Joel L. Anderson - Maya artist, Character TD
Cell 1.310.801.6159 email joel@joel3d.com
70 Village Parkway Santa Monica Ca. 90405

I have been working as a professional 3d artist for close to 15 years. I am always 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. 
Skills/interests - Maya rigging, Modeling and Animation.
Other software - Aftereffects, Premiere, Photoshop and Dreamweaver

Employment History
May – June Bad Rain (NDA) rigged an alien character for a sci-fi television series
August – December CVFX David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive. Modeled and rigged a dinosaur skeleton (Diplodocus) from NHM in London. Rigging also included a skinned version of the dinosaur using Maya Muscle system
June 2013 Picture Mill Rigging and animation of a Dragon for 47 Ronin movie trailer.
April - May 2013 Tribute Kiosk Yasna Inc. Character Modeling rigging and animation of female character for a wedding planner/designer
March 2013 Blackmath Character rigging for Clorox ‘Extreme Bottle Makeover’ –Responsible for rigging a non-traditional type of character.
February 2013 Blackmath Character rigging – Responsible for rigging 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 traditional human character.
August 2012 Renderfeed, LLC. Responsible for rigging and animation of a cartoon puppy 'Begonia' included facial rigging for dialogue
May - June 2012 Buck LA Rigging and character TD ‘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
Before 2012
FIDM Part time faculty, Teaching Beginning, mid and advanced Maya classes
Buck EA Mobile, Scrabble Free
Psyop Nissan Juke 'Urban legend'
Imaginary Forces Renew / Nivia
Buck LA eTrade
Buck LA Nike WBF
Imaginary Forces Energizer bunny
Motion Theory Modeling and rigging ‘The Legendary Starfy’
Imaginary Forces Energizer bunny
Axis Animation Activision Game Cinematic. Donation of my model of T.rex skeleton
3RingCircus Discovery Channel and several public service advertisements
Imaginary Forces Celebrex
Buck Coke. Coca-Cola Zero ‘Unbelievable song’
Product Partners PX-90 Workout DVD menu
King and Country barelythere.com
Designonthefly American Music Awards
Designonthefly T-Moble Sidekick LX
Shilo Rigging Sony Singstar
*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 Moble Sidekick 3
Buck Cingular 'Push To Talk'
King and Country Zemelex, Nuvalean
Product Partners PX-90 workout
dsire.com Elements for website 'Beowulf'
Trance 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) Adjunct Professor Traditional Animation, Computer Editing and Animatic
Academy of Entertainment Technology (1997-1999) Adjunct Professor Photoshop / Aftereffects / Premiere.
SMC Launchpad (1997-1999) Adjunct Professor  Photoshop / Illustrator / Premiere / Traditional Animation.

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 in printmaking.
SMC Studied Art, Graphic design and also Natural Sciences and Biology.
Acknowledgments:
Museum Of Natural History-Contributed Donation of Dinosaur Model and rig to Los Angeles History Museum for use in exhibit kiosk -New Dinosaur exhibition.
Real-Time Enveloping with Rotational Regression by Robert Y. Wang: Donated a T.rex model and muscle system rigging for test purposes at MIT