curtis sponsler • résumé 2025
SUMMARY
• Expert designer and storyteller in 2D motion graphics, 3D animation. Low maintenance self-starter who solves client’s problems by creating visual results that exceed expectations. Provides peace-of-mind to clients on tight deadlines. Embraces diverse media technologies and methods: from live action shoots, to the final audio mix. Inventive and innovative, looks forward to new production challenges. Quickly Assembles visual stories: from the quirky and whimsical, to serious and critical messages. The set-and-forget VFX generalist who brings clients’ stories to life.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Alienhead Entertainment | CTO & Creative Director | Nov 2019 - Present
• 3D animator, modeler, and motion graphics designer for commercial, corporate, and silicon valley clients. Served as design contractor for several national design, marketing, and production facilities. Creative Director, Motion Graphics Designer, and 3D Animator with over 30 years experience in broadcast, corporate, theme park, feature, and commercial production. Worked beside marketing and ad agencies in corporate and simulation industries, and at production/post-production facilities all my career. Have extensive multimedia and computer technology knowledge in design, installation, and operations.
Red Rocket Studios | Animation Director | Jun 2013 - Nov 2019
• Wrote scripts, designed, and created 3D animation & motion graphics. Installed audio-visual presentation systems using multi-screen, projection, and surround-sound technologies, running advanced computer interfaces. Created 3D product visualizations for marketing and commercials
AniMill | President & Creative Director | Jan 1995 - Mar 2012
• Project Manager of employee and contract workers. Supervised all productions and provided final touches at delivery. Served clients of commercial, corporate, broadcast, theme park, and simulation industries. Embraced innovative media technologies and new production challenges. Visualized products and concepts as photo-real 3D renderings. Created wide-range visual stories: from quirky and whimsical, to technical and corporate.
CLIENTS
Disney, Universal, Lockheed Martin, Siemens, Deloitte, Adams Golf, SeaWorld, Anheuser-Busch, NBC, ABC, Legoland, SMC, The Golf Channel, and multiple network TV station affiliates
AWARDS
Regional Emmy & nominations, multiple Telly, Addy for commercial animation, Cleo for animation design
SOFTWARE
Cinema 4D w/ Redshift, After Effects, Unreal Engine, DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, entire Adobe Suite proficient
EQUIPMENT
BlackMagic 6K cinema, 6 low-T primes, zoom lenses, and 4x5.65” filters
Lighting packages: area lights, spots, and compact fills
Camera Rigs: tripod, shoulder mount, CRANE-3S gimbal and vest, 48" slider
MacBook Pro 14" w/ M1 MAX, Windows w/ AMD 7850X and 5070Ti, 5Kx2K and 32” production monitors
Portable AC/DC generator 6KW
AUTHOR
The Focal Easy Guide to After Effects, a how-to book for beginner-to-advance artists, editors, and motion graphics designers.
UNRAVELED, young adult fiction; a warped reboot of the beloved children’s book, Charlotte’s Web. UNRAVELED is about the gifted 16-year old Kayla, a spider enthusiast, who, along with her lab partner Henri, get tangled within web of mysteries at the dilapidated Vigrid Farm, where a series of strange animal killings could threaten their whole village.
The Force was with Us, middle grade fiction; a coming-of-space-age story of a 13yo Trekkie bullied by classmates and his dad finds strength when his world becomes obsessed with everything STAR WARS.
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