Develop and lead a creative team to support the production of animation for corporate, advertising and entertainment.  The main responsibilities include character development and art direction. In addition to a supervisory role, I often perform  tasks including  modeling, rigging,  texturing, animation and lighting.

Provide art direction and modeling in support of the development of interactive, real-time, 3D applications for educational and serous games

Art direction and/or design of audio-visual, web based and print material for corporate and institutional communication. Provide design support for graphical user interfaces of both web based and stand alone applications – particularly in the aerospace and medical fields.

Software used: Maya,  zBrush, Rhino 2.0 , After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator InDesign, Lightwave , 3D Studio Max, Flash, Digital Fusion 4.0, Virtools, Unity

Responsible for concept development, storyboards and production of 2D and 3D animated sequences, 2D digital art for video graphics, Web graphics support, multimedia packages for kiosks and for CD distribution.

Maintain current and efficient hardware/software/networking on UNIX,/Windows NT environment. Develop custom routines to complement off-the-shelf animation software.

Provide support in the development of graphics for training and computer GUIs.

Hardware and software used: Indigo2, Indigo, Onyx, SGI 4D/80, 4D/25 – Pentium II & III – DPS Perception, Sony D2, – A/W Maya 2.5, Lightwave 3D, Autodesk 3D Studio, Rhino, Canoma, Brice – Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw – Flash 4, After Effects, Digital Fusion, Premiere – UNIX csh , GNU C, Borland C++, IRIX GL, Perl - Mathcad

Responsible for  concept development, storyboards and production of 2D and 3D animated sequences. Generate 2D digital art for video graphics. Maintain contacts with producers/clients. Coordinate the work of one animator and two programmers. Maintain close relationship with software vendors and submit software evaluation and purchase requests.

Developed software to manage coarse distributed processing and to provide additional functionality to the current off the shelf animation packages. Provided beta testing for the development of Wavefront Dynamation software. Knowledgeable of UNIX and DOS/Windows  - Pascal, C/C++, awk programming languages.

Hardware and software used: SGI 4D/80, 4D/25, Indigo - Intel 486 desktops - Abekas A62, Sony D2, VLAN - Wavefront Advanced Visualizer, Composer, Paint, Dynamation - Autodesk 3D Studio - Corel Draw - ImageIn - Mathcad - Asymetrix Multimedia Toolbook - Borland C++ - IRIX GL  - Mathcad

Initially responsible for the design of slide presentations for internal clients. Later moved to providing video graphics and animation services exclusively.

Responsible for the use of two 2D animation  workstations and recording equipment. Training of personnel on such equipment.

Provide art direction for  production and  postproduction at corporate and commercial facilities.

Developed software to generate a 3D animated sequence using a 2D paint package for rendering.

Hardware and software used: DEC microPDP 11, micro VAX - Sony 2500, Sony 5850 - Genigraphics - CGL Images II - Quantel Paint Box - Alias - Symbolics

Provide isometric drawings for maintenance manuals from engineering blueprints. Worked on Boeing 7xx series, McDonnell Douglas DC 9 and 10, MD 80 and KC 10.

Portland Blazers – Portland, OR

Cronkite Ward – Washington, DC

Enterprise Advisory  Services, Inc – Houston, TX

Digital Equipment Corporation - Maynard, MA

Volt - Van Nuys, CA

Gina's Pizza - Corona del Mar, CA

Unique Homes - Corona del Mar, CA

Bergamo TV (Local television station), Bergamo Italy

L' Eco di Bergamo (Daily newspaper)

Lombardini Supermarkets - Bergamo, Italy

Cineforum magazine - Bergamo, Italy

Lab80 film - Bergamo, Italy

Bergamo Film Meeting - Bergamo, Italy