Ken Turner Portfolio 2009

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Biography

Ken Turner graduated from the BAA Animation program in '07 at the Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. In the summer of 2005, he, along with nine other fellow students, made a co-op film named "Umbrella Boy". Directed by Andrew Ross and mentored by Ricardo Curtis of House of Cool, it was later screened at the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2006 and won 2nd place. His illustrative work has been featured on the front pages of Cartoon Brew and StrutYourReel. During the summer of 2006, he worked at C.O.R.E. Toons during the production of "Iggy Arbuckle" where he was apart of the design department.

In 2006 he directed his first 2D animated group short film, "Attack of the Giant Vegetable Monsters", and in 2007 he directed his final film thesis and his first stop motion animated short film, "TiM", which was a homage to his favorite film director Tim Burton. Both "Tim" and "AOTGVM" were Aniboom Awards 2007 entries. He did freelance illustrations for a children's book based on the fairy tale of "Little Red Riding Hood" for Rubicon Publishing in October 2007.

In February and March 2008, he did freelance character designs for Cookie Jar Entertainment. In June 2008, "Attack of the Giant Vegetable Monsters" won Best Online Short – in the Animation category award for the MovieHatch - Jackson Hole Film Festival Online Short Film Competition. It was an official selection of the 2008 JHFF festival and awarded the coveted Cowboy Award in Jackson, Wyoming. From November 2008 to March 2009, he was an animator and a character design/visual development artist at 9 Story Entertainment. In August of 2009 he self published an illustration humor book called "A Night at the Movies".

Presently he is a freelance illustrator doing children's books.

He specializes in visual development/character design and is available for freelance or commissioned work.

This is an online portfolio with the intent in gaining a visual development, illustration and design position within the animation and film industry.

I can be reached via my email addresses for any inquiries.

kenny_23mj@hotmail.com

kenturboturner@yahoo.ca

Thanks for viewing and hope to hear from you soon.

-Edweird Gray

All work copyright 2009 Ken Turner unless otherwise noted.