WAKANA IRIE
Storyboard Artist, Illustrator
Established Storyboard Artist with 11 years of experience in the field of entertainment such as film, animation, commercial and music video. Committed team player dedicating skills to translate director's and team's vision and produce high quality work, detail oriented, understanding various approaches for storyboard used at pitching, shooting, and/or marketing. Strong understanding and drawing skills for storytelling creating dramatic composition, camera movement, expressive characters or mood of the scenes and make contributions to the creative process through own ideas and inspiration for action scenes in various projects.
STORYBOARD EXPERIENCE
June 2012 – Current Fuse Interactive | Laguna Beach, CA
Kawasaki promotional videos and brochures
March 2019 Inversion | Los Angeles, CA
Spot pitch for a local distillery.
January 2019 The Pool Productions Inc. | Los Angeles, CA
Coleman promotional video.
December 2016 -
July 2017
Spinfast | Los Angeles, CA
"Michael Jackson's Halloween" on CBS.
October 2016 - January 2017
Idean | Los Angeles, CA
ERICSSON VR Glasses promotional videos and other product promotional videos.
February – March
2015
5 Mutts, Inc. | Santa Monica, CA
“The Adventures of Hooligan Squad in World War III”, director Aaron McGruder.
December 2015 The Men Productions | Sherman Oaks CA
"Alien Code", director Michael G. Cooney.
October 2015 Hplusf | Culver City, CA
New Seoul mall architect design project.
July - August 2014
Life Time Television | Los Angeles, CA "Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever", director Tim Hill.
May - June 2014
Threshold Animation Studios | Santa Monica, CA
"Ocean Quest: The Immersive Adventure", China's first 360-degree entertainment.
June 2013 - April 2014
Very Special Production | Sherman Oaks, CA
"Bremen Town Musicians", director Lawrence Guterman.
May - June 2013
Rocking Frog Production | Sherman Oaks, CA
"Gutsy Frog" pilot, director Mark Dippe.
August 2012-
August 2013
Allucinari | Los Angeles, CA
Contract storyboard artist for project bases.
March 2013 United Front Design, LLC | Los Angeles, CA
Various marketing spot for Apps.
August -
September 2011
Flows | Los Angeles, CA
DODA's music video "XXX", director Takumi Koyama.
May 2010 -
December 2011
Frameworks Artists Inc. | Los Angeles, CA
Non-exclusive storyboard artist at a Storyboard Agency.
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Jay Silverman Productions (commercials)
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Pure Films (commercials)
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Liverpool Inc. ("The Congress", a feature film, director Ari Folman.)
November 2009
- April 2011
NOSCO USA Inc. | Los Angeles, CA
Commercial spots.
August 2010 All In One Productions | Monterey Park, CA
WELLS FARGO commercial spots.
May – July 2010
Flying Lessons | Los Angeles, CA
"Flying Lessons", a feature film, director Derek Magyar.
ILLUSTRATION & GRAPHIC DESIGN EXPERIENCE
Dec 2011-
May 2018
May - August 2010
Singin Whale Studios |San Francisco, CA
Assistant graphic designer for Belly Up monthly flyer.
Just Cause Productions | Marina Del Rey, CA
Background illustrator for JUST DANCE KIDS, a Wii Game soft produced by Ubisoft.
...and others.
SKILLS
Digital drawing with Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint, Procreate, Illustrator on Ipad, Cintiq.
2D illustration, design.
Dec 2015-
Present
Singin Whale Studios |San Francisco, CA
Graphic novel ""