Objective

To work with a company that is capable of maintaining a team of creative and intelligent individuals willing to culture a growth based environment.

Work experience:

Pendulum Studios - July 2010 - July 2011

Lighting & Shading Artist

• Surfacing of characters and props including Texturing and Texture adjustments (Photoshop / Maya / Mental Ray / Advanced knowledge of shader networks)
• Light Rig creations for characters and Environments (HDR and Mental Ray shaders)
• Creation of renderable scene elements / testing lighting quality and composition
• Sega / Marvel Studios: Captain America *Pre-Rendered Trailer – Look Development / Character  Texturing / Shading and Lighting / Environment Shading and Lighting / Rendering
• Sega / Marvel Studios: Thor *Pre-Rendered Trailer – Look Development / Character Texturing / Shading and Lighting / Environment Shading and Lighting / Rendering
• THQ / Volition: Red Faction Armageddon *Pre-Rendered Cinematic – Look Development / Shading and Lighting / Environment Shading and Lighting / Rendering
• Disney / Propaganda: Tron Evolution *Real-time Cinematic – Character Lighting / Rendering

Skills/Software:

• Windows/Mac/Linux; adaptable, quick to adjust and perform necessary tasks when needed.
• Autodesk Maya / MudBox, Lighting, Materials, Texturing, Hard Surface Modeling and UV Work.
• Mental Ray proficient, including host application rendering and render diagnostics.
• Adobe Photoshop proficient, utilized for texture creation and post process compositing.
• Foundry Nuke proficient, compositing using adaptive render pipelines to leverage visuals.
• Pixelogic Zbrush experience, generation of texture maps.

Eduction:

Full Sail University, Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Animation
• Course Director’s Award - Portfolio Content Creation 1

Achievments:

• Evolve - CG            The Hunter’s World - Grand Prize Winner in CG Team Category
• Autodesk                Education Article - Work featured in Education Article on Autodesk Website