Experience Lead Hair/Fur Artist, The Barnyard - Omation
May 2005 - Present
Responsible for:
  • Hair and Fur on fully furred characters and partially furred or human characters
  • Dynamic hair, clothing, jewelry, etc with Syflex, Shave, and in-house dynamics system
  • Scripts and Scripted Ops to streamline hair creation, syflex dynamics, etc
  • Scripts and prototyping to aid in layout and management of a custom system for foliage
  • General TD work
  • Sequence specific 3D clouds creation / continuity
  • Shot finalling
Also familiar with:
  • Poly, sub-D, and NURBS modeling and UV layout
  • Seamless, multiple-channel, or single sheet texture painting
  • Hypershade / Rendertree shader creation
Education Class of 2005 Savannah College of Art and Design
  • B.F.A. in Computer Art
  • 4.0 GPA

2000-2001 University of Cincinnati
  • Student of Digital Design
  • Dean's List
Software
Accomplished:
  • XSI
  • Maya
  • ZBrush
  • Photoshop
Experienced:
  • Max
  • Digital Fusion
  • After Effects
  • Premiere
  • PRman, RIB, RSL
  • Python,Jscript,MEL
Other Skills Digital matte painting, Creature/Character concepts
Interests Games, SCUBA diving, Star Trek