MAYA 3D, Motion Builder
Resume:
NEIL EPSTEIN
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[ EMMY Award Recipient - 2D/3D Graphic Design; NBC - Olympics ]
[ Johnson & Johnson Headquarters – Silver Telly Award; Coronary
STENT Press Conference and NY Film Festival Honors ]
Samples:
“ANIMATION” Section (Recent Employer): HighTechTrial.com
3D Reel: NEIL EPSTEIN 3D REEL
9/05 to Present
Department Director - Graphic Design Legal Presentations Department
Trial Technologies, Inc.
1880 JFK Boulevard
6th Floor
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Direct and Produce 2D and 3D litigation support f or arbitration and trial purposes.
- Extensive use of Autodesk MAYA & Adobe After Effects – CS5 for the production of 2D/3D
motion graphics content.
1/02 to 7/05
Department Director - 3D Graphic Design and Digital Media Department
Burlington County College
Route 530, Pemberton, New Jersey
- Instructed over 200 students per semester on After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign,
MAYA. QUARK, Premier and PowerPoint.
- Designed, setup, networked and maintained two complete computer graphics labs.
- Supervised 5 full-time and 3 part-time Graphic Design Professors.
- Developed and implemented the college's curriculum for all Graphic Design, Digital Media and
3D Animation courses.
7/99 to 1/02
Lead 3D Computer Animator – Graphics Broadcast Designer
NBC - Sydney OLYMPIC Broadcast
Room 900 E., NBC Studios
30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York
and, On-Location at the International Broadcast Center
in The Olympic Village - Sydney, Australia
- EMMY Award - "Excellence in Broadcast Sports Graphics"
- responsible for designing and producing 2D and 3D elements for NBC's e ntire broadcast of the
Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
- MAYA, After Effects and Adobe Suite were the primary software packages used for this work.
- Implemented four Silicon Graphics ONYX workstations dedicated solely to 3D Design.
- Produced real-time 3D animation on the Everest platform, by the Peak software company - This
was the first time this system was used in a live broadcast.
10/97 to 7/99
2D/3D Animation/Graphics Specialist
Virtual Reality, 3D real-time character and environment modeling
Walt Disney Imagineering
87 Airpark Road - Princeton, New Jersey
14 Flower Street - Glendale, California
Projects:
Walt Disney Imagineering's Ride The Comix™
- Location Based Virtual Attraction for Walt Disney's DisneyQuest Virtual
Reality Gaming Center; Downtown Disney - DisneyWorld, Orlando.
Interactive Dance Studio™ PC Game
- In partnership with Meta Creations, Inc.
LABYRINTH™ Interactive PC game designed to showcase Pentium 4
- in partnership with INTEL
- Designed and produced 3D characters and environments for use in real -time video game and
virtual reality applications.
- MAYA, Photoshop and PerFly real-time software on Silicon Graphics workstations.
- Developed kinematic systems, and real-time 3D character rigging scenarios.
- Worked closely with 3D game programmers on the implementation of motion capture file s and
interactive environment configurations.
2/94 to 10/97
Department Director - 2D/3D Animation/Graphics
Johnson & Johnson Worldwide Headquarters
1 Johnson Plaza - Tower 211
New Brunswick, New Jersey
- 1996 Silver Telly Award
- 1994, 1995, 1996 New York Film Festival Honors
- Originated, implemented and maintained Graphic Design / 3D Animation studio.
- MAYA. Alias, WaveFront, Photoshop, Composer, Premier, Illustrator and PowerPoint software.
- Worked closely with Directors and Editors (in the J&J Headquarters PR Department) in the
development of high-end video productions.
1/89 to 2/94
Owner/Operator
Nu-Tech Animation, Incorporated
1010 Mount Pleasant Way
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
- Developed, marketed, and operated a Graphic Design and 3D Animation company in the
Philadelphia Metropolitan area.
- AT&T Topaz and WaveFront 3D software, as well as Photoshop and Illustrator.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rutgers University; Major: 3-D Computer Animation / Fine Arts
Specialized 3-D Graphics Training:
WAVEFRONT - Advanced Visualizer; Santa Barbara, CA
WAVEFRONT - Composer/Kinemation; Santa Barbara, CA
SILICON STUDIOS - Level 2 Dynamation; Santa Monica, CA
GLOBIX – Maya 6.0; New York, NY
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