ROB BUCHANAN

Personal Information

DOB: 04.19.70

Citizenship: USA

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

2011

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Art Director for SpongeBob SquigglePants for Nintendo 3DS and Wii.

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Animation Director on Bloodrayne Betrayal for XBLA and PSN.

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Thor - God of Thunder for Nintendo DS.

 

2010

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Batman the Brave and the Bold for Nintendo Wii.

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Shantae: Risky's Revenge for Nintendo DSi.

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Game designer/director on Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem for Nintendo DS

 

2009

KLEIN PRODUCTIONS (Los Angeles, USA) Character animator and modeler for Halloween Screams, the digital companion to the '09-'10 Disneyland Halloween fireworks show, projected at Cinderella's Castle, Small World and Rivers of America.

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Game designer/director on Baseball Blast! for Nintendo Wii

 

2008

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Game designer/director on Where the Wild Things Are for Nintendo DS

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Boom Blox for Nintendo DS

 

KLEIN PRODUCTIONS (Los Angeles, USA) Character animator and modeler for the T-Mobile G1 Launch Event, a media party produced by Google to promote the release of the G1 smart phone.

 

2007

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Game designer/director on Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck for Nintendo DS

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Shrek: Ogres and Dronkeys for Nintendo DS

 

2006

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Game designer/director on SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab for the Nintendo DS

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Menu Designer and Artist on Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princesses for the Nintendo DS

 

2005

UPSTART GAMES (Dublin, Ireland) Creative Director for the company with work on a number of mobile phone games including: Nemo’s Aquarium, Miami Vice, Topolon, Sudoku, Final Fight, Ape Escape: Grand Prix, Dance Dance Revolution, G-Unit: Free Yayo, Tenchu: Ayame’s Tale

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Designer, Producer and Director on Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus for GBA, published by Vivendi/Universal

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Background artist on Ping Pals for Nintendo DS, published by THQ

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Designer on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Controller Plug-n-Play TV game

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Designer and Character animator on Leapster Batman published by Leap Frog

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Art Director on Spider-Man and Friends PC CD-ROM educational title, published by Activision

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Pixel artist on SpongeBob: The Movie mobile phone game published by THQ Wireless

 

KLEIN PRODUCTIONS (Los Angeles, USA) Character animator and modeler for Twice Charmed, a multi-media stage show based on Disney’s Cinderella playing on board the Disney Wonder and Disney Magic cruise ships

 

2004

KLEIN PRODUCTIONS (Los Angeles, USA) Character animator and modeler for Celebrate the Journey, a multi-media stage show playing on board the Disney Wonder and Disney Magic cruise ships

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character animator on SpongeBob: The Movie for GBA published by THQ

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character animator on Barbie: The Princess and the Pauper for GBA published by Vivendi Universal

 

2003

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Lead Character Modeler and Animator on Spy Vs. Spy for Playstation 2 and Xbox published by TDK Interactive

 

KLEIN PRODUCTIONS (Los Angeles, USA) Character animator and modeler for The Golden Mickey Awards, a multi-media stage show playing on board the Disney Wonder and Disney Magic cruise ships

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Rescue Heroes: Billy Blazes for GBA published by Vivendi Universal

 

2002

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Godzilla: Domination! for GBA published by Atari

 

2001

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on The Scorpion King: The Sword of Osiris for GBA published by Vivendi Universal

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Designer and Character Animator on Cassi: Earth Girl On Campus an original episodic web adventure game launching the Shockwave 3D web technology, produced by Shockwave.com and Intel

 

2000

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on WCW Mayhem for GBC, published by Electronic Arts

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Designer and Character Animator on Escher Street, an original web game

 

1999

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Scattergories, published by Hasbro Interactive

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Howard Marks Video Casino Games, published by Hasbro Interactive

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator for the Shockwave.com online games: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, The Roll Ahead, Abduct This!, Run Agent Run! and Whack The Ewok

 

1998

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Outburst, published by Hasbro Interactive

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Lost In Space: Math Adventure, published by Sound Source Interactive

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on children’s PC titles, Babe: Pig in the City, An American Tail: Movie Book, and The King and I Activity Center, published by Sound Source Interactive

 

1997

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Star Warped, The X-Fools, and Microshaft, a line of parody PC titles published by Parroty Interactive

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on The Casper Junior Activity Center, published by Sound Source Interactive with Harvey Entertainment

 

1996

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Marvel Super Heroes: Amazing Math, published by Brighter Child Interactive with Marvel Films

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Madison’s Adventures Growing Up Wild: Mad About Cats!, published by Brighter Child Interactive in association with the BBC.

 

1995

WAYFORWARD GAMES (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Beethoven’s 2nd for the Sega Genesis, published by Hi-Tech Expressions with Universal Pictures

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Creator and Designer on The Boarders, an original children’s educational PC title

 

1994

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Mickey’s Ultimate Challenge, for the Super NES, Game Boy, Genesis, Game Gear and Sega Master System published by Hi-Tech Expressions with Disney

 

WAYFORWARD (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on The Muppets: Beginning To Read and The Muppets: Reading and Phonics, educational software published by Brighter Child Interactive with Henson Productions

 

MEDIA WORKSHOP (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animator on Nicole Rubel’s Pirate Jupiter and the Moondogs, an educational PC title published by Vtech

 

EDUCATION

CalArts (Los Angeles, USA) Character Animation Program, school of film/video. Graduated certificate program May, 1993.