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Jim Donovan gotothejim@gmail.com
(978) 846 - 2094

Objective Seeking an opportunity to utilize and enhance my 3D animation/generalist skills while working with a team of other talented artists. Desire a chance to express creativity and to create something that is entertaining to the targeted audience.

Education Springfield College
263 Alden Street
Springfield, MA 01109
May, 2005
Bachelors of Science in Computer Graphics
Cum Laude
GPA: 3.65

Experience

GoToTheJim Animation (Nov. 2004 – Present) (Owner)
3D Animator/Generalist Freelance Projects:

  • Golden Wings Productions – Created a 30 second animation for a 3D animated children's TV show pilot
  • Holomatix – Modeled 3D Mobile Phones & Printers. Textured the models by blending high resolution photographs in Photoshop. Final models are displayed on client's websites such as Motorola, Epson, Sagem, & Kyocera.
  • New England Outdoor Life - Created a 9.5 second 3D animated intro for the TV show “New England Outdoor Life” using Maya, After Effects, & Photoshop

Treite Productions, London (June 2008 - present)

  • 3D generalist: Responsible for character modeling, rigging, texturing, & animating.

XVIVO, Rocky Hill, CT (Jan 2005 - April 2005) (INTERN)

  • Created, rigged, textured, and animated 3D models for medical, realistic, and cartoon/stylized animated movies
  • Learned to use software such as After Effects, ZBrush, and XSI

GoToTheJim.com, CatholicWhitehouse.com, & Whole-Health-Fitness.com

  • Designed entire website using Photoshop and Macromedia Dreamweaver
  • Maintain and update websites

 


Computer
Skills

Alias Maya

  • Extensive experience since 2001
  • Modeling with polygons and NURBS
  • Character animation and lip sync
  • Rigging/weighting characters & creating blendshapes
  • UV Texture mapping

Softimage XSI

  • Character animation
  • Polygonal modeling

Adobe Photoshop

  • Extensive experience since 1998
  • Creating Texture Maps, Bump Maps, and Specular Maps for use in Maya
  • Logo design

Adobe Premiere

  • Expert at compositing video and sound.

Macromedia Flash

  • Created story line animation involving fully animated characters
  • Experience with Action Scripting and Web Design

Other Software

  • Adobe Illustrator (expert), Adobe After Effects (expert), Adobe GoLive (expert), Macromedia Dreamweaver (expert), Quark (intermediate), Pixologic ZBrush (intermediate), Sound Forge (intermediate)
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