Frédéric Bussière

fredbussiere@hotmail.com                                                                                            DOB: 11 March 1983
+33 6.75.19.81.43                                                                                                          Nationality: French

Education
Sept 04 - June 08. Emile Cohl Art School, Lyon, France. 4 year Art program, animated cartoons section.
• Graduated of the officially recognized private art-education institute. Animated cartoons, computer graphics-multimedia, illustration and strip cartoons

Sept 03 - June 04. Bellecour School, Lyon, France. 1 year Art program.
• Multidisciplinary artistic formation

Sept 01 - June 03. Pierre Mendes France University, IUT 2, Grenoble, France. Higher National Certificate in Computer Science (2 year technical degree)
• Programming and data modeling

June 2001. Albanais High School, Rumilly, France. Baccalaureate, specialization: science (equivalent: A-level).

Professional Experience
Sept 2008-Dec 2009. Designer and animator of a short movie. Faivre Hnos Estudio, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Conception (storyboard, animatic, graphic designs, animation tests), animation, compositing and editing one of the four shorts that make up the long feature of animation “Anima Buenos Aires”. First screenplay in theaters 2010.

July-August 2008. Webdevelopper. Idep Multimedia, Lyon, France.
• Webmastering and development of commercial websites.

July-August 2007. Animator and character designer. Reelworks Animation Studio Inc, Minneapolis, USA.
• Layout, animation and direction of one of four animated short movies for the United States Postal Service Safety Campaign
• Design of the characters for the four episodes
• Supervision of assistant animators

July-August 2006. Take-out Assistant. Häagen-Dazs Cafe, London. (summer job)
• Responsible for take-out service
• Made creams, served customers, managed tills cash management, cleaned respect to rules of hygiene, ordered supplies

June-July-August 2001-2005.Telephone receptionist. France Telecom, Annecy, France. (summer jobs)
• Responsible for customer after-sales service
• Tested analogical and numerical lines and diagnosis, managed appointment, worked in a team

May-June 2003. Software developer. Hydrology Laboratory, Grenoble, France. (internship)
• Responsible for the complete development of a software of water collection
• Conducted needs study and analysis of preceding work, designed and made a Palm software, carried out operational simulation, tests

Exhibitions and publications

June 2008. Animation festival of Annecy, France. Showing of the short « Sauve qui touffe » and « Le coup de Jarnac », in special programs

Mars 2008. Animation festival “Carrefour de l’animation”, Paris, France. Showing of the short « Le coup de Jarnac »

November 2007. Cité scolaire internationale - “[label]bêtes”  exhibition, Lyon, France. Selected group art exhibition

May 2007. Musée africain – “En terre inconnue, regards des missionnaires sur l’Afrique”  exhibition, Lyon, France. Painting of a fresco

2005-2007. Mikromix Fanzine. publications of comic strips

December 2006. Guimet Museum - “Frontières” exhibition, Lyon, France. Selected group art exhibition

June 2006. “16ème Salon des Artistes” exhibition, Rumilly, France. Selected group art exhibition

Spring 2005. Ninkasi Café - “Courts métrages” soiree, Lyon, France. Short films projection

Activities
2004-2008. Emile Cohl Student Body member : involved in the organization of student events, responsible of the cineclub, travel abroad and cultural events with the city of Lyon, cash management

2003-2004. Bellecour School Association founder and president : responsible of the events and travel organization

Interests:
art exhibitions • drummer in a rock band • climbing

References Available on request