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  • Animation
  • Artist
  • Character Design
  • Director
  • Drawing
  • Illustration
  • Pencil Drawings
  • Photoshop
  • Storyboarding

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  • Character Designer, Illustartor

    $75/hr Starting at $75 Ongoing

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    Character Designer of X-Men: Evolution, The Swan Princess, and The Ultimate Avengers. Animator, Director, Storyboard Artist, and Illustrator 40 years of professional experience

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About

Character Designer of X-Men: Evolution, The Swan Princess and The Ultimate Avengers. Animator, Director, Storyboard Artist and Illustrator

Steven E Gordon’s professional career began in 1977 when his High School art teacher saw a trade-paper ad asking for portfolio submissions. To everyone’s surprise his slap-dash, disorganized portfolio was accepted and he was hired by Ralph Bakshi Productions to work on the animated feature film Lord of the Rings. Steven ended up finishing High School at night and never looked back. He stayed with Ralph through several more films was promoted to Animation Director and Key Animator/Character Designer on the Ralph Bakshi / Frank Frazetta feature Fire and Ice.

After that "back door" entry into the animation industry, he landed the unusual entry job of Animator at Disney Pictures animating on The Black Cauldron and stayed there for about five years and managed to leave just in time to avoid the unexpected Animation Renaissance during the 90's. He returned to Bakshi to direct on the groundbreaking Mighty Mouse series and then he spent 12 years working on and off with Rich Animation on a series of direct-to-videos, doing character design and layout and was Animation Director / Character Designer / Key Animator on The Swan Princess. He also was key animator during this period of Holli Would and Lonette on Cool World.

Then he started the job that he is to this day still best remembered as one of the directors and the sole character designer on X-Men: Evolution. After the second season of X-Men: Evolution was completed, Dreamworks Animation hired him as a story artist while at night he continued to do all the character designs for X-Men: Evolution for seasons 3 and 4.

After a five year stint at DW he went on to be a director on Marvel/LionGate as well as the character designer on The Ultimate Avengers and its sequel. He was then hired to be one of the directors on the popular, but short-lived TV series, Wolverine and the X-Men for Marvel and Kickstart. He was also one of the director’s on The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes for Marvel and Starz. And in his quest to c

Work Terms

I'm willing to consider almost any job within reason.