As a freelance animator, Mike Boas has contributed to short films, commercial projects, narrative features, and documentaries. This encompasses traditional hand-drawn animation, title graphics, special effects and live action clean-up. Each job brings new challenges, and Mike is well versed in melding traditional animation techniques with computer technology.

SKILLS: Hand drawn animation, Flash/Animate, Toon Boom, After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Illustrator.

STYLES: Cartoon, comic book, technical illustration, sketchy, watercolor or marker simulation, animated photographs, motion graphics, cut-out, stop motion.

SELECT CREDITS:

• Animated titles for Quentin Tarantino: The First Eight
• Cartoon animation segments for documentary The Blue Whitetail
• Titles on video release of Army of Darkness (Red Shirt Pictures)
• Titles on video release of Scanners (Criterion Collection)
• Titles on video release of Roger Corman’s Nurses Collection (Shout Factory)
• Titles/segments for documentaries That Guy Dick Miller and American Grindhouse (SXSW premieres)
• Opening titles for The Right Stuff on Blaze TV
• FX animation for features 3.14 and Hero of the Underworld
• Supervising Animator on three Buju & Ziggie Cat Food webisodes for Wegmans Food Markets. Winner of a Bronze Telly.
• Animator and Flash programmer for “Help Mikey Make It Out” interactive fire prevention teaching aid. Winner of an APEX Award for Publication Excellence.
• Supervising Animator on “Clicker Clatter” and “Sirens,” two shorts from director Benjamin Radford.
• Animator for the Dinner Dogs music video, “Totally Me.”
• Contributing animator on Derf the Viking cartoon series for Animatus Studio

See Production Credits for more information.

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Watch the playlist of Mad Dog Movies animation on Youtube.

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