3D Artist/Animator at Atmosphere Visual Effects
Motion Pictures and Film | Vancouver, Canada Area, CA
Keyframe character/creature animator with 5 years experience on TV series, MOWs, and feature-length films.
Specialties: Maya, XSI Softimage, Photoshop, Boujou, Shake, Illustrator, creature animation, facial animation, textures, lighting, matte painting, illustration, digital painting
Apr
2012 - Present
3D Artist/Animator / Atmosphere Visual Effects
Primeval: New World (TV Series, 2012)
Jan
2012 -
Mar
2012
Freelance Animator / Various side projects and vfx studios
Jun
2006 -
Nov
2011
Animation Lead/ 3D Artist / Anthem Visual Effects
Primary tasks: Creature/character animation
Secondary tasks: textures, lighting and matte painting
Neverland (2011, tv miniseries) - lead animator
Sanctuary, seasons 1-4 (2008-2011, tv series) - lead animator (also did lighting, matte painting, and texturing in season 1)
Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2009, feature-length film) - vfx
Alice (2009, tv miniseries) - animation
Vipers (2008, tv movie) - animation
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008, tv movie) - animation
Tin Man (2007, tv miniseries) - animation, character texturing
Masters of Science Fiction (2007, tv miniseries) - animation
La Terze Madre / Mother of Tears (2007, feature-length film) - matte paintings, animation
Masters of Horror, season 2 (2006-2007, series) - animation, lighting
Son of the Dragon (2006, tv movie), animation
Aug
2007 -
Nov
2008
Co-founder, Co-editor, layout and graphic artist / Rain - Radical Art in Nature
A local Vancouver publication.
* created layout of entire publication
* created illustrations for feature articles
* collected illustrations and poems from other artists
Some features from previous issues: Noam Chomsky, Irwin Oostindie, Dr. David Suzuki, Deborah Williams, cr avery, The Fugitives, OK Giraffe, Brian Tokar, Adam Jones and Helen Hughes.
2004 -
2008
Freelance Graphic/Layout Artist / Various Clients
Illustration, graphic web elements, book layouts and posters for various companies and organizations:
RAIN (local zine) 2007-2008 - provided illustrations as well as book layout and editing.
IDEC 2008 (International Democratic Education Conference at UBC) - created event poster, as well as tshirt design and illustration.
Adsoda Interactive 2006 - created graphic elements (buttons, tabs, bullets and headings) for website use.
YouAre Industries 2004-2005 (local clothing company) - provided illustrations for silkscreen printing.
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2004
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2005
Vancouver Film School
3d Animation and Visual Effects
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2002
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2004
Camosun College
Visual Arts
Activities: Held gallery shows at: Rogue Art Gallery, EC Gallery, CAC Gallery, UVIC, Victoria City Hall
Selected for Independent Animation Studies
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Websites:
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Honors:
* Featured on Frederator Podcast - 2006
* Nicktoons Animation Festival - Viewer's Choice Award 2006
* Vancouver Film School - Scholarship Award 2005
* Camosun College - Jessie Allan Forsyth Memorial Scholarship Award of Excellence 2004
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Interests:
animation, character, cg, creature, textures, shaders, lighting, matte painting, compositing, concept art, artistic development, guitars, singing, songwriting, illustration, digital art