Dave Schoneveld 3D Effects Animator


Professional Experience:

Dreamworks - current
Monsters Vs. Aliens Effects TD
Kung Foo Panda Effects TD

Industrial Light and Magic/San Francisco – 2007
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Effects TD

Café fx/Santa Maria 2006

Coke Commercial Effects Animator
Eragon Effects Animator

Luma Pictures 2003 - 2006
Digital Artist

Covenant Lead Effects Animator
Prime Evil Lead Effects Animator
Zoom Lead Effects Animator
Silent Hill Lead Effects Animator
First Snow Lead Effects Animator
Underworld 2 Lead Effects Animator
Nike Commercial Lead Effects Animator
The Cave Lead Effects Animator
Sky Captain, and the World of Tomorrow Effects Animator
Into the Blue Effects Animator
Cursed Digital Artist
Crash Effects Animator
Havana Nights, Dirty Dancing 2 Lead Digital Compositor
Wicker Park Digital Artist

CBS Digital 2005

Steven King’s Desperation Fluid Effects
Category 7 Effects Animator

Brain Tangent 2005

Perfect Dark Zero (Game Trailer Cinematics) Effects Animator

Apparatus Creative 2003
Digital Artist (freelance)

  • Modeled, rigged, animated, lit, textured, pre viz stages in MAYA for Janet Jackson performance
  • Matchmoved and composited test scenes for presentation to Presidents of Apparatus
  • Edited, composited, and created motion graphics for Stone Temple Pilot tour video/Nissan promo

Hakama Design 2002-2003
Digital Artist

  • Revised HD versions of 007 Bond films, Rainman, Cool Blue, Carrington, Once Bitten, Best Seller, Foxy Brown, The Bounty, The Howling 2, Jeepers Creepers, National Lampoons: Movie Madness, and Flirting for MGM/UA & ABC
  • Motion tracked, matchmoved, rotoscoped mattes, painted frames and/or composited fixes in HD
  • Logo and sign advertisement removal, 3d CGI or 2d elements tracked and added to change, cover up, or in someway alter the scene. This includes digital clothing added to women and CG blood and bullet hole fixes.

Teaching Experience:

Gnomon School 2005-Present
Teacher
Fluid: Fundamentals –Teaching a five week course on Maya’s Fluid Effects

Gnomon Workshop 2004-2005
Producer, Effects Artist
(Developed and produced three DVDs that will ensure the student a solid understanding of Voxel-based dynamics)
Fluid DVD01: Fundamentals
Fluid DVD02: Particle Integration, Oceans
Fluid DVD03:Pyrotechniques

Technical Experience:

3D Applications
Primary: Alias Maya, Syflex, Form-Z, Zeno (@ ILM)
Secondary: Houdini, 3ds Max, Shave & a Hair Cut, Matchmover

2D Applications
Primary: Shake, Fusion, Combustion , Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier Flash
Secondary: Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Flash

Programming Languages
Primary: MEL (Maya Embedded Language) Python
Secondary: C, Pearl, JavaScript, HTML

Education:

Ex’pression Center for New Media – Emeryville, CA, 2001
Associates of Applied Science – Digital Visual Media

Coastal Valley College – Emeryville, CA, 2001
Associates of Applied Science – Computer Graphics & Animation

The Pennsylvania State University
– University Park, PA, 2000
Bachelor of Arts – Integrative Arts

*Alias Certified Character Animation in MAYA

Please Contact Bob Coleman
13323 Washington Boulevard, Suite 304, Los Angeles, CA 90066
310-788-3918 M. 310-293-8718 F. 310-788-3415 http://www.d-a-a.com