Ashley Kliment-Baker

*Also credited as: Ashley Kliment

akliment77@yahoo.com
(916) 607•0330

Work Experience:

Color Styling, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, “Unannounced Project”                         July 2023 - December 2024
• Provided color styling for characters, props & FXs
• Created COMP files, palettes and callouts for special lighting
• Painted special close up moments

Color Styling Freelance, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, The Loud House Movie 2 November 2022
• Provided color styling and background paint on a feature film pipeline

Art Director, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, The Loud House                                    February 2019 - June 2022
• Shipped episodes on time and kept retakes within budget
• Oversaw episodes and designs from premise to lock
• Created pre vis, color scripts, concepts and design assets across the pipeline
• Provided episode breakdowns and coordinated design handouts

Background Designer, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, The Loud House                                    May 2016 - February 2019
         • Provided black and white background layouts based off of storyboards
• Painted backgrounds and title cards based on stylized reference & layouts

       Background Designer, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, Wallykazam!                                                   January - April 2016
         • Returned to help complete post-production and series finale assets and art direction
• Created paint overs to fix artistic retakes
• Attended meetings for calling retakes and color correction
• Covered art direction duties during art director’s paternity leave

       Background Designer, DreamWorks Animation Consumer Products, IKEA Project                       August - December 2015
         • Provided style guides and color styling for several animated shorts
         • Painted background plates and provided layout guides
• Painted and designed props built in both Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

       Background Painter (Freelance), Cartoon Network, Adventure Time (1 Episode)                                December 2015
         • Quickly painted background to help meet production deadlines

       Background Painter, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, Wallykazam! (26 Episodes)                            July 2014 - June 2015
         • Painted textures for 3D props and set elements
         • Provided color styling & concepts for props and sets
         • Painted cycloramas and background matte paintings

Education:

      San Jose State University                                                                                                                                           
         • Bachelors in Fine Art: Animation/Illustration