ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
-Awarded 3rd place in student film category of the 2004 New York ASIFA East
Animation Festival for senior film, "The Cellulite Parasite"
-Awarded $1,000 every semester at University of the Arts when named a
“Promising Artist”, maintained the requirements to keep the title for entire time in that school.
-Appointed “Class artist” for the Senior class in High School. The designer of shirts, booklets, and posters for school functions in High School.
Experience
BACKGROUND:
Illustration, graphic design, 2-D animation, 3-D animation, stop-motion animation, paint-on glass
animation, sand-on-glass animation, rotoscoping, pixelation, clay animation, foam puppet construction, editing film and video (both digital and analog), life-drawing, photography.
PROGRAMS: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Sonic Foundry Sound Forge, Pro Tools, Softimage XSI, Macromedia Flash, and QuarkXpress. I function well using both MAC or PC.
WORK HISTORY: 2002 to the present, (starting with the most recent)
- Freelance illustrator/graphic designer, hired by a British band (John and Wayne) to create image for their t-shirts
- Freelance graphic designer for a logo to be used on website for Jay Nickolaus Public Relations Inc.
- Freelance graphic designer for Main Gate Incorporated of Indianapolis, Indiana. Provided ideas and illustrations for youth tee-shirt designs. Designs earned the approval of the NHRA, (National Hot Rod Association), and were then allowed to use the image of the NHRA copyrighted logo. These shirts have been of those selected to be sold at Nascar events. Worked within short deadlines by phone and e-mail.
- Freelance graphic designer for logo to used for a company called Elite Face.
- Freelance comic book illustrator/character designer for Godheval's "AWD: A World Divided"
- Freelance comic book illustrator/character designer for author/creator Kidane Yohannes
- Full-time graphic designer for Great Impressions Apparel in Wall Township, NJ, drawing cartoons, designing graphics and assembling text to go on t-shirts to be sold in stores such as JCPenney, Kohl's, Target, Walmart, Sports Authority and Sears. This job showed me how to prepare artwork to be best presented to a screen-printer and how to adapt my art
to fit a very specific demographic.
Education
EDUCATION:
2000-2003 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA. BFA in Animation.
1999-2000 Tyler School of Art, (a division of Temple University).
1995-1999 Council Rock High School, Newtown, PA.
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