acvahu@r.postjobfree.com Scott F. Dalton Graphic artist

Education

Skills

Work History

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Graphic Artist highly passionate about art, technology and the creative processes. Creative and detail-oriented Illustrator with strong background in print, web, video and film. Willing to take creative risks and push conceptual boundaries. AA in graphic design, Certified Multimedia Artist

Platt College - Laguna Beach, CA 1998

Traditional Artist

Skilled in many mediums from sketch, ink to color. Strong understanding of design and layout concepts as well as composition and color theory. Experienced with Comic Art, Character Design, Technical Illustration, Concept Art and Storyboarding. Graphic Artist

I am trained and experienced in both printed media and video/film. Expert of many high- end graphics and animation software, including PhotoShop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Adobe After FX, Flash and Lightwave. Working knowledge of 2D and 3D animation concepts from modeling, surfacing, and lighting to compositing, motion tracking and visual effects. Experienced in many areas of postproduction. Graphic Designer

Rogerson Aircraft Corporation – Irvine, CA April 2016 to May 2016 Creation of graphic elements for helicopter navigation and flight information system. Updating old graphic layouts and creating new imagery including Radar Altimeters, Radar Maps, and System Maintenance screens. Also generated wiring diagrams and system maps. Graphic Designer

Shoreline Real Estate - Long Beach, CA - April 2013 to December 2015 General graphic design, photo manipulation, color correction and cleanup. Design of pamphlets and other advertising collateral.

Account Specialist / Graphic Design

Action Auto Recovery - Los Angeles, CA - 2009 to 2012 Responsible for handling repossession accounts from client relations to delivering information to outside agents, and some skip-tracing duties. Also created business materials and corporate logos for this and other associated recovery companies. Graphic Design

Audio Abacus / Gregory Big Audio - 2006 to 2010

Responsible for 3D imaging for conceptual audio enclosure system. Modeling enclosure units to spec from blueprint designs, surfacing and lighting them to render out product shots. Duties also include creation of advertising materials, conceptual artwork, designs, photography, and interactive 3-dimentional models. Illustration / Graphic Design

Mr. Firley / Split Decision - Costa Mesa, CA - 2003 to 2007 Creatoin of CD covers, key art and promotional materials for local OC punk band. Also put together show flyers for various events between 02 and 05. Graphic Design

Z-Pizza HB - Huntington Beach, CA - 2004 to 2006

Created artwork for various posters and other promotional materials. Lettered and created artwork for menu boards, as well as some cooking and customer service duties. Graphics Specialist/ Web Designer

RaapNet - Huntington Beach, CA - 2002 to 2002

Created Graphics and Layout Designs for various Web Sites using Dreamweaver, Flash, with some light programming. Conducted training sessions in basic web design. Also designed various promotional brochures for print.

Special Effects Supervisor

O Entertainment - San Juan Capistrano, CA -1999 - 2002 Thumb Double Feature / Thumb Parody Series

Was involved with most of the production creating storyboards, concept sketches, character design, and even background matte pieces, both practical and digital. Was the effects supervisor on various video shoots, some with live actors and shoots involving miniatures. Created key art, such as posters, one sheets, video / DVD cover art, and In post production, was a key 2D animator, creating titles, composite effects, and special effects, as well as some 3D modeling and animation. Supervised several small crews of animators. The O Show

Created a wide range of visual effects for the show, as well as created a 3D animated title. Also re-worked existing effects that needed to be enhanced. Dirk Derby: Wonder Jockey

Cut keys from green screen, and developed Flash animation techniques and animation tests for proposed Internet show. Also worked on designing and creating background pieces. Thumb.Com / The O Channel.Com

Served as webmaster for the company on off time and between projects. Created most of the art and animation on the site, as well as managed the mailing list, discussion forum, and newsletters.

Kung Pow! Enter the Fist

As Key Effects Artist for the film, overcome many challenges while creating a wide range of special effects, where both 3D and 2D tools were used, and then composite them to match old dirty film footage. Each shot came with unique problem solving challenges that were met and overcome with inventing new processes and techniques. Also provided art elements and created the animation for the film's intermission sequence. Motion Graphics Designer

JB Productions - Irvine, CA - 1998 to 1999

Provided a wide range of services, such as: title graphics / animation, photographic touch- up and alteration, to high-end clients such as: St John Knits, Drapers and Damon's Quicksilver, and Roxy.

Graphic Artist

DC Graphics - Irvine, CA - 1997 to 1998

Worked in a graphics / photography studio designing for print and electronic pre-press. Was also in charge of creating multimedia and Internet content. Online Portfolio

http://ScottDalton.daportfolio.com

References

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Contact

Phone: 714•418•8500

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Effects Animator

Electric Eye - Irvine, CA - 1999

Created composite effects for the animated short Thumbtanic. Used Adobe After Effects to do motion tracking, color matching, and various added visual effects. Motion Graphics Artist

J3 Productions - Irvine, CA - 1999

Created animated titles and motion graphics for a company PR demo video. Additional Information

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