Professional Experience

Senior Artist. Rebel Arts Animation Studio. Washington, DC Aug. 09 – Present

Responsibilities include producing 2D and 3D artwork, models, textures, animation, visual effects, camera tracking, rigging, compositing, matte painting, motion graphics and performing any supplementary artist and animation related tasks as assigned by the Creative Director.

3D Visual Effects Artist. National Geographic. Washington, DC Jun. 08 – Aug. 09

Responsibilities included 3D modeling, setup, animation, texturing, lighting and rendering. Communicate with Director, Art & Animation; Series Producers, Producers, and Post Production Supervisors in order to realize creative objectives and budgetary restrictions concerning art and animation projects.

Graphic/Media Designer. Moon Advertising. Savannah, Ga. Jan. – Mar. 08

Edited and produced television commercials in the Georgia/South Carolina area. Created and maintained websites for small business entities using html, flash, and php. Responsibilities also included print ads, brochures, business cards, billboards and special events.

Teaching Assistant. Savannah College of Art & Design. Savannah, Ga. Sep. – Nov. 07

Helped students apply the principles of animation using 3D software. Introduced some of the software, tools and methods used in producing 3D animation.

Intern. Randall Mars Architects. McLean, Va. Jun. – Aug. 04

Created detailed physical models of several high-end residential projects. Created 3D models and final renders to pre-visualize client/architect proposals. Worked on construction documents and site documentation.

Additional Experience

Freelance Work. Various Web Projects

Producing title graphics and advertisements for web based content.

Pipeline Manager/ Compositor. Student 3D Collaborative Project. Jan. – Mar. 07

Organized and maintained workflow and file structure. Provided assistance and troubleshooting through all stages of production. Composited render passes and created glow and lighting effects.

Technical Skillset

Maya, Mudbox, Nuke, Shake, After Effects, 3d Max, Final Cut, Dreamweaver, WordPress CMS, Face/Setup Machine, Renderman 2.0, Adobe Products and others.

Working knowledge with: MEL scripting, Flash, PHP, HTML, CSS, Terragen

Education

MA : Animation, 2008

Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, Ga.
Dean’s List

BS : Architecture, 2005

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Va.
Dean’s List

Accolades

Nominee, Red Stick Pitch Festival 2008 for animated series “About Woo” For more info check out: www.AboutWoo.com

Gold Award, TIVA Awards 2011 for Motion Graphics: 2D/3D Animation Over $25,000