Jim Elston
Freelance illustrator/Concept Artist
Summary
Full time freelance illustrator based in Nashville TN. Formerly a Disney animation and DreamWorks tv artist.
Skills
Software proficiency
Productions
- TV ProductionThe Wingfeather Saga (2 seasons)
- Year2024
- Roletexture painter, prop designer, background painter
- CompanyShining Isle Productions, LLC
- TV ProductionSuperbook
- Year2015
- RoleFreelance Prop Designer
- CompanyChristian Broadcasting Network
- TV ProductionVeggieTales in the House
- Year2014
- RoleStoryboard Revisionist
- CompanyBig Idea Entertainment/Dreamworks TV
- MovieLilo and Stitch
- Year2001
- RoleClean up artist/Inbetweener
- CompanyWalt Disney Feature Animation
- MovieThe Emperor's New Groove
- Year2000
- RoleClean up artist/Inbetweener
- CompanyWalt Disney Feature Animation
- MovieTarzan
- Year1999
- RoleClean up artist/Inbetweener
- CompanyWalt Disney Feature Animation
- MovieMulan
- Year1998
- RoleClean up artist/Breakdown
- CompanyWalt Disney Feature Animation
- MovieHunchback of Notre Dame
- Year1996
- RoleClean up artist/Inbetweener
- CompanyWalt Disney Feature Animation
Experience
- Background Painter, Texture Painter, Prop designer at Shining Isle, LLCFranklin, TN, USFebruary 2021 - January 2024
The Wingfeather Saga is a series of four children's fantasy novels written by singer-songwriter Andrew Peterson. It is being adapted into a free-to-watch, seven-season animated television series by Angel Studios, with Peterson as an executive producer along with J. Chris Wall. (wikipedia)
- Storyboard Revisionist at Big Idea/Dreamworks TVFranklin, TN, United States of AmericaFebruary 2014 - April 2017
- Clean Up Artist/Inbetweener at Walt Disney Feature AnimationOrlando, FL, United States of AmericaJanuary 1995 - September 2001