WOOHOO My new mentor is Fredrik Nilson

No email!! I had to go to the site!! I wonder how long it had been up.

Anyway about Fredrik

Fredrik is currently an animator for Dreamworks Animation in Glendale, CA. He has most recently worked on "Madagascar" & "Over the Hedge" and is currently working on a film called "Kung Fu Panda". In 1993, he started out at RGA in New York as an intern, and moved up to work in various roles on several different commercials, movie titles and logos. After having the opportunity to animate commercials he realized that character animation was his calling.. In 1995, he moved to San Francisco to work for PDI. He worked on "The Simpsons 3D", "Halls Penguins commercials", "Marvin the Martian in 3D", "Pillsbury Doughboy commercials" and several other projects. Once Dreamworks entered the picture he worked on both "Antz" and "Shrek". In 2000, he moved to Dallas, Texas to work for a video game company called ID Software where he was the lead animator on "Doom 3". He animated monster cycles, weapon cycles, player cycles (with some mocap), cinematics, teasers, trailers etc. When Doom 3 wrapped he realized he enjoyed playing the games more then actually making them. In 2005, he returned to his true calling, working on feature character animation at Dreamworks.