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© Eliza Frye 2005
Resumé


Eliza Jean Frye
California, USA
mail@elizafrye.com
www.elizafrye.com


Professional Experience:
2005 Contributing Writer . ToyFare
Provide news items, sidebars and features for major monthly toy magazine on a freelance basis.
2000-2005 Art Director . VeniceCottage.com
Responsible for legal and financial aspects, visual identity, web development, and marketing strategy for online bedding designer.
2002-2003 Electronic Media Staff . Daily Bruin
Art and web development staff for UCLA's daily newspaper, claiming the third largest circulation of any newspaper in Los Angeles. Worked with a small team to maintain the Daily Bruin website and design exclusive online content.
Summer 2002 Intern . TOKYOPOP
Responsible for brand management, print ad conception, press kit creation, trade show coordination, and developmental research.
2001 Web Designer . Center for Manual Medicine
Created business website including graphic design and hand-written HTML coding.
1999 Writer and Layout Artist . AnimeFringe.com
Provided freelance monthly articles and graphic design consultation for online webzine. Worked creatively on a six person team with strict deadlines.


Filmography:
Sunday Is Best Stop motion animated short film currently in production.
On-Off 1 min, 27 sec. Calarts student film- View here. (19.5MB MOV)
Screenings: Comic-Con Intl. Independent Film Festival (July 2005) and Toronto Film Festival (September 2005)


Computer Skills:
Applications Microsoft Windows (all versions), Mac/OSX, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, After Effects; Final Cut Pro, Quark Xpress, Procreate Painter; Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks.
Programming HTML (including Cascading Style Sheets), Javascript, and limited Perl/CGI.


Education:
California Institute of the Arts . School of Film/Video
Valencia, California USA
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Character Animation
(Current BFA transfer student)

Overseas Education 2003-2004 . New Zealand
Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch
Independent language and cultural study abroad

University of California Los Angeles . School of Arts and Architecture
Los Angeles, California USA
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Art
Cumulative GPA: 3.5

Language Proficiency . English (mother), Japanese (spoken/written- 500 kanji), Maori (some spoken/understood)


References available upon request.