Daniel Klug

About

I am an animator at heart. I started as a tape-digitizer and worked my way up to Senior Designer and 3D Generalist at New Wave Entertainment. Then I busted myself down to the bottom again after graduating Animation Mentor (while working full time). I went through the Animation Apprenticeship at R+H, animate for them on Hop and Alvin and the Chipmunks 3, and now I'm a full-time animator at Walt Disney Feature Animation. I've had the pleasure and responsibility of supervising animation at Disney for two movies: Moana, and Ralph Breaks the Internet. I graduated Animation Mentor with a short film: http://www.lesdangereux.com I hope you enjoy it. :-) You can find my latest show reels here at my vimeo account: https://vimeo.com/danielklug Specialties: Animation, Texturing, Lighting, Compositing, Layout, and Story

Experience

• Animator at Valve corporation
  Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Blizzard Entertainment (Full-time · 2 yrs 10 mos)
  • Expert Animator
    May 2022 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Senior Animator
    Sep 2020 - May 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Walt Disney Animation Studios (Burbank, CA)
  • Animation Supervisor
    Dec 2014 - Sep 2020 · 5 yrs 10 mos

    Animation Supervisor on Moana and Wreck-It Ralph 2.

  • Character Animator
    Jan 2012 - Sep 2020 · 8 yrs 9 mos

• Character Animator at Rhythm & Hues
  Aug 2010 - Oct 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos

  Animating at R+H.

• Animator/Generalist at The Mill
  May 2010 - Jul 2010 · 3 mos