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Bill Presing
Bill Presing
Story/Pin-up/Comic artist
East Bay, CA, United States

Summary

Story Artist at Pixar Animation studios with 29 years experience in the animation industry. Independent Comic Book Illustrator/Author, published in three countries by Marvel, Dark Horse, Chronicle Books, Disney Press, IDW, Heavy Metal, Digital Webbing, Ankama Editions, Akileos, Fluide Glacial, Comix Buro and Aleta Ediciones.

Skills

StoryboardingComic book illustrationCharacter Design2D character layout/key animationArt DirectionFeature film development

Experience

  • Story Artist, Story Supervisor at Pixar Animation Studios
    Emeryville, CA
    February 2004 - Present

    I contributed story development and story art to the Pixar films RATATOUILLE, UP, CARS 2, THE GOOD DINOSAUR, CARS 3, INCREDIBLES 2, ONWARD, SOUL, ELEMENTAL and ELIO. I was Story Supervisor for TURNING RED and Director of the 4*Town music video 1 TRUE LOVE. I occasionally do some visual development in the art department as well.

  • Illustrator/Author at Published works
    January 1998 - June 2016

    I've Illustrated several comics and art books. These include REX STEELE: NAZI SMASHER published by Monkeysuit Press in the US, Éditions Akileos in France and Aleta Ediciones in Spain, BILL PRESING/ARTBOOK published by Fluide Glacial, PRESING SKETCHBOOK #1 published by Comix Buro, HOROSCOPE HONEYS PIN UP CALENDAR published by Gallery Nucleus, WORKING WOMEN: THE NEW PIN-UP TEMPORARY TATTOOS published by Chronicle Books and LUCKY BOY: COQUIN DE SORT published by Ankama Editions

    I've contributed comics and illustrations to the French comics Magazine FLUIDE GLAMOUR.

    I've also self published art books including BELLE DU JOUR: CHEESECAKE BY BILL PRESING, BOOKPLATE BETTIES and 54 INTERCONTINENTAL CUTIES (card deck)

  • Art Director, Storyboard Supervisor, Character Layout Supervisor at Noodle Soup Productions
    New York, NY, United States of America
    June 2000 - January 2004

    At Noodle Soup I provided art direction to several animated pilots, supervised storyboard and character layout for Warner Bros. Animation's web series GOTHAM GIRLS (season 2 and 3) as well as Adult Swim's THE VENTURE BROS. (pilot and season 1)

  • Special Projects Supervisor at Jumbo Pictures
    New York, NY
    January 1998 - December 1999

    At Jumbo I illustrated chapter books for DISNEY'S DOUG AND PB&J OTTER published by Disney Press. These included DISNEY'S DOUG CHRONICLES and DISNEY'S DOUG: THE FUNNIE MYSTERIES. I also supervised other illustrators and provided quality control on products.

  • Clean-up Artist, Storyboard Artist, Character Designer (freelance) at Curious Pictures
    New York, NY, United States of America
    April 1996 - May 2000

    I worked on several Mo Willems lead animated series here, Including THE OFF-BEATS for Nickelodeon, SHEEP IN THE BIG CITY for Cartoon Network and the short QUICK DRAW MCGRAW IN CITY-E-SCAPE.

  • Clean-up Artist, Animator, Storyboard Artist, Art Director (freelance) at Magnet Pictures
    New York, NY, United States of America
    June 1995 - December 1997

    Here I worked on many animated television commercials including THE PINK PANTHER for Owens Corning, as well as the animated introduction to THE ROSIE O'DONNELL SHOW for which I was awarded a 1998 Daytime Emmy for best main title design.