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Above you will find a link to my Demo reels.
September 2008
My most recent work as a Modeller is now online.The new Ford Fiesta website has been launched and you can visit it here at this link. I've been working on this marvellous project with Lead Artist Thorsten Kuttig at Theory 7 in Maidstone, UK .
July 2008 I`been away for a year working in Singapore at Intense animation Also Ive been doing a lot of CG Adverts, Product visualization, and Architectural visualization.
Computer Skills:
Autodesk Maya. ZBrush. Camtasia Studio. MotionBuilder. 3dsMax Z-Brush. .Adobe PhotoShop Adobe Illustrator . Adobe After Effects . Macromedia Flash .Macromedia Dreamweaver . Macromedia Director . Bryce
HTML and Web development.
Most recent experience
Modeller in-house at www.Theory7.com
Responsible for creating and modelling photorealistic buildings.
3D Generalist and Lecturer.
3D Generalist: Modelling, Animation, Texturing with the use of Mayas Paint effects, Rendering using Mental Ray, Lighting and photography on various production projects.
Other tasks include research and development into new techniques and industries, creating E-learning material with the use of Camtasia studio 5, student management and course grading, course liaison, promotional work . Conducted a series of workshops on Storytelling and Pre-production for 3D Animators
Head Lecturer for the Full Time Diploma in Computer Animation.
Topics include: Visual design, story development, character design and development, production design, Animation theory, 2d Animatics, colour theory, matte painting, video editing, motion graphics, compositing. 3D theory, 3d modelling (all surface types), keyframe and procedural animation, lighting, texturing, rendering, rigging, expressions and Mel-scripting.
Created curriculum for modelling and texturing for next generation game development. The main softwares are Pixologics Zbrush 3.1, Autodesks Maya 2008, and Adobe Photoshop CS3.
Instructed the part time course in Character Animation.
Including Character Rigging, modelling and animation. Pre-Production and production of 3d short films.
Recently Employed as
Pre-production Supervisor of the 3D short film “The Magical Glade” Directed by Jennifer Whitmore and produced by Thorsten Kuttig, www.e-sence.de .
Lecturer of Computer Animation at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt. Germany. Campus Dieburg. http://www.media.h-da.de
Created curriculum and lectured in: Character SetUp, Preproduction of a 3d Short Film, Facial modelling, rigging and animation. 3D texturing in 3D Max, and Maya.
All of the computer generated images displayed on the website are created using software such as :Maya, Photoshop, and Illustrator . My digital design skills have developed professionally as a Lecturer at Intense Animation Studio.
This website was placed online on the 15th of August 2006. I will be making updates on a regular basis.
Last Update 13.10.2008
Education:
Diplom Designer in Communication Design at the Fachhochschule Mainz(University of applied sciences)2000-2004
B.A. Fine Art in Printmaking at the Limerick institute of technology 1990-1994
N.C.E.A Certificate in Multimedia at St.Johns college Cork 1999-2000.