3D Artist

David James McMahon

*** *** ***** *********, ******, CA 94706 510-***-**** act9sa@r.postjobfree.com

RESUME

Education: Academy of Art University

San Francisco, California, BA, Animation, December, 2012 University of California, Berkeley, MSCE, 1989, Geotechnical Engineering

University of California, Berkeley, BSCE, 1983, Civil Engineering Websites: Modo Reel: http://davidjamesmcmahon.com/ Graeaex: http://graeaex.com/

Digital Graphics

Software and

Proficiency:

I am expert in Modo, Photoshop; knowledgeable about Point Oven, Nuke, Maya, ZBrush, Mental Mill, UV Layout; beginner/familiar with Houdini, Mari, Aftereffects, Renderman; exposed to 3D Coat. Digital Graphics

Work Experience:

May 2014-present

March 2012-2014

January-February,

2012

May-June, 2012

August, 2012

Fall, 2012

CEO, Graeaex Incorporated: CT visualization. Winner, "Best in Show," ToScA Conference, September 2015.

Mesh Mover, Modo Plug-in Development (about half completed). The Base Studio, for Jordan Freida;

Character development of "Hipmunk" for a proposed Hipmunk commercial;

Testing of Modo hair for a Panda Express Commercial.

"Skyburner," by Richard Taylor and Bruce Walters;

Two scenes for a movie trailer; rigging, textures, rendering and animation.

"Atoll," a movie treatment by Bruce Walters; Model, rig, texture of a flying saucer; character sculpt.

Modo Workshop; Tutoring; Ran a workshop teaching Modo modeling, texturing, animation and rendering to AAU students. Reel and Portfolio

Breakdown:

Atoll

Modeling, rigging, and textures and rendering (Modo), of an Avro- style flying saucer for a movie treatment by Bruce Walters; scouting of sets (USS MAKIN ISLAND).

Skyburner Modeled, rigged, textured, animated and rendered two scenes

(Modo) for a movie trailer with Bruce Walters for Richard Taylor; minor modifications and pilot added to the original skyburner model by Michael Valestrino; created a rig (Modo); animated the Flyby scene, and canopy animation for the Startup scene; rendering; compositing by Bruce Walters; advertising textures by Richard Taylor; copywrite by Jeff Apple.

Hipmunk Character development including modeling and textures for the Hipmunk character (Modo); hair/fur (Modo); for Jordan Freda at The Base studio. Panda Express Modo hair development.

The Swan Modeling the truck for the AAU student film, "The Swan" (Modo), from orthos by Bruce Walters, for a collaborative project at the Academy of Art University.

Dinosaur Textures for the dinosaur by Dave McMahon; rigging by Janice Gee, animation by Amrinder Jassar, lighting by Bryan William Hickerson, camera, matchmoving, matchlighting, and direction by Mukul Soman. The project was done for a lighting class, where rendering was done within Maya, rendering and compositing by Mukul Soman. Rhino Texture and lighting for a Modo rhino asset (Modo): displacements, diffuse, spec, subsurface scattering, and hair. The Modo hair systems were used for hair and also for fibrous horn and toes. Mouth Texture and lighting for a Modo stock model head asset: displacements, diffuse, spec, subsurface scattering, and hair; painted in Modo; rendered in Maya; Shave and a Haircut hair (stubble) rendered in Maya; composited in AfterEffects.

Desert Scene Modeled, textured, lighted and rendered a handcar model (from plans), rails, railroad ties, sand groundplane, lantern, and plants

(Modo); wood components and background mountains sculpted in ZBrush, where decimated meshes were exported for rendering (no displacements required for faster rendering); replicator bushes,

"desert tea bushes," composed of replicated main branches and replicated branches; reflection direction used for night-time sand, and for lantern and bucket galvanized textures; composited in Nuke. Boeing 314 Modeling, rigging, textures and animation (Modo); my first model in Modo; model of a Boeing 314, the famous China Clipper, or Hawaii Clipper, which used to fly out of the Treasure Island Seaport; obtained rare plans from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA; these very interesting planes were enlisted by the Navy during WWII, and were subsequently scrapped, so none of these planes remain in existence; rivets done with displacements.

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