Experience

Day 1 Studios – Chicago, IL
May 2008 – Current (Lead Character Artist since August ’09)
Position – Lead Character Artist
Duties – Responsible for managing the character team, and developing and maintaining the character pipeline. Also responsible for working with the concept team and art director, as well as the animation team to bring characters from concept to the screen. Currently working on an unannounced nextgen title.

Visual Concepts/2k Sports – Novato, CA
October 2006 – May 2008
Position – Character Artist
Duties – Artist on College Hoops 2k8, NBA 2K9 and NHL 2k9 for xbox360 and PS3. Duties included high and low resolution modeling, normal maps and texturing for mascots, coaches, players and crowd. Also rigged and bound a number of mascots and coaches and worked on lighting for players and sideline characters/crowd.

Ballistic Pixel Labs – Lake Mary, FL
June 2005 – March 2006
Position – Freelance Artist
Duties: Modeling, LODs, Uvs and texturing. Worked on multiple titles including Everquest2 (Sony Online Entertainment), Bond: From Russia With Love (EA) and Bulletproof (Genuine Games/Vivendi).

Full Sail – Orlando, FL
April 2005 – September 2006
Position – Character Modeling lab instructor
Duties: Teaching students polygon modeling techniques and helping them apply those methods to create their character models. Also responsible for teaching UV mapping and texturing techniques.

Deos Animation Studios – Lawrence, MA
October 2002 – October 2003
Position – CG Artist
Duties: Prop modeling and texturing, scene setup, compositing and character animation. Worked on A Very Wompkee Christmas which aired on PBS as a 50 minute Christmas special in December 2003.

Education

Full Sail Real world Education – Orlando, FL
November 2003 – March 2005
Graduated with an Associate Degree of Science in Computer Animation. Was the class valedictorian and the recipient of the Advanced Achiever Award.

School of the Museum of Fine Arts – Boston, MA
September 2003 – May 2004
Took Various Fine Art courses including Figure Drawing, Photography and 2D design and several technical classes in advanced Photoshop and Lightwave.

University of the Arts – Philadelphia, PA
September 2002 – May 2003
Curriculum included Figure Drawing, 3D design/sculpture and photography. Was on the fall 2002 Deans List.