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Bachelor of Letters
The Bachelor of Letters was a post-graduate degree including a thesis, in which it was possible to concentrate on a single subject area. My area was Fine Arts and my thesis concerned folk tale themes and their appearance in contemporary children's television animation. It received first class honours.
University of Melbourne (1988)
Graduate Diploma in Applied Film and Television
The primary objective in this diploma was to make a short film. My film,
X times 2, was a music clip for the post punk band, Modern Jazz. It was
chosen as a 'short' for the Jim Jarmusch film Stranger than Paradise, for
its season at the Longford cinema. It was shown again last year, at the
2009 Melbourne Film Festival as part of the Punk Retrospective. The
Swinburne Film School is now part of the VCA.
Swinburne Film School, Swinburne Institute of Technology (1983)
Bachelor of Education
I majored initially in Music, and later in History and English Literature in
my under-graduate degree.
I am teacher trained for secondary school level.
Melbourne State College (1977)
July 1991 – present
N Squared Pty Ltd
Directors:
Noel Richards and Janice Filipuzzi.
N Squared is a company run by myself and my wife. When not
contracting to larger film companies, we create animations within our
own studio. My film-work credits can be found on IMDB.com (see link
below). Most of the animations created by N Squared are for TV
commercials. We were awarded a Melbourne Art Directors Club award
for Best Visual Effects in 1996, for a commercial for the Ford Taurus. I
am also involved with 'virtual' sculpture, with a piece included in the
Inside/Out exhibition at the Australian Centre for Craft and Design in
Sydney.
On the Inside/Out website go to 'Artist'/'Noel Richards'.The section
entitled '3D Printing process' shows the fabrication of my work.
April 2002 – February 2010
Complete Post, Melbourne
I was contracted via N Squared to build the Animation and Visual
Effects Department. It grew from two artists in 2002 and fluctuated
between four and seven artists, before it was dissolved in February 2010.
My tasks included, being a team leader on large scale effects projects,
mentoring and teaching junior animators, direction and design.
Head of Department, Animation and Visual Effects
July 2001 – April 2002
Photon VFX, Gold Coast, Queensland
Between the years 1999 and 2002, I was contracted at various times to
Photon VFX, which has its base on the Warner Bros Lot on the Gold
coast. I was employed for the above period as a digital effects supervisor
on the film, Visitors. I directed a team of animators and compositors, in
the creation of the digital effects for this film.
Digital Effects Supervisor
November 1996 – September 1997
Dfilm, Sydney
Dfilm was a subsidiary of the large Sydney Film Laboratory, Atlab. It
was set up to create the visual effects on Dark City and later, The
Matrix. I was one of the lead animators on the feature film Dark City. I
was responsible for the creation of a series of visual effects which
included both animation and compositing.
Lead 3d Computer animator.
November 1994 – April 1995
ARRI TV, Munich, Germany
I was invited to work with the fledgling Film and TV Services, within
the large German company, famous for the Arriflex camera. I worked on
the very first film of what is now a credit list of over two hundred.
Lead 3d Computer animator.
March 1992 – December 1992
RMIT University of Technology
I lectured part-time for a year at RMIT in the Advanced Diploma of
Multimedia course. The course has subsequently become a Degree course
and the current Head of Department is one of my ex-students.
Lecturer in animation (part-time)
October 1991 – March 1992
Visuals Spa, Milan, Italy
I took a sabbatical from animation to work in the (then!) new area of
digital printing and photography. Visuals had a Quantel Graphics
Paintbox. This was a dedicated hardware/software machine designed to
do what later became possible on Adobe Photoshop. I worked on several
visualisations including a promotional poster for the company.
Lead 3D designer
August 1986 – June 1991
The Video Paint Brush Company, Melbourne
VPB was a pioneer company in the field of Computer Imagery. I was
with them for six years during which time I worked on some ground-
breaking television commercials. The Smarties Pack O'Fun TVC of
1988 was the first in Australia to be an entirely computer-generated
character animation. Similarly the Aero TVC of 1990 was one of the very
early computer simulations (liquid chocolate). I was the Senior animator
on both of these TVCs.
During this period (in my spare time!) I also wrote, directed and
animated a short animation entitled One Complete Revolution. It was
shown at the 1990 Melbourne Film Festival, and later purchased by SBS
for the Eat Carpet series.
3d Computer Animator and later Senior animator
November 1985 – July 1986
Computer Pictures, Melbourne
Computer Pictures was one of only two CGI companies in Melbourne at
the time. Our main work was the creation of logo animations.
3d Computer animator
March 1984 – November 1984
Dennis Tupicoff Animation, Melbourne
After leaving Swinburne Film School, I worked with Dennis before the
advent of computer animation.
Animator's assistant, rostrum camera operator
April 1980 – September 1982
Department of Exhibitions, National Gallery of Victoria
My first job in the arts, my boss being the inspirational Graeme Sturgeon,
author of Australian Sculpture Now. As part of a team of four, I helped
set up and design more than thirty temporary exhibitions.
Technical Assistant
One Complete Revolution (1989)
Director/animator.
X times 2 (1983)
Director/animator
Australia (2008) (uncredited)
December Boys (2007)
Boytown (2006)
Irresistible (2006)
Visitors (2003)
Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2003) (uncredited)
Ned Kelly (2003)
Subterano (2003) (uncredited)
Inspector Gadget 2 (2003) (uncredited)
The Diamond of Jeru (2001)
Scooby Doo (2002) (uncredited)
Cubby House (2001) (uncredited)
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1999) (uncredited)
Chameleon II and III (1998) (uncredited)
Dark City (1998)
Schlafes Bruder (1995) (uncredited)
Visual effects and animation, Television: 1984, Dennis Tupicoff Animation (Melbourne)Rostrum camera operation and Ink-and-Paint.
1985 – 1991, The Video Paint Brush Company (Melbourne)Computer animation for both motion graphics and TVCs for the following companies: 1991 – 2000, N Squared (Melbourne), and freelance for Guava (Adelaide), Double G (Perth), Unreal Pictures (Melbourne), Boing Productions (Melbourne), ARRI (Munich)Computer animation for both motion graphics and TVCs for the following companies: 2001 – 2010, Freelance for Complete Post (Melbourne), Emerald City Design (Sydney), GMD (Sydney), Ambience (Sydney), Photon, (Sydney), Zephyr, (Melbourne), MRPP, (Melbourne)Computer animation for both motion graphics and TVCs for the following companies: 2010 – present, N Squared (Melbourne)Computer animation for both motion graphics and TVCs for the following companies:Buchanan Group (Brand Power)

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