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Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Art Director/Visual Development Artist/Professor
Location	Los Angeles, CA, United States
Introduction	3-time Emmy Award winning artist & background designer. CalArts 1989-90. I started my career in Animation in 1990 as an animator/character layout artist on the 2nd season of the Simpsons. I ended up becoming a designer and have been designing backgrounds for a living. I've been lucky enough to work at all the big studios in Hollywood: Klasky-Csupo, Warner Bros, Disney, Netflix, Fox, MGM, Hanna-Barbera, DreamWorks TV, Sony, Jim Henson Studios, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Laika. I am currently work as a VisDev Artist, Designer or Art Director on new projects in Los Angeles, CA. "Frederick Gardner Design". Interested in contacting me for freelance? Email me at ElFrederico3@gmail.com. Frederick Gardner's blog is updated from Los Angeles, CA and Dallas, TX.
Favorite movies	The Wizard of Oz, Sleeping Beauty, Mary Poppins, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Jaws, The Thing (1982) & Inception.
Favorite music	The Beatles, The Cure, David Bowie and anything by Mozart.
Favorite books	The Hobbit (Tolkien), Mountains of Madness (Lovecraft), most of Steven King's work, Dune (Herbert), Victor Hugo and Jules Verne.