e-mail:   ams@allenmstovall.com phone:   818-582-5259

Allen Matthew Stovall

Skills & Experience:

• current: 4+ years website design, creation, and maintenance

• ongoing: 30+ years freelance graphic design and illustration: logos, graphics, posters, educational and promotional material

• 1985 - 2003: approx. 17 years special effects animation and assistant animation (see demo reel & filmography below)

• 2000 - 2004: 4 years video production and editing: events, weddings, and biographical videos, as well as professional demo reel editing for animation artists

• 1976 - 1978: 2 years in-store artist: window display design, painting, and building, including life-sized figures, for a large music store (Peaches Records)

• 1971 - 1973: 3 years vignette cartoonist for a specialty print shop (booster ribbons for high school football fundraising)

• occasional: sign painting and design
 
Volunteer Work:

• 1987 - 1988: 15 months volunteer worker for the Ministry of Housing in Nicaragua, Central America, creating a fully-illustrated basic construction manual
(click here for more information and to view the book)

Education
[1981-1984] School of Film & Video, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
     Certificate of Fine Arts in Film Graphics / Animation

Website creation is my mainstay, as well as illustration & graphic design, and an occasional video editing project. I live in Los Angeles with my wife Jennifer; we enjoy exploring the rich variety of natural beauty throughout Southern California.