Olaide Omidiora

I'm a recent graduate with a huge passion for animation, character design, and illustrative art.

I have a strong foundation in storytelling, character design, and technical animation skills. I completed a variety of electives, including 3D modelling and animation, illustration and 2D animation. I’m a dedicated, eager, and flexible employee, I work very well in a team, and am always ready and willing to learn.

Capstone Project, HAUSEN (2023)

My major film, produced in the final year of Bachelor of Design (Animation and Interactive Media) at RMIT University. The short is around 2 minutes long, and focuses on atmospheric storytelling.

• Managed all stages of direction, including animation, background, compositing, and sound.
• Worked efficiently with a shot list and self imposed timeline.
• Worked extensively with TvPaint, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, Adobe After Effects and Clip Studio Paint.

Capstone Project: Table Talk, dir. Em King (2023) - Rough animation assistance

Volunteered on ‘Table Talk’, assisted with rough animation. I helped to complete some difficult animation shots.

• Worked with the director to ensure an adequate turnaround time.
• Worked closely with approved character designs, ensuring that my key poses were accurate to the chosen style of the short.
• Utilised Toon Boom Harmony.

Capstone Project: Cosmos, dir. Chase Wallis (2023) - Clean-up Artist

Volunteered on ‘Cosmos’, assisted with clean-up and in-betweening on several complex shots.

• Worked according to the program specifications of the director.
• Cleaned up and inbetweened rough animation.
• Ensured that my work was delivered in a timely manner, and that my drawings were accurate to character turnarounds.

RMIT: Crash Planet (2022) - Creator, Character design lead, rough animation and clean-up

Created a pitch for an animated TV show, then worked with a large team of students in order to create an animated pilot based on my pitch.

• Presented my pitch to industry professionals, gained experience in receiving and implementing feedback.
• Was lead of character design for the project, managed other people in my team and delegated tasks.
• Designed the majority of the characters and the visual style of the show.
• Created a style guide that was used to solidify the design of the main characters, ensure the accuracy of character designs during clean-up, and resolve any design issues that may have occurred during animation.
• Worked in rough animation, clean up, inbetweening, and lip-synch.

Living Positive: Undetectable = Untransmissible (2022) - Rough Animation and Clean-up Artist

A project completed for Living Positive Victoria. Our client was a charity dedicated to educating and supporting people living with HIV in Victoria.

• Worked in a small, 4 person team in order to complete this project.
• Regularly updated our clients in the form of pitches, accepted feedback and changed our project to meet expectations.
• Ensured that our project was delivered on time and according to our client specifications.

RMIT University, Bachelor of Design (Animation and Interactive Media) (2020 — 2023)

Monash University, Bachelor of Fine Arts — BFA (2017 — 2019)

• Excellent teamwork and communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Organised, punctual, efficient, adaptable, and proficient at problem solving.

• Proficient in TVPaint, Toon Boom Harmony, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, Clip Studio Paint, Maya and Blender.

• Highly confident with the Adobe Suite.