Steven Cooper

Past

• Student Tutor at EDMC
• Freelance Graphic Designer at Club Cyanide Las Vegas
• Freelance Graphic Designer at RynoScapes Landscaping

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Education

• Art Institute of California-Orange County

Recommended

3 people have recommended Steven

Connections

19 connections

Industry

Animation

Websites

• My Website

Steven Cooper’s Summary

I'm currently a student at the Art Institute of Orange County. I have some experience with freelance graphic design but overall I'm looking to get into an Entry Level position involving 3D Layout or Materials and Lighting.

Steven Cooper’s Specialties:

Procedural Materials, Complex Node hierarchies, Direct & Photon based lighting, Compositing using After Effects & Combustion, experience with Render Layers and non-destructive editing.

Steven Cooper’s Experience

• Student Tutor

  EDMC

  (Privately Held; EDMC; Education Management industry)

  July 2007 — June 2009 (2 years )

  I tutor fellow students in Image Manipulation, Transitional Math, English, Color Theory, Hard Surface & Organic Modeling, Materials/Lighting, Visual Effects, Motion Graphics and Building Websites.

• Freelance Graphic Designer

  Club Cyanide Las Vegas

  (Entertainment industry)

  December 2008 — January 2009 (2 months)

  I did a few fliers and advertisements for a special event the club did as well as web banners for one of the bands that played.
  
  Website: http://www.myspace.com/clubcyanidelasvegas

• Freelance Graphic Designer

  RynoScapes Landscaping

  (Construction industry)

  March 2005 — April 2005 (2 months)

  I did flier and business card designs for a small, local landscaping company.

Steven Cooper’s Education

• Art Institute of California-Orange County

  Bachelors of Science , Media Arts & Animation , 2005 — 2009

  Trash Me (2009): Co-Supervised the 3D short called Trash Me for the Spring '09 Production Team.
  
  Space Duel (2009): Contributed to the Spring '09 Studio Production project 'Space Duel' (Rigging).
  
  YOFSD (2008): Worked on the 2D Short 'Ye Old Fantasy Speed Dating' for the Winter '08 2D Studio Team.
  
  4 years study of French; I speak conversational French.
  
  Published in a local poetry collection.

  Activities and Societies:

  Animation and Film club from 2006 to 2009.
  
  President of Animation and Film Club 2007 to 2009.

Additional Information

Steven Cooper’s Websites:

• My Website

Steven Cooper’s Interests:

VFX, Compositing, Materials, Lighting, Texturing, Rigging, Layout, Autodesk Maya, Tori Amos, Playing Piano.

Steven Cooper’s Groups:

•    The Art Institute Alumni

Steven Cooper’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• expertise requests
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