Shane Wheeler

Current

Freelance Digital Artist at Shane Wheeler Productions

Past

GDA Instructor at High-Tech institute
Production Artist at Pioneer Ram
Production artist (internship) at Full Sail Real World Education

Graphic/sign designer at Jones Electric Signs
Editor 1 at Anteon
Graphic Design/Type Setter at Dove Publishing
Graphic Design/Type Setter at Slidell Sentry-News

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Education

Full Sail Real World Education
Delta (Formerly Louisiana Art Institute)
Southeastern Louisiana University

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Industry

Animation

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Shane Wheeler’s Summary

My name is Shane Wheeler and I am located near Orlando, Florida. I have been professionally involved in graphics for 10 years designing ads; t-shirt designs, digitizing text books, sign design, catalogs, and color separations for the silk screen process. My graphics education started at Southeastern Louisiana University in 1993 and I received my associate’s degree at Louisiana Art Institute in 1998. In 2003, I received a computer animation degree at FullSail where I learned Cg modeling, texturing, and other aspects of computer animation. I am currently looking for a more fulfilling and creative a position.

Shane Wheeler’s Specialties:

CG animation/3d modeling/UV mapping/texturing - MAYA/3dsMax

Compositing/Editing - After Effects

Graphic design/Photo restoration/Retouch/Enhancement/Digital painting - Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, Illustrator, Quark XPress, InDesign and flatbed scanner (both PC and Mac)

Web page design - Hotmetal, Go Live, Dreamweaver and Omnipage Pro

Traditional art skills - Illustration, Sculpting, Graphic design, comic book/ciematic story boarding, using a varity of mediums

Shane Wheeler’s Experience

Freelance Digital Artist

Shane Wheeler Productions

(Graphic Design industry)

January 1997 — Present (13 years )

Freelance Digital Artist:
3d modeling, Textuering, Graphic Design, Layout, Hud Graphics, Poster Design, Logo Design
GDA Instructor

High-Tech institute

(Higher Education industry)

March 2008 — March 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Position: Graphic Design Instructor  Duties: Instructing graphic design techniques and the use of current design software.
(Software includes: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Flash, 3dsMax, Premier Pro, After Effects, Encore,
and Dreamweaver.
Production Artist

Pioneer Ram

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Printing industry)

October 2004 — December 2007 (3 years 3 months)

Position: Color Seperator/Graphic Designer
Duties: Deisgn concepts. make digital and physical mockups, seperate colors in vector/raster images for film output. Screens are later used to apply the appropriate inks(i.e. ceramic, glass, epoxy, uv) to create decals for Suvineer glassware. Clients include:Disney, Universal Studios, Hard Rock Cafe, Harley Davidson, Planet Hollywood, museums, hotels and resorts.
Production artist (internship)

Full Sail Real World Education

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

May 2003 — July 2003 (3 months)

Position: Modeler/Texture, Concept Artist, Graphic Designer
Duties: Design, build and texture character/environment game models. Design logos for game titles and create art and layout for posters and manuals.
Graphic/sign designer

Jones Electric Signs

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

July 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 5 months)

Position: Graphic Design/Sign Designer
Duties: Design logos, rebuild raster logos as vectors, and design electric and vinyl signs.
Editor 1

Anteon

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ANT; Defense & Space industry)

September 1998 — June 2000 (1 year 10 months)

Duties: Digitize books and other government documents
Graphic Design/Type Setter

Dove Publishing

(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

February 1998 — July 1998 (6 months)

Duties: Design/build ads and layout maps.
Graphic Design/Type Setter

Slidell Sentry-News

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)

October 1997 — January 1998 (4 months)

Duties: Design/build ads and create art

Shane Wheeler’s Education

Full Sail Real World Education

Associates , Computer animation , 2001 — 2003
Delta (Formerly Louisiana Art Institute)

Associates , Graphic Design , 1997 — 1998
Southeastern Louisiana University

Visual Communications 1993 — 1996

Additional Information

Shane Wheeler’s Websites:

Shane Wheeler’s Interests:

Animation (2D/3D), Movies, Creating stories. Creating characters, Script(screenplay) writing, 3D modeling, Games, Sci-fi, Action, Reality-based, Comics, Drawing, Computer coloring, Graphic design, Martial arts, Pop culture, 70s music, 80s music, Old movies and TV, Illustration