Skilled 2D concept artist and digital painter. Ability to design using diverse artisitic styles. Knowlegable in maquette building and sculpting. Possess a background in graphic design. Believer of the twelve steps of animation. Fluent in Spanish and English.

Skilled 2D sketch artist and painter.

Also skilled in:
- Maya
- Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- After Effects
- Premiere
- Flash

-Miami International University of Art and Design
Miami, Florida
Completion of MFA in Computer Animation12/18/2005

- Full Sail Real World Education
Winter Park, Florida
AA in Computer Animation 02/07/2003

- School of Visual Communication PRODISEÑO
Caracas, Venezuela
BFA in Graphic Design 10/1996 to 08/2001
RELEVANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

- MFA Thesis animated short “Think Outside the Box.” A year-long solo project which covered everything from original story, concept designs, modeling, rigging, texturing, animation, and compositing.
- Freelance cartoonist for Sony Pictures Television International - Animax Channel launch party. Drew anime charicatures averaging 10 to 12 drawings an hour.
- Designed brochure for a company called "Corporacion Reset".
- Redesigned logo for Drinker's Bar along with promotional banners and magazine publications.
- Designed the interface and graphics aspects of the FJPUPEL's webpage (Fondo de Jubilaciones y Prestaciones de la UPEL).
-Worked as a freelance flash animator for a digital publicity company called Dynasign. Designed 10 sec promotional animations for a digital wide-screens.
- Designed and published personal website.
- Worked as a freelance artist painting a mural in a diving gear store called Epsilon.
- Winner of a contest for creating a logo for a national bank called Banco del Pueblo Soberano.
- Designed a web page for an administrative consultant company called
Hay Group Andino.

ADDITIONAL INFO.

- Maya: Two years modeling, texturing, lighting, animating, Mel Scripting and compositing in Maya Unlimited.
- "Everything is Designed" (Senior Project for Graphic Design Class): Created a four minute video segment
composited in After Effects 5.0 demonstrating that everything has a reason of being the way that it is.
Everything was done from scratch and put together in four months. Responsibilities included producing content
and designing visual communication strategies so that it could be interpreted by the masses.
- Analytic Drawing Instructor: assisting a Analytic Drawing Course Director for one
semester at PRODISEÑO. Responsible for helping students understand drawing concepts.
- Object Perspective Intern: Interned for the drawing class at Full Sail. My duties were to
prepare class, help students, archive artworks and ran open lab days.

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