Experience

• Senior 3D Generalist at OnChain Studios

  Reno, NV, United States of America

  October 2021 - Present

  Creating art for marketing, games, and many other mediums as well as creating tools, documentation, and assisting in the creation of the multiple DCC pipeline.

• 3D Artist III at IGT

  Reno, United States of America

  February 2014 - Present

  Senior 3D artist leading 3D development on multiple licensed (TV,Film,etc) themed games simultaneously. I also develop pipeline tools for different disciplines as well as the 3D team.

• 3D Generalist / Compositor at Inhance Digital

  Los Angeles, United States of America

  November 2013 - February 2014

  Modeling, texturing/shading, lighting, animation, render and composite on a variety of corporate projects.

• 3D Generalist at Dilated Pixels

  Hollywood, United States of America

  September 2013 - September 2013

  Compositing and green screen removal on a commercial.

• 3D Generalist at Dilated Pixels

  Hollywood, United States of America

  September 2011 - June 2013

  Alligator Alley (Ragin' Cajun Redneck Gators):
  
  Lighting and Render pass breakout and management. Also created several in house tools for automatically setting up elaborate comps and automatic render pass breakout tools.

  Future Unlimited - Haunted Love:
  
  Matte painting and digital removal of Mia Goth's left arm.

  The Crash Reel:
  
  Various 2D Tracking and compositing of lower thirds

  Wii U - Scribblenauts Unlimited Launch Trailer:
  
  Compositing, matte painting, painting out tracking markers and roto

  Heebie Jeebies:
  
  Animated the creature in a handful of shots, completed tracking, lighting, breaking out, rendering, and precompositing for almost the entire movie.

  Flying Monkies:
  
  Created pipeline tools for shot setup, breakout and render, as well as precompositing shots. Also responsible for tracking roughly half of the movie and lighting several shots.

  Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning:
  
  Stereo compositing of blood elements.

  Sparkle:
  
  Painting out a camera crane in the reflections of a moving car, blood color adjustments, and blood enhancement effects.

  American Horror House:
  
  Creation of 3D swarms of bugs, tongue extensions, and under the skin bugs (2D) as well as compositing.

  Chasing UFOs:
  
  Creation of 3D UFOs and compositing several shots.

  Dr.Weird:
  
  Created motion graphics

  Haunted High:
  
  Creation of 3D elements and compositing several shots

  CSI Las Vegas:
  
  Creation of 3D elements and compositing several shots

  Arachnoquake:
  
  Lighting and Breakout of close to 200 visual effects shots as well as compositing a handful of shots.

  Alien Tornado (aka Tornado Warning):
  
  Roto, painting out elements, creating 3D debris & digital doubles, and compositing final shots.

  Data Romance- Spark (Music Video):
  
  Compositing and electrical effects.

  Batman: Arkham City (Video Game Presentation):
  
  Created motion graphics and various compositing.

  Fringe (TV Show):
  
  Painting out of an actor/reconstructing a live action prop
  
  Created a 3D elevator shaft (modeling, texturing, lighting)
  
  Compositing in several shots
  
  2D tracking and paint out of tracking markers

  Billy Glimmer (Web Film):
  
  Compositing billboards on moving vehicles and buildings
  

• Owner / 3D Generalist at Shallowabyss

  Los Angeles, United States of America

  January 2009 - February 2014

  Eagleheart:
  
  Modeling, Texturing, Rigging, Lighting of CG car and trap.

  The Program (SSR-7) (Short Film):
  
  Modeling, Texturing, Rigging, Lighting, Rendering of drones and an arm blaster.

  Fix It In Post (Short Film):
  
  Texturing, Lighting, Rendering of a bomb.

  Vessel (Short Film):
  
  Lighting,Surfacing/Texturing,Breakout

  Jawbone (Web Commecial):
  
  CAD Model Cleanup, Lighting, Surfacing/Texturing

• 3D Generalist at Dilated Pixels

  Hollywood, United States of America

  February 2011 - May 2008

  Wrong Turn 4:
  
  Compositing blood and gore effects
  
  Painting out elements, props, etc to create clean plates

  Red Faction: Origins
  
  Compositing holograms and several CG shots
  
  Animation of space crafts
  
  Tracking/Screen replacements

  Hostel Part Three:
  
  Compositing blood and gore effects

  Experience 3D:
  
  Modeling, texturing, and dynamics on its stereoscopic title sequence.

  Created several pipeline tools for use in After Effects, Lightwave and Maya utilizing lscript, mel, python, and javascript

• Previs Artist at Persistence of Vision

  Culver City, United States of America

  February 2011 - May 2011

  I worked on various previs shots for Mr. Popper's Penguins (starring Jim Carrey) onsite at Fox's Studio Lot in Century City.

• Cinematic Artist at Inhance Digital

  Los Angeles, United States of America

  October 2010 - October 2010

  Cinematics artist on a corporate aeronautics informational video for Raytheon.

• 3D Generalist at Dilated Pixels

  Hollywood, United States of America

  May 2010 - September 2010

  Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011 Game Trailer:
  
  Lead environment artist
  
  Modeled and textured props
  
  Animated cameras
  
  Optimized textures and assets for best performance and quality
  
  Compositing on several shots

  Sharktopus (SyFy Channel Original Movie):
  
  Sharktopus animation in a large number of shots
  
  Tracking plates for use in CG and compositing
  
  Created CG blood elements and water splashes
  
  Generated render passes
  
  Compositing
  
  Created several scripts for speeding up the breakout workflow.

  Sniper 4 - Reloaded:
  
  Helicopter Texturing and Animation

  Lord of the Rings: War In The North Trailer:
  
  Simulated cloth for a character.
  
  Developed an EXR pipeline from Lightwave to After Effects
  
  Managed the environment layout and assets for the entire spot
  
  Wrote several scripts to increase efficiency in Lightwave for scene management and breakout
  
  Trouble shot problems in Maya, Lightwave, and in other various tools and plugins
  
  Converted assets and animation between Maya and Lightwave
  
  Modeled and textured several assets
  
  Lighting in several shots
  
  Broke out shots for compositing

• 3D Generalist at At The Post

  Venice, United States of America

  April 2010 - April 2010

  Cleaning up imported models, texturing, rigging, and animating assets for a manufacturing company's corporate training videos.

• 3D Generalist at Rhythm & Hues (the boX)

  Los Angeles, United States of America

  September 2008 - April 2009

  Video Game Cinematics for The Saboteur:
  
  Corrected and created textures on characters, props, and environments.
  
  Lit (Sasquatch) hair on several characters.
  
  Modeled miscellaneous props, a car, and an environment to match reference.
  
  Cleaned up geometry and upresed geometry for characters, props, and environments.
  
  Made several scripts for making our pipeline more efficient.
  
  Responsible for correcting textures on characters.
  
  Textured several vehicles.
  
  Animated a plane.

• 3D Generalist at Screaming Death Monkey

  Venice, United States of America

  April 2010 - April 2010

  Building assets for a corporate video

• Previs Artist at Persistence of Vision

  Los Angeles, United States of America

  March 2010 - April 2010

  Previs Artist on a film before it was cancelled.

• 3D Generalist at Origami Digital

  Los Angeles, United States of America

  April 2009 - October 2009

  Modeling, texturing, lighting, set extensions, and scene breakout for Bunraku.
  
  Created a tool for breaking out render passes.
  
  Creating slap or temporary composites to show director for feedback.
  
  Worked on over 100 shots for the film.

• Remote Freelance Artist at AC Coin & Slot

  Los Angeles, United States of America

  October 2009 - October 2009

  Created several character rigs for a slot machine game.

• 3D Generalist at Radical3D

  Venice, United States of America

  October 2007 - April 2008

  Monster and Heroes - Animation and compositing
  
  Animal Armageddon - Dinosaur (Biped and Quadraped) rigging
  
  Battle 360 - Character and hardware modeling, rigging, animation, texturing

• 3D Generalist at Screaming Death Monkey

  Venice, United States of America

  October 2007 - November 2007

  Worked on a cover for Popular Mechanics (January 2008 Issue). Modeled and textured several aspects of the hovercraft-plane.

  Modeled and rigged a Crab made out of a cheese ball for the ABC show Pushing Daisies (Corpsicle Episode).

  Worked on several CG bull head replacement shots for a music video titled "Conquest" by The White Stripes.

• Remote Freelance 3D Generalist at Digital Elixir

  Los Angeles, United States of America

  June 2007 - July 2007

  I was contracted to do several models and animations for Digital Elixir Studios.