Resume

Matthew W. Francis

5 Jennifer Court
Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia
B4E2P9
(902) 223-7221
impendment@gmail.com

Objective:
To acquire full-time employment in the 3D Entertainment industry.

Employment History:

Centre for Arts and Technology, Halifax, NS April 2011-Present
-Lab Instructor
-Duties include monitoring and answer any question students might have about their assignment or programs.

Longtail Studios, Halifax, NS November-December 2010
-Character Animator/Compositor
-Duties included character animation and final composition of all final renders to be compiled for unannounced project.

Huminah Huminah Animation Studio, Dartmouth NS September-November 2010
-3D Animator
-Duties included 3d character animation for iphone and web based video games.

Bfreehomes, Halifax NS January –March 2010
-Modeler/Compositor
-Duties included modeling, lighting and rendering 3d houses from blueprints to be used in Bfreehomes marketing material.

Rogue Planet, Toronto ON April-June 2010
-Modeler/Compositor
-Duties included designing, modeling, animating and compositing an opening for documentary maker Glenn Forbes’ company Rogue Planet.

Copernicus Animation Studios, Halifax, NS June-August 2009
-Compositor
-Duties included compositing “Garth & Bev”, a 20x11 minute Flash series using Adobe After Effects and Adobe Flash.

Centre for Arts and Technology, Halifax, NS December 2009-April 2010
-Tutor
-Duties included tutoring students in Maya modeling, texturing, rigging, lighting and rendering using Mental Ray. Also helped students using Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, Flash and Premiere Pro.


Volunteer History:

Hatch Studios, Halifax, NS September 2009
-Modeler
-Duties included modeling, texturing, and lighting a 3d hospital environment using Autodesk Maya. These environments were then composited with live action plates for Jake Owens’ Productions short “Conscript”.

Centre for Arts and Technology, Halifax, NS June 2009, March 2010, March 2011
-Digital Bootcamp Instructor
-Duties included teaching 3D and 2D classes for a 3 day workshop for a high school student educational head start into the 3d Entertainment world. Worked with Maya, Flash and Photoshop showing first time users the software.

Education:

Centre for Arts and Technology, Halifax, NS June 2008 -March 2010
-3D Animation Diploma
-Graduated from a 2 year intensive 3d program teaching that taught Maya

Software knowledge:

-Maya
-Softimage XSI
-3D Studio Max (Animation)
-Realflow
-Zbrush
-PFTracker
-Flash
-Photoshop
-After Effects
-Premier Pro