Terence Taylor is a native New Yorker who's worked extensively as a graphic artist/designer and digital animator in both New York and Los Angeles. He currently works regularly writing and producing on-air fundraising breaks for WNET/Thirteen, as well as other freelance production work.

In his spare time he writes novels.

Contact:
ttaylor2@nyc.rr.com
917-817-2687

Experience:

Eva Zelig:

"An Unknown Country" - 2011
Editor, Graphic Designer/Animator
Edited a seven-minute trailer for a documentary in production by Emmy Award winning producer Eva Zelig, to raise completion funds on Kickstarter and elsewhere.
- Final Cut, After Effects, Photoshop

Thirteen/WNET:

On-Air Fundraising/Broadcast Department
Writer/Producer - 2007-Present
Freelance - Responsible for writing, planning and coordinating on-air graphics, shooting, editing and final packaging of live and pre-taped fundraising breaks. For the last three years have shot tape segments and interviews in the studio and field which I offline in Final Cut.
- Final Cut, After Effects, Photoshop

Jonathan Pond:

"The New Affluence" - 2010
Graphic Designer/Animator
Design and animation of financial information segments for the PBS special.
- Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects

The Skillman Foundation:

April 2002 – September 2009
Print/Graphic Designer
Designed annual reports, display graphics, a bi-monthly newsletter and weekly full-page children's ads for the Detroit News and Free Press.
- Photoshop, Quark, Illustrator

Warner Brothers Television:

"The Big Bang Theory" - 2007
Graphic Designer
Main title logo design for the popular and award-winning CBS situation comedy.
- Photoshop, Illustrator

Orchard Films:

"Indie Sex" - 2007
Graphic Designer/Animator
Designed and animated timelines, headline treatments and still treatments on three hour long episodes, "Teens", "Censored" and "Extreme", for a documentary series on sex in the cinema, produced for the Independent Film Channel.
- Photoshop, After Effects

"Fabulous!" - 2006
Graphic Designer/Animator
Animated stills, movie posters and headlines for a documentary on the history of gay cinema for the Independent Film Channel, which premiered at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival.
- Photoshop, After Effects

Chimpanzee Productions:

"Marriage Equality" - 2011
Graphic Designer/Animator
Title design
- Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator

"Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela" - 2004-2005
Graphic Designer/Animator
Designed and animated still animation, lower thirds, period maps, archival photographs and credit sequences. It premiered at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival, won best documentary at the 2005 Pan-African Film Festival in Los Angeles, TV debut in 2006 on P.O.V., the award-winning PBS documentary series.
- Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator

Corner Store Entertainment:

"Squeezing More Fun Into Learning" - 2001
Graphic Designer/Animator
Designed, animated transitions, background and content for twenty-minute Jordan/Parkay classroom video.
- Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator

"Can Do Kids" - 2000
Graphic Designer/Animator
Designed, animated transitions, background and content for twenty-minute Jordan/Ballpark Franks classroom video.
- Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator

Atomic Age Inc.:

"Applications 2000" - 2000
Graphic Designer
CD training disk design for Xerox.
- Photoshop, Illustrator

"DigiPath" - 2000
Graphic Designer
CD training disk design for Xerox.
- Photoshop, Director, Illustrator

"BillXchange" - 2000
Graphic Designer
CD training disk design for Xerox.
- Illustrator, Flash, Illustrator

"Mercer Mayer's Little Monster in The Mummy Mystery" - 1999-2000
Digital Art Supervisor/Compositor
- AXA, Director, Photoshop, Illustrator

"Mercer Mayer's McGraw-Hill Reading Workbooks" - 1999-2000
Digital colorist
- Photoshop

The Krislin Company:

Creative Director - 1997-1998
Creative director, graphic artist and Compositor
CD-ROM adaptations of four Mercer Mayer children's books. Supervised studio's creative output, including client pitch books ("Coccitoons", "Swamp City", "MoonBabies"), advertising and development.

"Mercer Mayer's Me and my Grandpa" - 1998
Digital Art Supervisor/Compositor
- AXA, Director, Photoshop, Soundedit 16

"Mercer Mayer's Little Monster in The Smelly Mystery" - 1997
Digital Art Supervisor/Compositor
- Director, Photoshop, Soundedit 16

"Mercer Mayer's Me and my Mom" - 1996
Computer Animator/Compositor
- Director, Photoshop, Soundedit 16

"Mercer Mayer's My and my Dad" - 1996
Computer Artist/Compositor
- Director, Photoshop, Soundedit 16