Profile:
My passion for animation began as a young boy. I always enjoyed watching Looney Tunes classics along with old 30's era cartoons. My excitement for video games started when my parents bought a Commodore Vic 20 home computer. My summers were spent at the local arcade playing the latest video games. My 3d journey began at Technology Development Center with a computer aided design class. Drawing schematics and blueprints were never exciting to me, instead I found myself modeling Star Wars droids. I quickly changed my career path to 3d modeling.
I look forward to continuing my education and sharping my skills as an animator in video games or visual media.
Skills:
- Over 12 years experience working in the video game industry on such titles as the NHL2k and MLB2k series, Sports Champions and Medieval Moves
- Experience with motion capture and key frame animations
- A positive attitude and ability to work on a mufti-discipline team
- Ability to take direction well
- Detail oriented and organized
- Maya 2015
- Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator
- Final Cut Pro X
- Adobe After Effects
- Unreal
- 3d Studio Max
Work Experience:
- Technology Development Center 2000 Help create and animate a short animated intro for a local fitness show. Mr Fitness.
- ArchFX 2001 Created 3d models of homes that were used for a housing development video that was proposed to the city of Oxnard.
- 3d Bob Productions 2001-2003 Received an internship at 3d Bob Productions and was hired on full time. I worked with the motion capture team setting up, capturing, and editing motion capture data. Another one of my early accomplishments was digitizing the maquette for the Alley Mcbeal televison show using Studio Max. Worked on a straight to video movie :The Godman
- Kush/Take 2 Games 2003-2008 I worked on animation motion capture, and cinematics for College Hoops, NHL 2k4 through 2k8 and MLB 2k5.
- Zindagi Games 2008-2014 Worked as an animator on such titles as Sports Champions I and II and Medieval Moves for the Sony Playstation Motion Controller. Responsible for keyframe and motion capture animations for unannounced fighting game.
- Hydrogen Whiskey 2015 Worked on in game animations for Tell Tales Game of Thrones and Borderlands. Keframe character, vehicle and quadruped animations for unreleased virtual reality game.
- The Third Floor Inc. 2016-2017 Previs and character animator for feature film projects
Education:
- Ventura Community College / Computer/Art 1991-1992
- Technology Development Center / Computer Aided Design/3d Animation1999-2001
- The Animation Academy / Character Design 2004
- Academy of Art University / Intro to computer graphics for Animation (online) 2008
- Animation Mentor 2013-Present /Animation