Logan Venice, CA July 2006 – August 2006
Lead FX TD
Electronic Arts: NFS, Pontiac

Fulltank Santa Monica, CA June 2006 – July 2006
CG Supervisor

Prologue Films Malibu, CA April 2006 – June 2006
FX Animator/Designer
“Superman Returns”

Rooster Creative Los Angeles/Bangkok Nov. 2005- Jan. 2006
CG Supervisor
“Hollowman 2” (Roto and Paint Supervisor)

FUEL Los Angeles, CA Oct. 2005 - Dec. 2005
VFX Suopervisor
Barbie :30 x 3 greenscreen shoot

Ocean Monsters Los Angeles, CA Aug. 2005 – Sept. 2005
Designer, FX Animator

Logan Venice, CA May 2005 - June-2005
Lead FX TD
Marks and Spencer campaign

Studio Rollercoaster Los Angeles, CA March 2005 - April 2005
CG Supervisor
National Geographic

Bang Bang Los Angeles, CA Feb 2005 - March 2005
CG Supervisor
Hershey’s Take :30 x 3

Logan Los Angeles, CA Dec 2004 – Jan 2005
Lead TD
BBC Campaign

Pixel Magic Burbank, CA Nov 2004 – Dec 2004
Lead TD, Cloth Simulation
“Elektra”

Studio Rollercoaster Los Angeles, CA July 2004 – Nov 2004
CG Supervisor
Unilever Asian campaign

Modern Video Film Burbank, CA April 2004 – June 2004
Lead TD

The Orphanage San Francisco, CA. January ~ March 2004
Effects TD, fluid & fire simulation
Hellboy

Picture Mill Hollywood, CA. Nov ~ December 2003
-3D Designer, animator
Cinemax broadcast graphics package

The Orphanage San Francisco, CA. October 2003
-CG Supervisor
3 Commercial Spots “Playstation 2: Ratchet & Clank”

Tippet Studios, Berkeley, CA. July ~ September 2003
Effects TD
Matrix Revolutions

Imaginary Forces, Hollywood, CA May 2003
-CG Supervisor, animator
Crocodile Hunter promo for Animal Planet

Grey Matter FX, Santa Monica, CA March ~July 2003
-CG Supervisor, animator
Dynamics and particle animation for “The Italian Job”
Volumetric lighting and FX for “Pancho Villa”

Uncharted Territory, Los Angeles, CA March ~ April 2003
-CG Supervisor, animator
Pre-visualized and created two :30 spots for Sony with director Claudio Faeh (Coronado)

Digital Kitchen, Chicago, Il Dec 2002 ~ January 2003
-CG Supervisor, animator
Oribitz.com :30 spot

Imaginary Forces, Hollywood, CA Sept ~ December 2002
-CG Supervisor, animator, designer
Contributed and developed ideas for pitches on ABC, Microsoft, and Kohls commercial campaigns.
All projects were awarded.
Merryl Lynch :30 spot, The District episodic series title sequence and opening.

Studio RollerCoaster, Culver City, CA October~ November 2002
-CG Supervisor, animator, designer
Opening title sequence “Midsummer Night’s Rave”

Threshold Entertainment, Santa Monica, CA Jan ~ May 2002
-Director
Feature development for Fox Animation. Created character and environment design including show bible and animation tests for Fox Animation script “Party Animals”.

Studio RollerCoaster, Culver City, CA September~ Jan 2002
-Director / Producer
Developed, shot and edited TV series episodic pitch and pilot for Jet Set, a DJ culture and world travel series.

Click 3x LA, Santa Monica, CA November ~ August 2001
-CG Supervisor
Supervised and created twelve spots for commercial director Markus Nispell

Pixel Liberation Front, Venice, CA - October 2000
-CG Supervisor
Analysis, FX breakdown, and CG FX bidding for Newline Pictures feature script.

Gallium Digital, New York, NY - June 1999 ~ Present
- CG Supervisor
Supervised Los Angeles construction of sculpted character maquettes and digital scanning for BBD&O’s M&M’s characters campaign. Supervised live action shoot and animated bee swarm sequences in Maya and Renderman for Paramount’s season finale of “Now and Again.”

Rainmaker Digital, Burbank, CA - June 1999
- CG Supervisor / Senior TD
Created 4k Maya and Renderman stereo CG plates to composite with live-action cheetah for IMAX feature.

Curious Pictures, New York, NY - April 1999
CG Supervisor April
Created pipeline, hired talent and managed all aspects of the first season’s CG production, including: script breakdown, shot breakdown, library construction, live-action supervision, animation, rendering and tracking for 26 thirty minute episodes of HBO’s TV series “A Little Curious”
Created methodology and pipeline for Nickelodeon promos.

Imagination Plantation / WildBrain, San Francisco, CA - March 1998
- CG Supervisor / Animator
Managed animation and rendering as well as creating animation on DDB Needham’s thirty second spot for “Hershey’s Kisses.” This was the first CG spot for Hershey’s after nineteen years of stop motion.

Threshold Entertainment, Santa Monica, CA - December 1997
"Instinct" development test for Sony Pictures
Managed particle animation and particle replacement sequence of shots
Animated and tracked 16000 ants in Power Animator

"SouthPark" / Comedy Central, Westwood, CA - 1997
-CG Supervisor
Created initial CG animation test to see if CG was viable alternative to Stop Motion
Created production methodology and pipeline
Designed workstation, network, rendering farm and output solutions and implemented them
Built character and environment library; Hired and trained CG production team
Developed distributed rendering farm code; Developed shot tracking system
Trouble shooting for all aspects of production; Animated Character and FX sequences

Light Intertainment, Santa Monica, CA 1996-199
-Creative Director / Digital FX Supervisor / Co-Founder
Paramount (5555 Communications): “Star Trek: First Contact”
Paramount Records: Star Trek: First Contact ECD Soundtrack; Star Trek 30th Anniversary ECD
Disney: 1997 Calendar year contract, all movies
FOX: “The X Files”
Threshold Entertainment: “Mortal Kombat “
Netter Digital: “Babylon 5 “

DirectNet Communications, Los Angeles, CA 1995-1996
Creative Director / Digital FX Supervisor / Co-Founder
Live Entertainment: “The Arrival”; Netter Digital : “Babylon 5”
Threshold Entertainment: “Mortal Kombat”; Paramount Digital: Home Video
Writers Guild of America; Capitol Records; House of Blues

Silicon Studios / SGI / Alias / Wavefront , Santa Monica , CA 1995
Production Instructor
CG Production / Alias PowerAnimator software instructor

G*Design / Propaganda Films - Technical Director , Hollywood, CA 1995

Moving Pixels - Techical Director, Santa Monica, CA 1994

Lightspan Entertainment - Technical Director, Los Angeles, CA 1994

NovoCom/GRFX - Technical Director, Hollywood, CA 1994

Unitel Video Technical Director, Hollywood, CA 1993

ImageWorks Studios, Los Angeles, CA 1991-1993
Technical Director / Head of Animation Dept.
Peter Gabriel / Cirque Du Soleil / Conrad / Hilton Hotels

Set and Directing experience :

- Live Action Director
Sept - Nov 1999
Directed 2nd camera unit for live-action documentary interview for “Mumia Abu Jamar”
Directed 2nd camera unit for live-action documentary “Return of a Shaolin Hero” in two-week shoot in China.
- CG Director
January 1999
Directed CG component of national thirty second Fisher Price spot for Young & Rubicam at Curious Pictures

Education :

Parsons School of Design / Otis , New York, NY 1987
Photography

New School for Social Research New York, NY, 1987
Political Science, Philosophy

Boston Unversity, College of Communications Boston, MA 1987-1991
Film School, Photography, Art History (Bachelor of Science degree in Communications)

USC Los Angeles, CA, 1992
Computer Science

SMC, Santa Monica, CA, 2000
Anthropology

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2001
Project Management