Summary

                                                                              

I’m a  character animator delivering successful and creative animations for over 10 years of professional experience in advertising, video games, film and Internet. Equally skilled at hand keyed or motion capture animation, video game or cinematic animation. Proficient in Maya, 3D studio Max, Character Studio, Premiere, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver and many other animation, sound and film editing software. Along with being a professional animator I’m an accomplished musician at traditional artist. Ultimately I see my self as an artist with scope and vision larger than a single skill set and the professionalism to work eagerly and productively within a team. I thrive on working with groups of talented people sharing ideas and building on creating something of quality and importance.

 

Professional Experience

 

Character Animator, Donnerwood Media, San Francisco Ca             10.01.05-present                                        

· Character animation for a internets site www.Meez.com.

· I modeled and animated the two characters for the web site which allows the user to make and use a 3d avatar  for  personal digital identification.

 

Character Animator, EA Redwood City Ca                             4.05.04-10.01.05

· Character animator providing hand keyed animation on Sims2Console in addition to being selected as a mentor to younger animators.

· Character animator cleaning motion capture and animating objects on Bond (From Russian With Love).

 

Character Animator, 3DO, Redwood City Ca                                       1.02-8.03

· 3d character animator for the Xbox games Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Johnny Mosely2.

· Under art direction from Jason Kaehler, Art Director. Duties included hand keyed and motion capture cleaning. Design and completion of animation and movesets for game characters.

· Organized file and naming conventions for animation library and character bios.

· Contributed to group game development and team organization through design and idea sharing.

 

Character Animator, Infinite Machine, Berkeley CA                       2.01-11.01 

·  3d character animator for the Xbox game New Legends.

·  Duties included being 1 of 4 animators creating storyboards, animatics, cinematics and in-gamed character animation using only hand keyed animation.

 

Character Animator, Well Pig Studios, San Francisco CA                 12.98-4.99 

·  I was a contractor animating key scenes on the Korean short film Lost Shoes.

·  My job was to storyboard and create animatics based off the script and upon approval from the director animate four key action sequences.

 

Character Animator, Jinx, San Francisco CA                                        6.98-2.01

·  3d and 2d character animator for multiple highly successful animated internet cartoons for Warner Bros. Entitled Li’l Green Men and Kung Fu the animated series staring David Carridine.

·  Duties included creating storyboards, animatics, sound editing and facial lip synch while directing a team of 3 animators in completing 7 of the 13 episodes of Li’l Green Men.

·  Extensive motion capture animation cleanup on the animated series Kung Fu.

  

Education

 

· Academy of Art College, San Francisco Ca                                               BFA, Computer Arts (animation)

                                                                                                                     Graduated with Honors 1998

· Chabot College, Hayward Ca                                                                       AA, Music performance

 

Languages

· English (Primary language)

· Portuguese

 

Achievements

 

·  Worked on video games New Legends, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Mucha Lucha, Johnny Mosely 2, Sarges Army Men, Sims2Console and From Russian With Love (James Bond).

·  Lead animator on the Knife Trader for the Digital Film Festival.

·  Lead animator on the 1^st place award winning animation entitled,”Godzilla” for the Animation World  Networks 2001 animation competition.

 

Personal Interests

 

·  My interests have allways spanned many things, including music, art, film and  sports. Hopefully I can allways find a means of connecting the relationship of one with the nature of the other. I see a bright future where I’m going to continue being productive and happily creating art, music and community with others in a professional and personal persuit of wholeness and success and happiness.