Education

• BFA - Comic Art, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN.

Artistic Skills

• Traditional media, pencil, ink, charcoal, watercolor, oil and acrylic paints

• Digital media and art, vectors, web elements and design

• Digital 2D asset implementation and design

• Lighting, color theory and composition

• Storyboarding, narrative flow, and graphic storytelling

• Collaboration with writers, artists, and directors to complete art within or under deadline, and meeting or exceeding expectations.

Technical Skills

• Expert skill in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

, Dreamweaver

• Some Experience in Painter, Maya, AfterEffects, and Flash

• Assets for game engines and optimized web graphics

• Website layout, planning, and implementation, HTML and some CSS.

• Some animation experience

Game Experience

• Decay - concepts for characters and environments

• Rise - concepts for characters, armor, maps and environments, and HUD

• Valhalla - concepts for environments

• Ground Zero mod - concept, character, and environment design

• Ionian Races (unpublished) - 2D assets, in-game textures, character illustrations and UI design

• Private and unpublished commissioned assets, textures, and character
  designs.

• Web Designer, Appnet.com, 2007 - Current

Experience and Exhibitions

• MCAD Commencement Exhibition

• Minicon 2006 - Best Comic Art 3 Student

• Internship with DC comic artist Gordon Purcell