FILM & TELEVISION

Current Employer: PDI / DreamWorks Animation May 2005 - September 2010
Megamind - Matte Painter
Shrek Goes Fourth - Matte Painter
Merry Madagascar - Production Illustrator
Monsters vs. Aliens - Matte Painter
Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa - Matte Painter
Shrek the Halls - Matte Painter
Shrek, the Third - Matte Painter
Over the Hedge - Matte Painter
The Madagascar Penguins in: A Christmas Caper - Matte Painter

Pixar Animation Studios Summer 2004
Ratatouille - Lighting TD Intern

Global Friends Foundation 2008 - Present
I am an Art Director for a series of children's books soon to be published.

HONORS

Featured in Issue 56 of Advanced Photoshop in the feature article on Matte Painting
Featured Artist in ImagineFX - March Issue 2009
Feature Interview in 2D Artist Magazine - April 2006
One of my 2D Environments, Josun City, was featured in Ballistic Publishing's Expose 4.
Winner of an Excellence Award in the Environment 2D section of Expose 3.
1st Runner up in the Grand Space Opera Contest on CGNetworks. Click here for the Feature.
Chosen by Alp Altiner to be featured in d'artiste Matte Painting.
CGChoice Award for my Grand Space Opera Submission on CGNetworks.
CGChoice Award for my Dubrovnik Matte Painting on CGNetworks.

EDUCATION

Ringling School of Art and Design BFA in Computer Animation 2001-2005
Chosen to be Featured in the Annual Faculty Juried Showcase of the Best of Ringling 2001-2005

Hong Kong International School High school 1997 - 2000
Have traveled to more than 25 different countries

SKILLS

5+ years in animated feature production
I thrive on complex challenges and am able to quickly adapt to a production's unique style
A keen eye and great sense of animated and photoreal lighting / detail / believability needed to
create a final image for film and to choose what is best for the story or scene
A team player - Willing to contribute / listen / take / provide feedback
Master of Adobe's Photoshop
Can Model / Texture / Rig / Light / Animate with Maya
Large understanding of compositing programs, both proprietary and commercial
I'm an avid photographer, with a personal reference library in the tens of thousands of photographs
For fun I love to play video games like Halo, go out and shoot FITA style archery, snowboard, and write music

You could definitely call me a passionate artist. I really have fun with my work. I love creating beautiful images, but I also appreciate other areas of art such as photography, dance, and music. One day I thought I might be a concert pianist, after playing as a soloist with the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra when I was 13 years old. I might venture down that road again someday, but for now, I am enjoying the deep language of film and am so very happy to help visualize and bring those amazing stories, environments, and characters to life.