I consider myself very fortunate to have been working as a profesional 3d artist for about 14 years, and that even though my career can be technically challenging it still allows me to be artistic. I am aways looking for new creative opportunities and I have a variety of personal and professional experience that may match what you are looking for in an artist. I have a strong visual sense and background traditional fine art. I have well devoloped pratical experience working in 3D.

Maya skills/interests - Rigging, Modeling and Animation. Other software - Aftereffects, Premiere, Photoshop and Dreamweaver, Currently learning zBrush, Unity

Education
SFAI San Francisco Art Institute 1992 (BFA) Printmaking and Painting. Won ‘Best in show award’ 1992 for a print named 'Dinner at Allegro'
Awarded scholarship to study at SFAI
SMC Santa Monica College Studied Art, Graphic design and also Natural Sciences and Biology.

Other personel interests besides art - Nature, hiking, camping exploring. Natural science, Geology, Paleoentology

Employment History


August - September CVFX David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive. Modeled dinosaur skeleton from NHM, Also did rigging for dinosaur Diplodus (advanced muscle system and test animatons)
June 2013 Picture Mill Rigging and animation of a Dragon for 47 Ronin movie trailer.
April - May 2013 Anomous client Character Modeling rigging and animation of female character for a wedding planner
March 2013 Blackmath Character rigging for Clorox ‘Extreme Bottle Makeover’ –Responsible for rigging a character that was a spray bottle, nice non-traditional type of character.
Feburary 2013 Blackmath Character rigging – Responsible for rigging a couple really cool 2D/3D puppet characters
December 2012 Woodbeard Character rigging for ‘Liquid Plumber Disposer Plus’ –Responsible for rigging unusual character with 2D/3D facial attributes
October - November 2012 Superfad Francis Last Hurrah, a short film by Dave Eggers. (NDA) –Responsible for rigging high end traditional human character.
August 2012 Renderfeed, LLC. Responsible for rigging and animation of a cartoon puppy 'Begonia' included facial rigging for dialoge
May - June 2012 Buck LA Rigging and wrangling characters ‘Keebler Uncommonly good’ –Responsible for rigging a group of characters. Managed custom/auto rigging process body and facial rigging for 6 elves, 2 children, 2 adults and a few animals and birds
2011 - 2012 FIDM Part time faculty, Teaching Beginning, mid and advanced Maya classes

Before 2012

Buck EA Mobile, Scrabble Free (Still under NDA). Modeling, rigging of Mr. blue character.
Psyop Modeling and rigging (car crushing) and previs animation for Nissan Juke 'Urban legend'
Imaginary Forces Renew / Nivia, Modeling and texture of products and organic elements
Buck LA eTrade –Responsible for the little bird that explodes
Buck LA Nike WBF –Responsible for rigging basketball players
Imaginary Forces Energizer bunny (version 2) –Model, rig and animation
Motion Theory Modeling and rigging ‘The Legendary Starfy’- Rigging of Starfy, His little Dragon and a giant monster Squid
Imaginary Forces Energizer bunny (version 1) –Model, rig and animation
Axis Animation Activision Game Cinematic. Donation of my model of T.rex skeleton
3RingCircus Discovery Channel and several pupblic service advertisements. Modeling, rigging and animation
Imaginary Forces Celebrex, Modeling,rigging, animation
Employment History continued (1997-2008)
Buck Coke. Coca-Cola Zero ‘Unbelievable song’ Project intended for the Super Bowl. Responsible for rigging of a bunch of animals and birds.
Product Partners PX-90 Workout DVD menu. Complicated project that involved a Rubics Cube shuffling to reveal multiple images
King and Country barelythere.com. Created 3d models and animation of a Cinderella style horse and
Designonthefly American Music Awards. Created elements and animation for the on-air broadcast
Designonthefly T-Moble Sidekick LX. Created animated photorealistic cell phone
Shilo Rigging, Animation for Sony Singstar. Animation integrating live elements with CG
*CineVisionVFX (London) Creature rigging and pre-visual animation for 'Sea Monsters a Prehistoric Adventure' National Geographic IMAX film. Created rigging for dinosaurs, included the use of Muscle systems and dynamics.
Designonthefly Modeling, animation and rendering of T-Moble Sidekick 3. Created animated photorealistic cell phone
Buck Modeling and rigging for Cingular 'Push To Talk' commercials 'Business and Family' Created environments and props, and did character rigging.
King and Country modeling animation and rendering of fitness products Zemelex, Nuvalean
Product Partners Modeling, animation and rendering products for fitness infomercial PX-90 workout tapes and DVD
dsire.com Logo animation for movie website 'Beowulf'
Trance Logo animation for Disney television 'Teen Musical'
Troika Modeling various assets for NFL pitch(s)
3 Ring Circus Created animations of a realistic elephant for the 3RC web page. Also 3D modeling and animation for a variety of commercials: Secret Deodorant, Bose Stereo, Walmart, The Golf Channel.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Modeling and animation for 3D Crime scene re-enactment. Expert witness to demonstrate 3d visualization.
ICT Institute for Creative Technology 3D character to work with virtual reality game engine to be used for training US Army
Belief, LLC created 3D modeling and animation for Tropicana, Nissan, Foodnetwork, JCPenney, BBC America, The Carol Burnett Show, 2004 Broadcast Design Awards.
Foundation Imaging Character Animator and Production artist on television show ‘Dan Dare Pilot of the Future’.
Netter Digital Character Animator and production artist on television shows ‘Max Steel’, and ‘Dan Dare Pilot of the Future’.

Santa Monica College (1997-1999) (Instructor) Traditional Animation, Computer Editing and Animatic
Academy of Entertainment Technology (1997-1999) (Instructor) Taught Photoshop / Aftereffects / Premiere.
SMC Launchpad (1997-1999) (Instructor) Taught Photoshop / Illustrator / Premiere / Traditional Animation.
Acknowledgments: To Appear in SIGGRAPH 2007 Real-Time Enveloping with Rotational Regression by Robert Y. Wang: Donated a T.rex model and muscle system rigging for test purposes at MIT
Donation of Dinosaur rig to Los Angeles History Museum for use in exhibit kiosk -New Dinosaur exhibition.