Francis Abraham Tan

       Born in the Philippines, 1973. His parents were both with Filipino Chinese descents and were very enthusiastic in arts.

      Not persuing his 2nd yr. B.S.MED.Tech course in FEU 1990- 1991 due to financial instability ended up with his first choice in arts, a formal schooling in Arellano Evening Vocational  School in Commercial  Arts painting , Sta Cruz Manila Philippines.

He started an animation career in A Korean Company for 9 months as an inbetweener promoted to assistant animator and later to animator. With a  multi platform studio experience. He had been passionately contributing  in animation production  for more than 23 years now as a character animator. He later was hired as an inbetweener in A Disney outsource company Toon City from 1994 and was promoted from Journeyman in 1995 to masterclass animator in 1996. 

 

From that time for several years he was trained in Animation Lectures (feature film)by Andreas Wesselthernhorn, Dave Block, Andrea Deja, Scott Petersen & Pieter Lommerse for Major Disney Film Animation Productions. "Tarzan2, Kronk's New Groove, Fox and The Hound 2, etc.in Toon City Animation......In 2005 Took up a crash course in Maya 3d Animation Module in Asia Digita Training Center Makati City.
 

        Aside from he's key contributions in creating 2d traditional pencil sketch animation as a masterclass animator in popular animated films & dtv's such as  Tarzan2, Kronk's New Groove, Fox and The Hound 2, Teachers Pet The Movie, Elcid, Hercules dtv, Lilo & Stitch dtv, Atlantis Milo's Return, Kim Possible, Winnie The Pooh Springtime with Rooh, House Of Mouse, Warner Bro's Tom And Jerry and 100 other dtv and tv series animations..As the digital age trends, he's enthusiasm has been brought into the latest popular 3d animation software Autodesk Maya as his major tool. Working for 6 and a half years in 3d , he had been knowledgeable in the pipelines used from 2d digital Toonboom Animate & Harmony and 3d Maya for Windows OS. He's minor works includes freelance jobs in character designs, graphic arts & video editing ,3d modelling, texturing & 3d face rigging in Mudbox,zbrush & Maya.

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He had contributed 3d animation  scene sequences  in a  Mexican Film "El Americano The Movie"as a senior 3d Animator in 2013 & Voltron Force 3d tv series & paddle pop 3d tv series, Lebrons 3d webisodes .

 

    In 2014 he continue as a fulltime remote lead animator using Toonboom Animate pro 2. After a year , in 2015 he had another remote work as a 3d Animator/3d Generalist in 3d Educational animation for Kids with Disney Characters of Frozen from a client in India. Aside from production, he continuiosly honed he's skills in pre & post production departments.He also had paintings & graphic arts freelance works continiuosly honing his skills also in freehand designs. In 2015 he had been part in Toonboom Digital animations Desert Mirage Live with 2d Animation indie film, 3d animations of Penn Zero TV Series & in 2017 in 3d animation DTV Martha And in 2018 3d animations in Bagani (of 3d Dragon & 3d Eagle Minokawa ) and 3d animated Wolves and wolve's pack in LaLuna Sanggre.

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