I began my journey years ago with a desire to create animations and filmmaking, but the stars didn’t have it in the plan for me, until one day I lost my job in IT. I decided to go back to school for filmmaking at UTA and made the deans list. I landed an internship at Walking Tall Productions starring Kevin Sorbo as an office P.A. I reversed engineered the call sheets while I had some down time, and found myself being the 2nd AD for the second film. I became the Assistant Director for “Bollywood Nights”, an award winning independent film about a young Indian man coming of age in America.
Since then, I created several award winning documentaries for Sedgwick County Zoo, the narrative episodic show “SMASH IT” for Texas Instruments and edited various shows for AMP. I landed a producer staff job at Texas Instruments for 13 years, I’ve created over 300 live action, short, animations and social videos. I also specialize in motion tracking and compositing and visual effects. During my time at TI, I completed 10 classes with School of Motion to include title design, coding, hand illustration, 2D in After Effects, 3D in Cinema 4D, Redshift and Octane, winning student spotlight twice for my work in character animation and expressions coding. I am very experienced in taking a project from inception, breakdown, scheduling, storyboarding, previs, asset creation and final production.
I’m a HUGE fan of all things aerospace, NASA, science fiction and I love animation. A leader once asked me while working at Texas Instruments, what would i be doing if I had all the money in the world, and I replied “This! I LOVE creating animations, especially about space and technology!!”. I meant it. I also like riding bicycles.
If you have a dream or a vision, then let me help you make it a reality.
Resume and references available upon request.
spalkowetz [@] gmail.com
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Texas Instruments, Inc. , Facebook, Abernathy Media Professionals, Veria, Sedgwick County Zoo, Stone Core Films, CMT Tellivsion, Chip Richie, Beautiful Confusion, Walk the Walk, Richards.