albert@emsh.calarts.edu 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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1996 -	WRITER / DIRECTOR / ANIMATOR of the Animation Short 'SEEKER'.
1997 -	WEB PAGE DESIGNER   |  Noble Technologies  |  Glendale, CA  |
1996 - 97	COMPUTER ARTIST - Composites, 3D & 2D Animation, Effects  |  Electric Filmworks  |  Glendale, CA
1996 -	SGI / NT / MAC ADMINISTRATOR and TEACHING ASSISTANT  |  CalArts SGI Computer Lab
1994 - 96	DESIGNS and ART DIRECTIONS  |  CalArts Financial Aid Office  |  Valencia, CA
1993 - 94	COMPUTER ANIMATOR  |  HAYK Video Productions  |  Verdugo City, CA
1992 -	FREELANCE ARTIST  |  Design of any sort, Murals, oil paintings, and etc.
1991 - 93	COMPUTER OPERATOR  |  AR-AM Immigration Services  |  Glendale, CA

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SELECTED SPECIAL SKILLS

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FINE ARTS Figure drawing, Oil Painting, Watercolor, Sculpting, Still life, Airbrush, Murals, Monoprinting, Composition and Colors.  COMPUTER ANIMATION Modeling / Enveloping / Animating / Texure Mapping / Lighting / Editing TRADITIONAL ANIMATION Hand drawn / Clay / Cut-outs / Cel / Slit-scan  GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION Posters, Web Pages, Logos, Murals, T-shirt  INTERNET AND PROGRAMMING HTML, Java, FTP, Fetch, Pascal, UNIX shell scripting  TECHNICAL SKILLS   Computer Hardware VIDEO Recorders and Cameras - Betacam, 3/4, Hi8, LD, SVHS Perception Video Recorder (PVR) AUDIO  Recorder Deck - PCM800, ADAT, DAT, Nagra IV AudioBoards - Delta SR, SoundCraft Series and etc. Patch Bays Switcher SR-7 VAS IV Film Cameras - Arriflex, Bolex Oxberry Flatbeds

COMPUTER SKILLS   PLATFORMS SGI - 4 yrs. - currently using SGI Indigo2 High IMPACT 10000 workstations, Onyx Infinite Reality workstations, SGI Predator 8 CPU render server PC - 8 yrs. - currently using Intergraph TD 225 and Dual Pentium Pro 200 Mac - 4 yrs. - currently using Apple PowerPC 8100/100, Apple PowerPC 8100/100AV Amiga - 2yrs. - Commodore VideoToaster 4000 w/Lightwave 3D OPERATING SYSTEM UNIX (cshell, tshell) Windows NT ver 4.0-3.1, 95-3.11 MS-DOS MacBase systems SELECTED SOFTWARE SOFTIMAGE:    3D Extreme ver. 3.71  |   Eddie ver.3.2 ALIAS|WAVEFRONT:   Composer ver.4.5  |  Power Animator ver. 8.1  (little)  |  Studio Paint 3D ver. 3.2 (little) PIXAR RenderMan ver. 3.6 NEWTEK Lightwave 3D ver. 5.0 3D Studio ver 4.0 StrataPro ver 2.0 Fractal Design Painter ADOBE:   AfterEffects  |  Photoshop 4.0 w/KPT  |  Premiere  |  Illustrator  |  Pagemaker ver 6.0 COREL Draw 5 PhotoMorph2 AUTODESK Animator Equilibrium De-Babelizer Director 5 MICROSOFT:   Publisher  |  FrontPage 98  |  Word  |  Excel SoundForge

 

3 times recognized as one of the top students at USC Art Contests

National Finalist in a fine arts contest

'5' on Art Advanced Placement (AP) Test

Honors and Awards in Expressive Feeling Through Art Contest (Mental Health Association in LA County)

Twice a 2nd place winner in Glendale Art Association Contests with prizes

Jansen Fund/Swain's Graphics Gift Certificate (each high school gets one annually)

Honors in Kaleidoscope contests

Plaques and Awards for outstanding achievements from the School

Awards in CAG contest

'High Honors' Award in Geometry Golden Exam

'Honors' Award in Algebra Golden Exam

'Honor Certificate for 6 semesters of Superior Achievement' Award

Medallion for being in the Honor Role