Kat Bakonyi
Animator, director, writer, costume designer
Freelance experience
Director/Writer/Animator, Agent Anything Inc 2011-Current
Full production of four 2D animated commercials for Agent Anything Inc.
Director/Writer/Animator, UCLA Animation Workshop, 2008-Current
Full production of independent 2D animated short film, “Odd Couples”.
Animator, USC Interactive Media Division 2010-2011
Produced freelance animation for Diane Tucker's kinect game “Mother Nature”, including flowers, a spider, a squirrel and a snake. A review at Kotaku.
Director/Writer/Animator, UCLA School of Film and TV, 2011
Full production of stop-motion animated short (“Cyborg Detective BAR-B”) for Mattel's first annual Barbie Film Festival.
Director/Writer/Animator, UCLA Animation Workshop, 2010-2011
Full production of of a 2D animated short, “Funeral”, my thesis film at UCLA.
Opening sequence End credits
Teaching Assistant, UCLA, 2010-2011
Assisted professor Lynn Okimura in teaching FTV 488A and 488B (Interactive/Flash Animation). Performed support tasks for professor (prepared class materials), maintained class website and lesson files, supervised students during office and lab hours, guided students through production of assignments, advised and critiqued student work.
Director/Writer/Animator/Programmer, UCLA Animation Workshop, 2008-2009
Full production of a retro point-and-click adventure game, “Huntin' With Eagle Joe” in Flash.
Director/Writer/Animator, UCLA Animation Workshop, 2007
Full production of a 2D animated short film, “A Day at the Races and a Night at the Shoe Store”, drawn on paper, digital ink and paint in Cambridge Animation System's Animo.
Costume Designer, UCLA School of Film and TV, 2007
Designed and purchased costumes for Noel Diaz de Rivera's film “Jake”.
Costume Designer/On-Set Wardrobe Coordinator, UCLA School of Film and TV, 2007
Designed, purchased and constructed costumes, props and wigs for Justin Wolske's thesis film, “Unending Hell”. Also on-set maintenance and supervision of wardrobe for entire cast.
Costume Designer, UCLA School of Film and TV, 2007
Designed and rented costumes for Gabby Gruen's film “Hamlet vs. Goodzilla”.
Skills
Traditional 2D animation, animal and human movement, lip-synch, storyboarding, editing, timing/x-sheets, stop-motion animation, costume and prop design and creation, costume history and research/re-creation, sculpture, photography, voice-over.
Languages: English, Hungarian, some Spanish
Computer skills
Microsoft Word (95 wpm), Microsoft Office, comfortable with both Mac and PC operating systems, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Toon Boom, Final Cut Pro, Sony Vegas Video, After Effects, basic Maya.
Training
UCLA Animation Workshop - Andreas Deja - Character Animation
UCLA Animation Workshop - Tom Sito - Character Animation
UCLA Animation Workshop - Glen Villpu - Life Drawing
UCLA Animation Workshop - Robert N. Skir - Script writing for Animation
UCLA Animation Workshop - Keith Rouse - Legal issues in Animation
Public Showings/Publications
Skymall is Magic A blog detailing the absurd luxury products available via Skymall.
April 15, 2011 "Cyborg Detective BAR-B" 1st Annual Barbie Film Festival, UCLA
June 6, 2010 Article “The Influence of Japanese Animation on Avatar: The Last Airbender” published in Animatrix: A Journal of the UCLA Animation Workshop
February 28, 2009 "Jack and the Sea Monster" A script for the Samurai Jack TV show, written for Bob Skir's writing class.
June 6, 2009 Trailer for “Odd Couples” UCLA Festival of Animation
June 7, 2008 “A Day at the Races and a Night at the Shoe Store” UCLA Festival of Animation
March 16, 2006 “Smoking Vegetation” Senior Undergraduate Exhibition, UCI Art Gallery
January 13, 2005 “Utilitarian” Undergraduate Select Exhibition, UCI Art Gallery
Education
2006-2011 University of California, Los Angeles, School of Film and TV, MFA in Animation
2002-2006 University of California, Irvine B.A. degree in Studio Art