Hi! I’m Chad, and I draw stories!

I am a writer, director, and storyboard artist in the entertainment industry, most recently at
DreamWorks Animation on Dragons: The Nine Realms, and I’m on the lookout
for my next high-flying adventure!

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Selected Work 

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ANIMATION

Roswell or Bust

Story & Art: Chad Welson
Genre: Action/Comedy

Based on a newspaper comic strip I created as a child, Roswell or Bust tells the story of first contact gone awry and the consequences our judgments can bring upon us.

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Dragons:
The Nine Realms

Studio: DreamWorks
Genre: Action/Adventure

 

Set 1,300 years after the events of “How to Train Your Dragon,” dragons are now just a legend to the modern world. When a geological anomaly opens an immense, miles-deep fissure in the Earth’s surface, scientists from all over the world gather at a new research facility to study the mysterious phenomenon. Soon after, a group of misfit kids uncovers the truth about where dragons have been hiding — a secret they must keep to protect what they’ve discovered.

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End Credits Storybeat Illustrations

LIVE-ACTION &
COMMERCIAL

LG G7 ThinQ Unboxing

Client: T-Mobile
Agency: Indigo Slate

Director:
Guy Baker

Director of Photography:
Aaron Russell

Producers:
Megan Nolan, David Reppond

Editing and Sound:
Erik Shapley

Executive Creative Director:
Michael Bartley

Creative Director:
Nick Beeson

T-Mobile | LG G7 ThinQ Unboxing from Indigo Slate on Vimeo.

About Chad

Chad Welson, Full-Time Storyteller, Part-time werewolf.

As a precocious child with an overactive imagination raised on a steady diet of Saturday Morning Cartoons and Cinnamon Toast Crunch, I spent my childhood either trying to acquire superpowers or provoking one of the local werewolves into biting me (quickly failing at one and deeply regretting the other).

Now, as an adult with an overactive imagination, I’ve had the pleasure of crafting everything from interactive ice sculpture exhibits based on Frosty the Snowman to virtual reality experiences for Microsoft on the floor of the Game Developers Conference. After all of those amazing adventures, I returned to my first love of animation and now hang my cape at DreamWorks Animation Television as a Storyboard Artist and Revisionist on Dragons: The Nine Realms!

Thanks to a discipline of life-long learning and inherent, endless curiosity, I love telling stories in challenging and unique mediums and I would adore the opportunity to bring my experiences to your production next.

Fair warning: Full Moons are still a problem.

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