Freelance Designer / Animator
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Owner at Inverted Chaos
- Past
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- Freelance Designer / Animator at Exopolis
- Graphic Designer at Global Gaming League
- Freelance Designer / Animator at Championship Gaming Series
- Designer / Animator at G4 New Media
- Animator at G4tv - Attack of the Show
- Sr. Designer at G4 Interactive Services
- Production Coordinator at Pandemic Studios
- Education
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- Santa Monica College
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Luis Hurtado’s Summary
Designer / Animator with years of experience in User-Experience / Information Architecture, Broadcast Motion Graphics & Video Game Development.
Began my career in Video Game Development, designing Interface Graphics, 2D Textures & 3D Modeling.
Moved on to work in Web-Design, designed the corporate websites for G4tv amongst other projects.
Switched to Broadcast Design & TV Production, while working on G4tv's flagship show, "Attack of the Show."
Moved on to G4tv's New Media Design. Responsible for art-directing all of G4's "New Media" properties. Ranging from web design to show graphics packages for the in-house G4tv web-video content.
Currently a freelance motion graphics animator for TV & New Media and user-experience designer for large, database / content-driven websites.
Luis Hurtado’s Specialties:
Interaction Design, Broadcast Motion Graphics & Animation, 2D Flash Character Animation, 3D Studio Max, After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop
Luis Hurtado’s Experience
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Owner
Inverted Chaos
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Design industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Currently a freelance designer / animator, with experience in video game development, user-interaction / information architecture design, motion graphics, new media & TV production.
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Freelance Designer / Animator
Exopolis
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
2009 — 2009 (less than a year)
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Graphic Designer
Global Gaming League
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year)
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Freelance Designer / Animator
Championship Gaming Series
(Online Media industry)
2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
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Designer / Animator
G4 New Media
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CMCSA; Online Media industry)
October 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Art-Direct & maintain visual brand language across all new-media platforms
Collaborate with President & SVP to pioneer new delivery methods of content
Manage & delegate projects to a team of designers -
Animator
G4tv - Attack of the Show
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
January 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 10 months)
Art-directed & animated daily segment header animations & OTS graphics
Collaborated alongside producers to develop graphical elements for
comedy sketches, news packages, and in-studio segments
Managed multiple projects & deadlines on a daily, live variety show -
Sr. Designer
G4 Interactive Services
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; CMCSA; Online Media industry)
February 2002 — December 2003 (1 year 11 months)
Art-directed & produced database-driven content HTML sitess
Developed and managed the editing & encoding production workflow for
G4’s web videos
Produced “mini-sites” for marketing & sales -
Production Coordinator
Pandemic Studios
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)
February 2000 — September 2000 (8 months)
Art-directed & produced company website
Created 3D models & textures for in-game art assets
Assisted the president day-to-day
Luis Hurtado’s Education
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Santa Monica College
Art, Animation 2000 — 2002
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Luis Hurtado’s Interests:
Animation Art Art History Business Books Business Life Career Cartooning Cycling Direction & Production Drawing Graphic Design Humor Hiking Internet Investing Logic Movies Music Networking Philosophy Piano Photography Programming Politics Theology Time Management Web Development Web Graphics Web Multimedia Yoga
Luis Hurtado’s Groups:
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Broadcast Design & Motion Graphics
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