Jose Miguel Benga

Venezuela

josem.benga@gmail.com

linkedin.com/in/josebenga

Summary
I am an experienced artist in the animation industry with a strong background in design and background art.

Over the course of my career, I have honed my skills in utilizing shape, light and color as essential tools for
storytelling. My dedication lies in creating immersive and believable worlds that effectively convey mood and
engage audiences. I am passionate about crafting compelling narratives and consistently strive to tell great stories
through my art.

Experience
Designer
WildBrain
Dec 2021 - Aug 2023 (1 year 9 months)
Freelance

Backround Painter
Titmouse
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022 (2 months)
Freelance

Background Artist
WildBrain
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 2 months)
BG Lead on Polly Pocket ( November-January) The Proud Family ( Jan-Decemer)

Lead Background Designer

SILVERWOLF Studios | Audio Postproduction
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020 (3 months)
As a lead designer, I had the chance to help the director stablish the style and mood for all location
design, as well as guiding other designers in the process of creating background layouts on an
International Emmy nominee Colombian production. https://josebenga.artstation.com/projects/
nEmEGo?album_id=7560884

Background Layout & Color Artist

WildBrain
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020 (8 months)
Created background layouts and painting for Netlix's Carmen Sandiego, by either following key designs
and/or creating board pull designs

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 BG Layout/Color Artist
DHX Media
May 2018 - Jul 2018 (3 months)
Carmen Sandiego

Design Generalist
DHX Media
Oct 2017 - May 2018 (8 months)
Working mostly on characters and props. From designing,to creating turnarounds, board pull designs
and mouth charts on first two seasons of Neflix's Carmen Sandiego

Designer
Bardel Entertainment
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017 (4 months)
Worked mostly on prop designs for 3D youtube show Monsters High

Illustrator
Dec 2014 - Mar 2015 (4 months)
As an Illustrator, I was given the task to design and paint assets related to the creation of different
thematic events around the world.

Education
Vancouver Film School
Diploma, Animation Concept Art
2015 - 2016
Reinforced artistic core fundamentals and gained industry, production pipeline expertise for the creation
of visual concepts.

Tiffanie Mang's mentorship

Advanced Digital Painting mentorship
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022

Instituto de Diseño de Caracas

Illustration
2011 - 2014
Ganined core artistic fundamental skills through an intensive BFA equivalent program where both
traditional and digital training where adressed.

Skills
Ilustración digital • Ilustración • Photoshop • Animación • Photography • Fotografía • Graphic
Design • Illustration • 3D Studio Max • After Effects

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