Skills

- Adobe Suite: Flash MX - CS5, Photoshop CS3 - CS5, After Effects CS3-CS4, Premier Pro,
  Dreamweaver.
- Painter, Paintshop Prro, ToonBoom.
- Maya
- Mac OSX, Windows (through Windows 7).
- HTML, CSS, Actionscript.
- Social Media Marketing/blogger/wordpress/tumblr experience.
- Traditional Animation, symbol-based animation, handdrawn (flash) animation.
- Lipsync, flash rigging and character setup, layout.
- Character, Prop, and Background Design for Games and Animation.
- Digital and Traditional methods of concept design, drawing, painting, and illustration.
- Compositing, greenscreening, masking, and roto in After Effects and Graphic Design.
- Leadership and Organization, managing production workflow.

Experience

Fraiche    ( March '11 )
Contract Illusrator
Designed a decorative mural using chalk for the walls of an upscale restaurant.

CatJam Studios    (March '11)
Contract Photoshop Artist
Used Photoshop to separate stock photographs into multiple layers: foreground, midground, and background with believable realism for After Effects processing.

Psychic Bunny    ( January '11 - February '11 )
Animator
Used Flash CS4 and Illustrator to solely animate characters using hand-drawn methods for a non-disclosed project. Created the look of the animation and flow of movement throughout the piece.

I Am 8-Bit    ( August '10 - September '10 )
Contract Animator
Worked in After Effects on a non-disclosed project to create in game looping animations. Also responsible as a project manager to organize assets and direct animators on their projects.

Buck TV    ( August '10 )
Animator - World Basketball Festival Commercial
Used Flash to rotoscope, animate, clean up, and colour on a team for Nike. Used online, on air, and in Time Square.

Titmouse, Inc.    ( March '09 - January '10 )
Contract Animator - Freaknik: the Musical/DJ & the Fro
Worked in Flash with Cintiq monitors as part of a series of large teams to animate characters in a traditional fashion on a variety of television programs airing on Adult Swim and MTV.

Animax Entertainment   ( August '09 - September '09 )
Contract Animator - Popzilla
Worked in Flash as part of a large team to create symbol character animation with the use of premade character rigs for MTV.

Liveloop Technologies    ( May '08 - February '09 )
Multimedia Animator/Designer
Created content using Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash for desktop uer interfaces. Also created print marketing materials and design as required. Worked part of a eam that required good organizational skills to keep multiple projects current.

Oddbot, Inc., , Sonic Bunny Productions    ( February '08 - August '10 )
Contract Animator - Mariyoku Yummy, Sule Project, ZombieMurderExplosionDie
Used Flash to lipsync and animate characters on a variety of teams for animated shorts and shows for both festival consideration and pilot pick up.

Vivendi Games    ( April '08 - May '08 )
QA Tester Responsible as part of a team to discover problems with coding in video games, cause repetition with it, and report it as accurately and quickly as possible.

Nickelodeon Animation Studios    ( September '07 - December '07 )
Production Intern - The Mighty B
Creation and processing of all documents, data entry, copying and secretarial duties for the production department. Also handled meeting scheduling, filing, image processing, and editing of images in Photoshop as necessary to create a cohesive animation workflow.

Education

Savannah College of Art and Design - Savannah, GA
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Animation (Cum Laude). 2007.

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