1241 Amherst Ave #2, Los Angeles, CA, 90025

310.987.7125 | jlongvfx@gmail.com

Professional Summary      

Versatile 3D Generalist with 9 years experience working on projects including film, game, broadcast, interactive web, and dvd cinematics. Skilled in character FX and technical animation. Thrive in problem solving, automating, and tackling creative challenges in tight deadlines.

Experience

Flat Earth Productions

  Piranha 3D (2010) | FX TD

·         Fluids, cloth, particles

·         technical animation, characterFX

04/2010 - 08/2010

Burbank, CA

CafeFX

  Alice in Wonderland (2010) | CharacterFX TD

·         Cloth/hair/characterFX, technical animation

  Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey | Cloth TD

·         Cloth, technical animation, rendering

10/2009 - 01/2010

Santa Maria, CA

Rooms Alive/ DMA Design Group

  RoomsAlive.com/En’Spirations | PipelineTD/Generalist

·         Pipeline setup, modeling, lighting, compositing

·         Image optimization, render automations

·         Bug tracking/project management, training

·         Database admin (MS SQL), data  I/O

01/2006 - 07/2011

Orlando, FL/Asheville,NC

nTh Degree Design and Visual FX

  Extreme Trains [History Channel] | Maya Generalist

·         Layout, camera/technical animation, modeling

             06/2008 - 7/2008

                         Orlando, FL

RavenFilm SRG

  iSpace [Singapore Science Center] | Maya Generalist

·         Match moving, modeling, texturing

Fall/2007

Santa Monica, CA (remote)

Ballistic Pixel Lab

  Max and Buddy [BearFacts Entertainment] | Maya generalist

·         Cloth, modeling/texturing, lighting

·         Layout, rendering, compositing

·         Sys admin, render wrangling

  Lords of Everquest [Sony Online Ent./Rapid Eye Ent.] | Cloth TD

·         Cloth, tech anim, mocap cleanup

  Digital Design Center | Database admin, Pipeline TD

·         mySQL database admin, product management

·         Sys admin, research and development

07/2004 - 12/2005

Lake Mary, FL

Full Sail University

   Lab Specialist

·         Assisted students on all aspects of computer

animation for their final projects

10/2003 - 7/2004

Winter Park, FL

Shiny Red Guitar Studios

  Natural [Music Video] – CG Generalist

·         Modeling, texturing, rotoscoping, compositing

09/2003

Orlando, FL

Visual Book Productions

   iLumina – CG Generalist

·         Cloth, paintFX, modeling/texturing

                  11/2001 - 2003

Orlando, FL

Software Skills (in order of proficiency – top to bottom)

Maya

Max

XSI

Syflex

Houdini

VRay

Mental Ray

Maxwell

Photoshop

After Effects Nuke

Shake

Premiere

Vegas

Deadline

Rush

RenderPal

Smedge

SQL

Education

Associates of Science in Computer Animation | 2001

Full Sail University | Winter Park, FL