EDISON'S NOTEBOOK
Edison Matthew Hale
Experience
Concrete Temple Theatre, Sirovich Senior Center
Aided in a seven-week spring intensive for older adults: LAND, AIR, WATER, contributing as a puppeteer and sound designer to the AIR segment, a devised shadow puppetry performance titled “Airily We Roll Along.”
2024, Participating Artist & Sound Designer - Created and executed sound design using Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition, ensuring seamless integration and effective looping.
Internships
Summer Design Institute, Department of Education, NYC
Contributed to a Summer Internship Program developing a digital multicultural marketing campaign. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to create animations and artwork. Sponsored by the CTE Office and WarnerMedia, HBO Max Pa’Lante.
2023, Art Director, Production Team - Responsible for leading a team of nine, creating merchandise, advertising and pop-up event design. Developed Capstone Presentation.
2022, Marketing Team Member - Created concept art for posters, helped with slideshow development for Capstone Presentation . Backstage support during final presentation running the capstone presentation.
AND Creates
Applied career technical knowledge for real world clients and delivered professional industry standard projects. Presented proposals to clients for approval.
2021 - 2023, Brand Marketing Team Member -
Even Hotel Mural Project – Interior Mural Design
WarnerMedia – Social Media marketing utilizing the Looney Tunes Characters
59E59 Theaters – Interior Signage Design
Skills
Adobe
Certified Professional
Visual Design using Photoshop (expires May 2027); Visual Effects & Motion Graphics using Adobe After Effects (expires June 2026); Multiplatform Animation using Adobe Animate (expires June 2026)
Technical Skills
Google Slides, iMovie, Procreate, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, and Autodesk Maya
Other Skills
Strong interpersonal skills, proactive collaboration, adept at employing creativity and artistic techniques to visually convey stories, self-sufficiency, and a creative work approach with an artistic sensibility.
Education
Baltimore, MD
Expected graduation 2027
Bachelor of Fine Arts Candidate in Animation, Concentration in Stop-Motion
New York, NY
Graduated 2023
CTE Diploma/Advanced Designation in Visual Arts, emphasis in Animation Digital Arts Program
Accomplishments in Animation Class
Mentored younger classes in animation projects and reviewed freshmen websites
Initiated & Led Adobe Animate Workshop for classmates, teaching parallaxing and tweening.
Training
School of Visual Arts
2022, Pre-College Program
Computer Animation with Maya
ID Tech
2020 - 2022
Virtual Tech Camps: Make a YouTube Channel: Animations and Digital Shorts; 3D Modeling & Design with Autodesk Maya
Private Lessons: Animation with Adobe Animate