Education____________________________________________________________________
Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL B.F.A Spring 2011 Majors: Game Art and Design, Class of 2011 Awarded Best of Ringling- 2009- Snake Design
Game Thesis: A one-minute game trailer emphasizing environmental storytelling, lighting, and modeling in Unreal Development Kit
Software and Personal Skill_______________________________________________________
Comfortable in: Photoshop, Zbrush, Corel Painter, Maya, Autodesk Mudbox, Unreal Development Kit, xNormal, Crazy Bump , Adobe Premiere Pro, Microsoft words/PowerPoint/excel, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Soundbooth. Martial Art: Aikido
Educational Experience_________________________________________________________
As part of an upper level course, worked under deadlines with teams to develop a room of a world with a team
- Pitched ideas, with visuals, to class; researched level layout, lighting, and the world to create a room in game
- Utilized Maya to build the model in low poly; used xNormals to create the Normals and used Photoshop to create diffuse textures to put on the low poly model in UDK.
- Executed production, pitch, and made it into a short clip of the world
- Learn how to equally divide the task to get the animatic
Visual Game Designer, Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, Fl, 2009-2010
As part of an upper level course, created a short one-minute game trailer animatic for preproduction idea for thesis
- Designed characters, props, environment; researched character/prop/environment design and lighting and made it into 3D
- Developed storyboards; edited boards into animatic with sound
Concept Art Internship Experience________________________________________________
Maven Studios, June 2011 to present
- Work in a group to bring to life “Chakan”
- Drew Preliminary sketches and full concept art and exceeded beyond the requested idea.
- Modeled 3D character from a 2D designs
Teamwork Experience
As part of a team, we put together different ideas to create a unique game world
- Pitched new ideas of mechanics and designed character, props, environment to cohesively make the world seem like it was made by one artist
Job Experience________________________________________________________________
Sales associate, Forever 21, Northbrook, IL 2010
- Coordinate date, assist time, setup and organized the schedule
- Help coordinate and advise different fashion for consumers as well as selling products