1. KENDRA WILLIFORD 2D ANIMATOR/CHARACTER DESIGNER
5591 Rose Carswell Rd Ÿ Morganton, NC 28655 Ÿ (828) 443-5523
willifordkc@gmail.com Ÿ http://willifordkc.wix.com/kendrawilliford
SKILLS Traditional Animation Character Design
Layout Design Background Painting
Storyboarding Digital Animation
Toon Boom Harmony Photoshop CS6
After Effects CS6 Premiere Pro
Microsoft Office DragonFrame
PROFESSIONAL 2014-2015 Leonid in Space Short Film, San Francisco, CA
EXPERIENCE Director, Producer, Animator, Background Painter
Designed, animated, and completed entire film.
• Winner—Best Student Animation (2D) October 2015
Digitalmation Awards
• Winner--Best Student Animation June 2015 Los Angeles
Independent Film Festival Awards
• Winner—Award of Merit Best Shorts Competition
• Winner--Award of Merit Accolade Global Film Competition
• Winner—2015 Directors award North Carolina Film Awards
• Official Selection—Gwinnett Center Int’l Film Festival
• Official Selection—Dog Film Festival
• Official Selection—Shortz! Film Festival
• Official Selection—InterShort Online Film Awards
• Official Selection----ITSA Shorts Film Festival
• Official Selection----Epic ACG Film Festival
• Official Selection----Anim!Arte Int’l Student Animation
Festival of Brazil
• Official Selection—The God Dog! International Film
Festival
2014-2015 San Francisco Foodie Cats Project, San Francisco, CA
Digital Animator--(Hamburger Cat)
2015 Mariposa Pictures, Los Angeles, CA
Cleanup animator, Painter, Toon Boom Harmony Generalist
2014 ToonBoom Harmony demonstration, Morganton, NC
Provided ToonBoom Harmony demonstration to high school art
students of R.L. Patton high school
EDUCATION 08/12 - 05/15 Academy of Art University, M.F.A. in 2D Animation,
2D MFA Animation student representative San Francisco, CA

2. 08/08 -05/12 Lenoir-Rhyne University, B.A. in Studio Art, Music
Graduated Magna Cum Laude Hickory, NC
AWARDS 2015 Call For Art! Juried Art Show, Hickory, NC
Honorable Mention
2014 SMART CAR for 30 days design contest, San Francisco, CA
Winner —won the opportunity to drive designed car for 30 days