SOFTWARE

Maya, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Painter, Deep Paint, Illustrator, ImageReady, Flash, TileStudio, ProMotion, Director 3D.


EXPERIENCE

Freelance Digital Artist - 2002-Present

• Nike/AKQA: Character sprites and portraits for Lebron James and the Chamber of Fear web game which appeared on the Nike Basketball web site for Japan, China, Korea and other Asia Pacific countries.
• Capybara Games: Creation of sprite and tile art for two J2ME mobile games, SMABU and Super Shove Shove, as well as current titles in development. Duties also include training art interns and creating art specs and production pipeline (compression etc.) for all games.
• XXIst Century Digital Boy Soft: Sprite and tile art for Wolf n Granny for the Danger Hiptop/Sidekick smartphone.
• Oker Mobile: creation of sprite and tile art for Mobile RPG Scaled Lords: The Search mobile RPG.
• Marble Media: creation of 2D animated character in After Effects for television show Deaf Planet.
• Shinnyo Interactive Audio: created motion logo and corporate image.
• Zenon Environmental Inc (ongoing): 3D Animated promotional videos for Zenon water filtration plants, promotional 3D stills, real time 3D product display etc.
• Creation of 3D art assets for University of Toronto therapeutic stereoscopic videogame project.
• ZED TV: Independent 3D animated short These Borrowed Eyes broadcast on CBC television.

• Created 3D visual effects in Maya for feature films as well as television series and commercials. Credits include:
  Film: Men with Brooms, Cube 2: Hypercube, Blizzard.
  Television: Cameron Cruz (TV pilot), Veritas: The Quest, Relic Hunter

• Designed web pages and multimedia CD-ROMs for a variety of clients.

• Created tile-sets and sprites for homebrew Gameboy Color game. Examples and tech demo ROM available at request.

• Graduated from the Digital Animation program at Centennial College among the top of my class. Won the “Best Visual Effects Project” award. Classes included storyboarding, life drawing, texturing, modelling, lighting, and animation theory. Software learned included Maya, Houdini and Softimage. 2000-2001
• Studied Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at University of Toronto 1997-1999