Joel L. Anderson
1.310.801.6159 joel@joel3d.com
70 Village Parkway Santa Monica Ca. 90405

Introduction. I have been working in the industry over 10 years. I am a Maya generalist familiar with the most current and popular rigging techniques, also proficient in modeling, texturing and animation. I have an excellent overall understanding of Maya and general knowledge of MEL scripting.
As I mentioned I am a generalist so I have worked on a large variety of projects. There are currently two demo reels on my web site

Please take a look at my web page for examples of my work.
http://www.joel3d.com/

I am interested in freelance or full time positions.

email joel@joel3d.com

Employment History (2007-2010)

Imaginary Forces Energizer Bunny, Modeling, rigging and animation
Imaginary Forces Re-new / Nivia, Modeling and textures
Buck eTrade, Modeling and rigging of Christmas Robin
Axis Animation Activision Game Cinematic (NDA) Model of T.rex skeleton
3RingCircus Discovery 'I Was Bitten' Modeling, rigging and animation
Imaginary Forces Celebrex, Modeling,rigging, animation
Product Partners PX-90 Workout, Modeling, rigging, animation
King and Country barelythere.com, Modeling, rigging and animation
Designonthefly American Music Awards, Modeling, animation and lighting
Designonthefly T-Moble, Modeling, animation and lighting of Sidekick LX
Buck Coke Zero. ‘Unbelievable song’ Rigging Multiple characters.
Shilo Sony Singstar rigging, animation

*CineVisionVFX (London) 2006-2007 Creature rigging and pre-visual animation for 'Sea Monsters a Prehistoric Adventure' National Geographic IMAX film.

Designonthefly T-Moble Sidekick, Modeling, animation and lighting
Buck Cingular 'Push To Talk' commercials 'Business and Family' Modeling and rigging
King and Country Zemelex, Nuvalean. Modeling Lighiting
Product Partners PX-90 workout tapes and DVDs. Modeling, animation

Employment History (continued)

dsire.com Logo animation for movie website 'Beowulf'
Trance Disney television 'Teen Musical' Logo animation
Troika Modeling various assets for NFL pitch(s)
3 Ring Circus (2005-2006) Created animations of a realistic elephant for the 3RC web page. Also 3D modeling and animation for a variety of commercials: Secret Deodorant, Bose Stereo, Walmart, The Golf Channel.
Los Angeles County Superior Court (2005) Modeling and animation for 3D Crime scene re-enactment. Was called into courtroom as a expert witness to demonstrate 3d visualization.
ICT Institute for Creative Technology (2005) Created and rigged 3D character to work with virtual reality game engine to be used for training US Army.
Belief, LLC (2002-2004) Created 3D modeling and animation for Tropicana, Nissan, Foodnetwork, JCPenney, BBC America, The Carol Burnett Show, 2004 Broadcast Design Awards.
Foundation Imaging (2000-2001) Character Animator and Production artist on television show ‘Dan Dare Pilot of the Future’.
Netter Digital (1999-2000) Character Animator and production artist on television shows ‘Max Steel’, and ‘Dan Dare Pilot fo the Future’.

Santa Monica College (1997-1999) (Instructor) Traditional Animation, Computer Editing and Animatics.
Academy of Entertainment Technology (1997-1999) (Instructor) Taught Photoshop / Aftereffects / Premiere.
SMC Launchpad (1997-1999) (Instructor) Taught Photoshop / Illustrator / Premiere / Traditional Animation.

Education
SFAI San Francisco Art Institute. BFA 1992, Major Printmaking and Painting. Won ‘Best in show award’ 1992
SMC Santa Monica College. AA 1989. Major Art and Graphic design Minor studies in Natural Sciences.

Affiliations: Siggraph and AFI since 1996
CGSociety Member since 2004

Acknowledgment: To Appear in SIGGRAPH 2007 Real-Time Enveloping with Rotational Regression by Robert Y. Wang: Donated a T.rex model and muscle system rigging for test purposes at MIT.

Acknowledgment: February 2010 article entitled "Edge antialiasing by postprocessing" to appear in the book tentatively entitled Advanced Rendering Techniques, edited by Wolfgang Engel, to be published by A K Peters, Ltd. Publication Donation T.rex and Triceratops models

Acknowledgment: cgsociety.com Donation of two dinosaur skeletons for cgChallenge #17 Natural History.