Miguel A Santiago Jr.

Current

Shading Artist / Contributing Author (Freelance) at Ballistic Publishing
3D Artist at America's Army
Shader Writer at Personal Project / Shader Collection

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Past

Shading Artist (Freelance) at Thinking Man Studios
3D Artist (Freelance) at Sheperds Pie
3D Artist (Freelance) at Tribe Studios C.

Internship at Full Sail Real World Education

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Education

Full Sail Real World Education

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Miguel A Santiago Jr.’s Summary

Hi, my name is Miguel Angel Santiago Jr. I'd like to introduce myself as a strong minded person with a true passion for the arts. I spent my entire years of childhood drawing. I also spent most of my time playing and growing up with Nintendo 8-bit, being inspired by all the great 80's cartoons. One day, I found my true passion for computer animation. It started as an innocent curiosity and grew into an obsession. Now like most Artists out there, I spend most of my time studying to reach that ultimate goal of true mastery of my craft.

Miguel A Santiago Jr.’s Specialties:

Character Modeling, Uv Mapping, Paint / Procedural Texturing, Shading Networks, Maya API Shader Programming, and Mental Ray Shader Programming.

Miguel A Santiago Jr.’s Experience

Shading Artist / Contributing Author (Freelance)

Ballistic Publishing

(Entertainment industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Working as a creature shading artist on soon-to-be announced book.
3D Artist

America's Army

(Defense & Space industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

- Utilizing Epic Unreal Engine 3.0 and Autodesk Maya to build assets on America’s Army training applications.

- Modeling and texturing low to high poly props, and characters for various applications.

- Laying out UVs for all models created using a range of tools.

- Baking assorted maps incorporating normal mapping.

- Bringing the models into the Unreal Engine to examine for modeling errors and to develop shading materials using the Material Editor.

- Responsible for partial level design creation for specific large project.

- Recruiting and interviewing potential applicants.
Shader Writer

Personal Project / Shader Collection

(Animation industry)

September 2003 — Present (5 years 11 months)

- Researching and developing various material shading techniques including skin shading using the Autodesk Maya Api and mental ray Api C++ programming.

- Implementing material shaders not currently available in Autodesk Maya software renderer and mental ray renderer.

- Primary focus on DT3D skin shader to develop an improved skin shading system.

- Created 11 publicly available shaders for download at various sites including Highend3d, ShareCG, and Digiteck3D.
Shading Artist (Freelance)

Thinking Man Studios

(Animation industry)

November 2004 — November 2004 (1 month)

- Shading and texturing for character in proposed animated series.

- Creating and developing procedural skin texture/skin shader and leather shader using Autodesk Maya Hypershade to build shading networks.

- Experimenting with cartoon shading techniques to build cartoon shading network.
3D Artist (Freelance)

Sheperds Pie

(Animation industry)

November 2003 — December 2003 (2 months)

- Modeling interior and exterior props for CG sets.

- Performing character weight setup on the characters for deformation in animation.
3D Artist (Freelance)

Tribe Studios C.

(Animation industry)

July 2003 — July 2003 (1 month)

- Creating a 15-second promotional video. Duties including: modeling, UV mapping, texturing, animating, blend shapes and facial animation.
Internship

Full Sail Real World Education

(Entertainment industry)

March 2003 — May 2003 (3 months)

Internship duties, continuation of 3d learning and Improvement.