Loryn Brantz is a two-time Emmy Award-winning illustrator and design professional. Her client list includes HarperCollins, PBS, and Facebook. She is also an award-winning children’s book author and earned the 2010 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award for Best First Picture Book for Harvey the Child Mime. Loryn is currently on staff at BuzzFeed writing and illustrating about stuff and things.

 

​LORYN BRANTZ

RESUME

Animation, Illustration, and Design Professional with experience in children’s book illustration, branding, prop and puppet building, concept development, art direction and graphic design. 

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Selected Client List:

YAHOO

PBS

The Jim Henson Company

Sesame Street Workshop

Viacom

The Coca Cola Company

Saint Judes Children's Hospital

The Philadelphia Zoo

The Bronx Zoo

Henri Bendel

Facebook Inc.

NewYork.com

 

Selected Project List:

Children’s book illustration, writing, design, and cover art:

• Not Just a Dot (Sky Pony Press), author and illustrator, due out September 2014.

• Harvey the Child Mime (Hometown 520LLC), author and illustrator, 2010 - *Moonbeam Children’s Book Award for Best First Picture Book.​

 

Branding and Design:

• Facebook Inc. 2014

Created visual concepts and ideas for campaign.

 

 

BuzzFeed

2014-Present

• Associate Editor/Illustrator

• Staff Writer/Illustrator

 

HarperCollins

2012-2014                                                                                                                                                                       
Illustrator                                                                                                                                                                    

• Titles include: On with the Show, Bedtime Stories, Oopsie-Daisy, The Pumpkin Plan and Splat Goes to the Doctor.

 

Puppet Kitchen

2011-2014                                                                                                                                                                           
Builder/Designer

• Built puppets and props for the live tour of Clifford the Big Red Dog, Scholastic. 

• Built Props for YAHOO's "Losing it with John Stamos".

• Painted sets for Bronx Zoo's Spooktacular.

 

Jim Henson’s Workshop                                                                                                              

2006-2011
Builder/Designer
Designs and builds props, illustrates prop graphics, refurbishes and assists in the building of puppets, and designs and styles costumes. Prepares sets and puppets for video and photographic shoots.  

• Recognized with Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Costume, Design, and Styling for “Sesame Street” in 2009 and 2011.

• Continually innovates design of stationary and mobile props and puppets, improving function and aesthetic of props, sets, and puppets.

 

Lyon Puppets

2011

​Builder

Built puppets for Avenue Q, Paris.

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Noodlesoup Productions                                                                                                            

2005-2006
Intern  

• Championed tonal design and trapping for “Venture Brothers” on Cartoon Network. 

Dancing Diablo Studio                                                                                                                      

2005
Intern  
Provided color design, flat coloring, and inbetweening.

• Designed color for “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.”

• Acted as colorist for MTVU commercial.

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Awards and Honors

2011

• 38th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Award

2010 

• Moon Beam Children’s Book Award

• Best First Picture Book

• Mom’s Choice Award

• Readers Favorite Gold Award

• Readers Favorite Silver Award

2009

• 36th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Award

2002

•  Scholastic Gold Key Award, Scholastic Best in Show Award

 

 

Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation, 2007
School of Visual Arts

Chairman's Choice Merit Scholarship 

New York, New York