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ScreenSkills Training Passport
Michael Tharme has completed the following modules within the ScreenSkills Training Passport.
Experience
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Armature Fabricator/ Head Technician/ CAD Designer/ Product Designer
I was hired to help out with armature fabrication for custom orders and have since been kept on to help grow the product range of Animation Toolkit for both kits and product parts. Along with Learning skills such as CAD modeling and 3D printing in FDM and resins, I also now prefab armatures in CAD to customer character designs before comitting to silversoldering them.
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Armature Fabricator "Morten and the Spider Queen"
I was kept on at Telegael to work on the production Morten and the Spider Queen, making additional replacement armature parts and smaller armatures of existing puppets, along with additional rigging props requested from the director and animation team.
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Armature and Puppet Fabricator "390: The Series"
I was hired to design, fabricate armatures for a number of puppets for this project along with creating silicone articulated props and additional puppets related to the projects asthetic and art style.
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Armature Fabricator "Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires"
Hired to aid in the preperation, soldering, clean up and assembly of 273 armatures for the project Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires.
Education and training
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Tackling harassment and bullying at work
ScreenSkills Funded
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Masters Degree Animation
I started the Master's Degree at UCLAN to create a program that would use the early career of Ray Harryhausen to map out a pattern of steps to allow younger students in college or BA level of animation to recognise key character and skill traits that would ultimatly make ideal skills in the aniamtion industry. I also began production on my short film, Wildlife on Mars, but this was never completed due to COVID-19 Lockdown.
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BA Hons 2:1 Animation (BA)
Continuing my studies after college at Wigan & Leigh, I stepped into Animation and honed my skills on Stop-motion, modeling alot of my 3 year course films on my special interests in Ray Harryhausen, Willis O'Brien and Phil Tippet.
Certificates
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Tackling harassment and bullying at work