Joel L. Anderson
1.310.801.6159 joel@joel3d.com
70 Village Parkway Santa Monica Ca. 90405
Objective. I am a Maya generalist familiar with the most current and popular rigging techniques, also proficient in modeling and animation. I have a good overall understanding of Maya and basic knowledge of MEL scripting. I have specialized experience setting up characters using muscle/skin systems you can see examples of these on my current demo reel.
As I mentioned I am a generalist so I have worked on a variety of projects (not just dinosaurs). There are examples on my web site in the gallery section showing some of the projects.
Please take a look at my web page for examples of my work.
http://www.joel3d.com/
I work well independently, or as a contributing team member. I am interested in freelance or full time positions.
Employment Summary. Working in Television and Feature Film for approximately 10 years. I completed a wide variety of projects that included, modeling organic and hard surfaces, UV layout and texturing, Rigging and Skinning characters, animation and rendering with Mental Ray.
Employment History (2006-2008)
Product Partners Modeling, Rigging, Animation for PX-90 Workout DVD menu. Complicated animation that involved a Rubics Cube shuffling to reveal multiple images.
King and Country Modeling, rigging and animation for barelythere.com Created 3d models and animation of a Cinderella style horse and carriage that were converted to flash elements to be used on the web site.
Designonthefly Modeling, Animation and Rendering titles for American Music Awards. Created elements and animation for the on-air broadcast.
Designonthefly Modeling, Animation and Rendering of T-Moble Sidekick LX. Created animated photo realistic cell phone.
Buck Rigging, Coke Zero. (NDA)
Shilo Rigging, Animation for Sony Singstar. Animation integrating live elements with CG.
*CineVisionVFX (London) Creature rigging and pre-visual animation for 'Sea Monsters a Prehistoric Adventure' National Geographic IMAX film. Created rigging for dinosaurs, included the use of Muscle systems and dynamics.
Designonthefly Modeling, animation and rendering of T-Moble Sidekick 3. Created animated photo realistic cell phone.
Buck Modeling and rigging for Cingular 'Push To Talk' commercials 'Business and Family' Created environments and props, and did character rigging.
King and Country modeling animation and rendering of fitness products Zemelex, Nuvalean.
Product Partners Modeling, animation and rendering products for fitness infomercial PX-90 workout tapes and DVDs.
Employment History (continued)
dsire.com Logo animation for movie web site 'Beowulf'
Trance Logo animation for Disney television 'Teen Musical'
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 of 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.