Sacramento, CA 95842
darkurr@hotmail.com
(Phone number available upon request)
SKILLS:
Traditional Art: Drawing, Sketching, Painting, Sculpting
Software: Photoshop, 3DS Max, Unreal 3 Engine, Mudbox, Aurora Engine, After Effects, Premiere, Flash, Audition, Painter, Final Cut Pro,
Media & Design: Compositing, Editing, Storyboarding, GUI Design, Intermediate HTML, Basic Coding
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Semilogic Entertainments, West Sacramento, CA 5/04 - Present
Artist
General Duties:
- Create 2D/3D art, and video assets
- Create deadlines for myself and coworkers
- Monitor artists and project progress
- Collaborate with other artists and programmers
- Game testing
Other Duties:
- Travel to improve relations with branch overseas
- Manage and direct group of artists overseas
- Travel to corporate office in Palo Cedro,CA to plan and finalize projects
Published Games:
Deloitte Spill! (PC, Aurora Engine, in-house engine)
- Lead Character Artist: managed group of character artists, designed/implemented characters
- Project Manager: directed artists, talked to clients
- Animated real-time 3D characters
- Created swappable PC clothing, heads, icons, props
- Assisted programmers with scripting
Thomas & Friends: Full Speed Ahead (Bright Things Bubble Device - DVD Based, Exclusive to U.K.)
- Created art assets for menus, icons, game props
- Composited art with original video footage
- Organized project information in Excel sheets
- Edited audio
- Worked directly with clients
Unnamed/Unfinished Projects:
Project 1 - New York City-Themed Educational RPG (PC, in-house engine):
- Created character concepts
- Modeled, textured characters, props, building interiors
- Created 2D/3D icons, inventory GUI
- Wrote story and dialogue
Project 2 - Baseball-Themed DVD Game (DVD Gaming Device):
- Lead Artist, directed other artists
- Worked closely with Lead Programmer
- Organized project progress, artist jobs
- Created 2D art assets
- Cut, edited, composited footage with 2D art assets
Project 3 - School-Themed Educational RPG (PC, in-house engine):
- Created character concepts for Lead Artist
- Modeled, textured 3D characters
- Modeled and textured characters, props
EDUCATION:
Associate of Science, Information Technology - Multimedia
ITT Technical Institute, Rancho Cordova, CA
Graduation: December 2004
Highest Honors: 2003
Honors: 2004
National Dean's List: 2002-2004
Courses Include:
- 3D Modeling
- Animation
- Broadcast Graphics
- Audio/Video Techniques
- Flash
- Visual Design Theory/Interactive Communication Design
- GUI Design
- Capstone Project
- Computer Programming
- Scripting and Web Authoring
Business Related: Group Dynamics, Problem Solving, Professional/Technical Procedures
General Ed: Algebra, English Composition, Economics
References available upon request.