
Texturing & Lighting Artist at Kiz Toys
Charleston, South Carolina Area

Texturing & Lighting Artist at Kiz Toys
Charleston, South Carolina Area
I am a graduate from Savannah College of Art and Design and am currently freelancing in animation field. I received my degree in computer animation and am very excited to be in the industry and to expand my skill set. I will be working on new content and updating my reel while I continue complete work.
*Lighting and rendering using MentalRay for Maya, GI, and Final Gather.
*Hard surface prop modeling.
*Solid Maya Generalist skills including Modeling, Texturing, Lighting/Shading, Animating and Rendering.
SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE
*Adobe AfterEffects
*Adobe Photoshop
*Adobe Illustrator
*Maya Versions 7.0 -2008
*Shake
*Hammer
*Linux
*Windows 3.1 - Vista
*Mac OSX
(Privately Held; Consumer Goods industry)
April 2009 — Present (8 months)
• Responsible for hand painting environment assets including buildings, props and terrain by
using color, specular, normal and transparency maps.
• Textured and lit for prerendered cinematic.
• Assisted in organizing, motivating and unifying the texturing and lighting department.
(Sole Proprietorship; Design industry)
April 2008 — October 2008 (7 months)
*Helped Develop CG workflow.
*Responsible for many aspects of CG pieces including; Cinematography, Modeling, Texturing/Shading, Lighting, Rendering
*Helped develop and maintain project schedules.
*Helped Troubleshoot software and rendering issues.
BFA , Animation , 2004 — 2007
Video Games, Mountain Biking, Film, Computers