I’m always looking for work as character designer and visual developer in pre-production.

Experience

Freelance Visual Development/Illustrator at Pernille Oerum ApS

July 2014 - Present
Costomers include: Disney, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, Mattel, Nickelodeon Jr. and Image Comics. 

Lead Character Creator at Kickstart Entertainment

December 2021 - March 2023 (1 year 4 months)
Lead Character Designer for 'Barbie, the Great Horse Chase' on Netflix, responsible for Barbie's designs and character styles.

Head Character Designer at Warner Bros. Animation

April 2015 - December 2016
Character Designer on Warner Brothers show DC Superhero Girls

Lead 2D Artist (branding division) at Sybo Games

February 2013 - July 2015

Responsible for creating and maintaining the clothing/merchandise Style Guide and designing assets/full prints.
Making sure that the visual representation of Sybo Games is cohesive with the style and expression of the game.

2D artist helping with the overall visual development.

Background Painter at Copenhagen Bombay Productions

June 2012 - December 2012
Project: ANGRY BIRDS TOONS, animated series by Rovio Entertainment.

Backgrounds in Photoshop.

Layout/background artist and designer at Den Danske Filmskole

December 2011 - June 2012
Layout/background artist and designer on a graduating film.

Animation Hub

November 2011 - June 2012

Working on AnimatedNews.
This is a project for the Danish newspaper Politikken, informing people about an event that will be covered soon.
Done as an animated comic.

Concept artist and Storyboarder at Dollerup Hills

October 2011 - November 2011
Concept artist and storyboarder on a treatment for a feature film in development....

Animator at Mark Film

September 2011 - October 2011

Animating an informercial for CSS in 3D.

Animator at Double Negative

April 2011 - August 2011

Background animator on Disney's John Carter

Intern at The Cartoon Saloon

September 2010 - December 2010

Animation and Character Design

Animation teacher at Billedeskolen

September 2009 - June 2010
Teaching children (age: 9 - 13) how to work with animation.

Lead Animator at Den Danske Filmskole

November 2009 - February 2010

On 'Julegrisen'

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Honors and Awards

For "The Saga of Biôrn" 

EKKo awards, Copenhagen, Denmark Dec 2014

"best animated short"

For "The Saga of Biôrn"

Anima Mundi, Rio De Janeiro og São Paolo, Brazil July 2011

Melhor Roteiro, "best script"

For "The Saga of Biôrn"

Roma Creative Contest. September 2012

Premio Miglior Idea, "best idea"

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Languages

Danish English

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Skills & Expertise

Maya
Storyboarding Concept Design Illustration
Drawing
Traditional Animation Computer Animation Visual Effects Graphics
Compositing
Painting
Photoshop
Video Games

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Education

The Animation Workshop

Bachelor, Character Animation, 2007 - 2011

The Drawing Academy

2006 - 2006

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Honors and Awards

2011: Award for contribution to the social environment.

2005: Scholastic Award in Fine Arts (Silver Key)

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Recommendations:

"She was very easy and pleasent to work with. Great colleage! Works well independently but also follows

directions well when given. Nice strong graphic style!"

— Rebecca Bang Sorensen, Production Designer, The national Danish filmschool, managed Pernille at Den Danske Filmskole

"Pernille is a very talented and motivated animation professional with strong skills in animation, design and backgrounds. She is also very personable and creates a good team spirit in the studio. I would highly recommend her for any position she may be considered for and would be delighted to work with her again."

— Tomm Moore, was Pernille's client

"Pernille and I worked together at my Graduation film "Christmas Piggy". She was the lead animator for a team of up to 9 animators. Pernille is a very, very talented animator that can turn gold out of lead - in other words she can do magic - on time. Pernille is also a very happy out going person that is happy about being a part of a team and helping and listing to her collages. I will recommend Pernille to anyone that wants a world class character animator. She contributed making my film great! - R.S. Söderström"

— Rickard S. Söderström, was Pernille's client

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