Expanded Skills

High & low res poly, organic & hard surface modeling, sculpting, UV mapping, digital & traditional painted texture maps, texture and shader setups, as well as 3D & 2D character & asset animation. A solid understanding of lighting and render passes. Life drawing, anatomy, 2D & 3D shot composition, painting, story and asset development, compositing, and audio & video editing.

Education

Ringling College of Art & Design,

Sarasota, FL

BFA in Computer Animation – May 2010

ITT Technical Insitute, Thornton, CO

AAS in Multimedia - March 2005

Highest Honors

Work experience

• Lit shots for Audi commercial using V-Ray in Maya

• Render Wrangled using Deadline

Lighter & Render Wrangler, Prologue Film, Los Angeles

August 2014 - September 2014

• Created Facial animation for video game NBA2K

Animator, Counter Punch Studios, Los Angeles

June 2014 - August 2014

Freelance 3D Artist, Hot Buttered Elves, Los Angeles, CA

June 2013

• Modeled high resoltion Disney Minnie Mouse™ for 3D printing using Zbrush and Maya

Background Environment Artist, Electronic Arts, Danger Close Games, Los Angeles

March 2012 - January 2013

• Reviewed & corrected previously created enlighten meshes for buildings & props in Maya and Frostbite.

• Read and understood light maps and sky visibility to resolve enlighten problems.

• Converted high poly LODs into low poly meshes for enlighten for quick game play.

• Created new enlighten and LOD meshes for buildings and props and edited UVs to keep textures intact.

• Optimized 3D level art content for better performance while preserving visual fidelity.

• Coordinated with Environment & Lighting artists to resolve Frostbite enlighten issues quickly & efficiently

Medal of Honor: Warfigher (Oct, 2012)                      Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel (March, 2013)

Software Skills

After Effects CS5

Audition 2.0

Bridge CS5

Crazybump

Deadline

Dreamweaver CS5

Illustrator CS5

InDesign CS2

Encore CS5

Frostbite

Photoshop CS5

Premiere CS5

Maya 2013

Mental Ray

Corel Painter X

Perforce

PuppetShop

The Setup Machine

Apple Shake

Nuke 5.1

3D Studio Max 2014

Microsoft Office Suite

Windows  2000-7

Zbrush 4R5

2010 - present

2010 - present

Environment Artist, Christian Hall, Los Angeles, CA

January 2012 - March 2012

• Modeled, UV mapped, textured and lit photo realistic moon-scape environments and prop assets.

• Laid out camera cinematography and asset placement for 3D storyboards

Render Wrangler, Jr. Max Artist, Pixomondo, Santa Monica, CA

April 2011 - November 2011

• Monitored & load balanced the farm using Deadline & participated in management of farm hosts.

• Provided rendering support for all departments and divisions (Feature, Commercials and TV) and kept an open line of communication with each producers and project artists.

• Monitored and resolved malfunctioning farm hosts and kept farm running at maximum capacity.

Green Lantern (2011)                       Terra Nova (2011)                              Hugo Cabret (2011)                          Red Tails (2012)  

3D Modeler - remote, KD Kanopy, Westminster, CO

May 2011 - July 2011

• Modeled, UV mapped, textured, and lit company product canopies for 3d graphics for website. 

Previz Artist, Post Mango, Culver City, CA

March 2011 - April 2011

• Modeled low rez poly and NURB assets, textured, rigged, and animated 3D pre-visualization shots for the feature film Chronicle.

• Coordinated story telling beats, staging, blocking, camera angles and movement, and character progression with film director and story department and implemented them within the 3D shots.

                Chronicle (2012)