Graphic Design Lab Technician

JOANN GROSS GROSS FX STUDIOS

*****@*******.*** 818-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/Joann-Gross-GrossFXStudios \ www.GROSSFX.COM P.O. Box 664 Crestline, CA 92325

EXPERIENCE

Gross FX Studios – owner 1997-present

- - production design, set and prop design and construction, welding Scenic & faux painting, signage, murals, screen-printing Sculpture, mold maker/lab technician, vacu-form

Make-up & special effects

- - IATSE Local 44 Prop-maker 2012-present

SKILLS & MATERIALS

Sculpture - foam, clay, wood, stone, metal

Construction - prop, set, furniture, float, event, trade show and model design & fabrication

- foam, wood, metal, fiberglass, clay, foam core, use of all hand and shop tools Scenic paint - processes & preparation, textural treatments, faux finishing, airbrush, murals, hand lettering Make-up & FX - character, theatrical, aging, prosthetics, wounds, animatronics, mechanical, creature FX Mold making - life casting, fiberglass, silicone box & brush up, matrix molds Drawing - drafting and technical drawing, pencil rendering Woodworking - construction, finishing and fine furniture Metalworking - hot and cold processes

Graphic design - Photoshop, Illustrator, SketchUp, sign design & fabrication, screen printing Fine arts - sculpture, fine jewelry, painting, mixed media, stained glass, tattooing, drawing, ceramics Budgeting & negotiating material contracts with vendors, purchasing Well versed in research methods of time-period, architecture and cultural elements Workable knowledge of period art and architecture

Set dressing

EDUCATION

Douglas School of Business, PA - - Special Makeup FX Dick Smith Professional Makeup Course - - Special Makeup FX Metropolitan State College of Denver, CO - - Industrial Design, Woodworking, Fine Arts, Anthropology Red Rocks Community College, CO - - Computer Graphics & Design CLIENTS & SHOPS

Ultra Productions Warner Bros Studios Kollaboration McNally Enterprises Utopia Worldwide Manmade Entertainment Floats Best Friends Animal Society Sequoia Productions FilmPulse Walk the Prank Dapper Cadaver Ladies Take the Lead Rebel Scenery Company Inc. Silver Birches

Scenic Express Total Fabrication Show FX / Disneyland Freenjoy - Ariana Grande video Anonymous Content - Beck video Foxtail nightclub / Beverly Hills, CA Rolling Robots / Glendale, Palos Verdes, Los Angeles, CA Sets in the City / Central City Studios MISC EXPERIENCE

Event fabrication: TDA Design, Decor-N-More, Atmosphere/High-Lighters, Freeman Decorating 1992, 2000-2006

- - artist, graphic design, event & trade show dressing, sculpture, prop & scenic fabrication, muralist, signage Haunted Attractions: Terrormania – Monessen, PA, Brutal Planet - Denver, CO 2003 & 2004 & 2005

- - staff make-up, face painting booth, fabrication, store manager Sign fabrication and design: Lighted Business Signs, RMD Signs, Colo. Signworks, Signtist 1992-1998 &

- - graphic design, sign fabrication and installation, screen printing, customer relations 2000-2003 Six Flags Elitch Gardens / sign shop - Denver, CO 1997, 2000, 2005

- - sign & prop design & fabrication, hand lettering, murals, sculpture D & W Ceramics - Aurora, CO 1998-2000

- - sculptor, artist, fabricator

USWest Direct Yellow Pages - Aurora, CO 1989-1991

- - computer graphic design, production manager

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