animated greeting E-cards.
- Johnny Cupcakes: Directed a series of five animated spots for advertising and promotional use.
- SafeHands Inc: Created children's branding and characters for the Squirts product line
- Parker Brothers: Developed characters and style for the Trivial Pursuit for Kids animated DVD
- Hasbro: Illustrated characters for in-house marketing toy presentations
- Mollycoddle: Conceptualized and animated three-minute music video
March 2006-present
Soup 2 Nuts
Watertown, MA
Designer/Art Director/Animator
- Developed & art directed fifteen shorts for WGBH's Between the Lions
- Thumbnail artist for The Colossal Adventures of Wordgirl (PBS Kids, Fall 2007)
- Designed characters and props for numerous projects in development
- Served as a designer and animator on Cartoon Networks' Assy McGee
March-July 2005
Derek Garvens Design
San Francisco, CA
Motion Graphics Designer: Hasbro Video Now
- Edited current TV shows' video/animation sequences for DVD games
- Animated text and images for trivia game content
- Best in the Southwest Motion Graphics Festival, 2007
- Current TV Ecospot Contest, 2007
- Animation Block Party, 2007
- Cold Hard Flash, 2007
- Smallcarrot.com, 2007
- MTV U Networks, 2007
- Boston Underground Film Festival, 2006
- Independent Exposure 2006 Premiere, 2006
- New England Film/Video Festival, 2005
- Animation Block Party, Summer 2005
- Apple Store San Francisco, 2005
- Kalamazoo Film Festival Competition, 2005
- South By Southwest Film/Music Festival, 2005
- New England Film/Video Festival, 2004
- Squealing Pegs: MassArt Animation Show, 2004 (Winner, Best of Show 2004)
- Woods Hole Film Festival, 2004
- Kalamazoo Film Festival Panorama, 2003
- Current TV: 60 Seconds to Save the Earth PSA Contest, Grand Prize, 2007
- Best in the Southwest Motion Graphics Festival, Best PSA, 2007
- MassArt Alumni Auction Award/Scholarship, 2004
- Wilhelmina Denning Jackson Award/Scholarship, 2002-2004
- MassArt Alumni Auction Award/Scholarship, 2002
- Art Associates Inc. Art Award/Scholarship, 2001
- Photoshop CS3
- Illustrator CS3
- Flash MX CS3
- InDesign CS3
- After Effects
- Final Cut Pro
- MAC/PC