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| Michael Brunsfeld |
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420 Nova Albion Way
San Rafael, Ca 94903
Brunsfeldo@comcast.net
(415) 472-7573
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Yes, I TRY
to stay objective ! |
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| 1986-Present |
Freelance Designer, Illustrator and Art Director
Recently completed concept designs for Spielberg's War of the Worlds, worked on a number of commercials, created game screens for a Harry Potter game for Electronic Arts, did photo retouching for an Adobe product ad, exhibit design for a Google convention, and have designed and Illustrated more than 4 dozen book covers for the Uncle John's series of Humor/Reference books. (Bathroom Reader's Press, APG Publishing, Workman Publishing, and Running Press.)
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| 1996-2004 |
Industrial Light + Magic
Visual Effects Art Director, Concept Artist, Designer
Directed a Discovery Channel spot that took him to Australia, and art directed more commercials than he can remember. Conceptual design on a dozen feature films, designed architectural spaces and droids for Star Wars Episode 2, Martians and flying ships, watches, posters, a multitude of T-shirts, unfolding semi-trucks, a Vanity Fair cover, futuristic Academy Awards, dangerous metallic mountain lions . . . talking fish . . . and flying squirrels.
Feature Films__ Concept Designer/ Art Director
Peter Pan, Terminator 3, Minority Report, Gangs of New York, Star Wars: Episode 2, Mummy Returns, the Mummy, Mission to Mars and Rocky & Bullwinkle.
Commercials__Art Director and Design
Disney, Coke, Pontiac, Chevy, Energizer, Fox Sports Net, Discovery Channel, Honeycomb Cereal, Alka Seltzer, Glad, Progressive Insurance, Virgin Atlantic, British Petroleum,
Lost World Trailer, Pearl Harbor Poster, Vanity Fair Cover Image, National Geographic Promo Image . . .
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| 1982-1996 |
Colossal Pictures
Commercial Director, Animation Director, Art Director and Designer
Film animation company in San Francisco directed and designed animated TV commercials and interactive screens in every shape and description for Chevy, Apple, Microsoft, Perrier, Coke, Lowenbrau, TV Guide, Nickelodeon, Disney and MTV, and was rewarded Emmy and a Clio for the mantlepiece. (Near-miss claim-to-fame was designing the California Raisins.) Designed type for a number of feature film title sequences, including "Brenda Starr," "Peggy Sue Got Married" & "Jack."
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| 1979-1982 |
Ritter-Waxberg Animation Designer, Animator
Motion graphics, animated logo titles, special effects camerawork, and "streaky, strobey, slit-scan photography." |
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| Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois, Bachelors in Art |
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Analog Pencil & Paper, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator.
Initially studied with the masters: Mad Magazine & Monster Bubble Gum Cards |
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Reference are available on request. |
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