CV
Professional Experience
I have extensive experience and a strong knowledge base using Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and spine.
I have a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts, specialising in Illustration with over 20 years commercial experience starting in NYC.
My objective is to gain employment, locally in a successful company where I can contribute by bringing together my skills and expertise in animation and Illustration.”
Key Skills
Illustration, Animation, Concept Design and Motion Graphics.
Excellent traditional and digital illustration techniques (ranging from Photo-realistic through to cartoon styles).
Excellent Photoshop and After Effects skills, and good eye for composition and an understanding of lighting, mood and colour.
Strong experience in photo retouching and photo realism
Concept and character design for children’s books,toys and game boards, online games .
August 2017
IWM Agency
Senior Graphic Artist
Responsibilities
Design and develop on-screen graphics and illustrations for game platforms.
From Photo-realistic to cartoon style.
Bring game concepts to life through sketches and prototype art and animations.
Ensured games kept a constant frame rate, all resources fit into the RAM / ROM limitations and all elements can be implemented accordingly with the system and platform limitations.
On Site design team meetings with clients.
Achievements
Created successful images and art set in a style that was suitable for the games in a minimum of phases, and within a pre-determined time frame.
The further development of my skills as a designer illustrator and animator.
Producing high quality online game art including illustrations in both realistic and cartoon styles, from concept to finished art.
May 2012 – Aug 2017
Ainsworth Game and Technology
Senior Graphic Artist
Responsibilities
I was responsible for end-to-end slot game design from initial sketch concept to final machine artwork.
Achievements
Created successful images and art set in a style that was suitable for the games in a minimum of phases, and within a pre-determined time frame.
The further development of my skills designer illustrator and animator.
Every year I have received excellent performance reviews for my work.
Producing high quality game art including illustrations in both realistic and cartoon styles, from concept to finished art.
Jun 2004 – Aug 2011
WMS Gaming.
Graphic Artist
My responsibilities and achievements in WMS Gaming were similar to those with Ainsworth and qualified me for the position with IWM.
1998 - 2005
Earlier employment
Fox Studios NYC
Disney Channel NYC
Cartoon network NYC
Oxygen Channel NYC
Sterling Digital NYC
Dana Michele Group NYC
I worked for a range of Graphics companies while living in New York gaining important skills and a strong knowledge base in graphic arts and animation. My responsibilities involved, the following:
Storyboards for television advertisements.
In charge of colour and lighting for the animation backgrounds.
To colour backgrounds and characters using Photoshop, for Courage the coward dog TV series animation.
Retouching and designing elements for women’s television show called Pure Oxygen.
Coloured digital backgrounds for the Ninja Turtles cartoon animation showing on the Fox Channel
Produce both highly finished concept art and quick conceptual roughs for toys, dolls and children’s books illustrations.
Produce Segment openers, lower thirds.
Colorizing Props and Characters for a show called “Circus berzerkus”
Develop broadcast design for television shows.
Design of bumpers and interstitials, lower thirds, segment openers and promos.
Creating presentations for medical research including animating orthopaedic surgical techniques photographing and videotaping surgical procedures production of slides, illustrations, retouching images and edit the movie using avid.
Worked with Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator and Avid.
Photographing and videotaping surgical procedures in the operating room and editing the material in post-production.
Communicating with clients and following processes from concept and design through to finished product.