about
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I was born and raised on the plains of central Illinois, surrounded by farm land and open gravel roads. As a kid, my imagination and drawing pads (+ Commodore 64 / Nintendo games) were my go-tos for passing the time.
As I got older, an interest in art continued to grow, so when it was time to choose a major in college I went with Illustration, thinking I might make art for kid’s books. While I earned my Bachelor’s I didn’t take any animation classes but I had access to the school’s computers and taught myself animation in Flash 5 on a Mac. I scanned in drawings, vectorized them in Illustrator, and animated them in Flash.
For the first few years after graduating in 2001, I focused my energy on posting personal animated projects online while I made a little money creating interactive Flash e-cards for a subsidiary of Hallmark called DaySpring. The dream of creating my own short films and other experiments and sharing them on the bourgeoning creative landscape of the internet was incredibly exciting to me (I am slowly building an archive of sorts of all that old stuff on my personal site if you’re interested).
Now its 25+ years later, I live in Portland OR with my wife and 2 kids, and After Effects has long been my tool of choice. I have created animated work for a variety of clients and worked with many wonderful teams of people over this stretch of time. I would love to hear from you if there’s a project you feel I could help out on!
Site by me in: Nova using HUGO
Fonts: iA Writer Mono / Format 1452
Personal Site: vancereeser.com