Graphic Designer Motion Graphics

Website: www.kevin-cobb.com, Email: **********@*****.***, Phone: 917-***-****,

Instagram: @forprophet

Education

Columbia University, MFA, Sep 2021 - May 2023

Maryland Institute College of Art, BFA, May 2012 - Aug 2016 George W. Carver Center for Arts and Technology, HS Diploma Aug 2008 - Jun 2012

Experience

4/25 - 4/25 Kathedra

CGI Artist (Freelance), New York City

Storyboarded and animated two short animations illustrating robotic upholstery-building processes, in two weeks, as start-up pitch material, using Blender and After Effects. Helped clients win two rounds of a design pitch competition. Realistically simulated foam and fabric dynamics, and dynamically illustrated the tensile strength of a stretching fabric. Virtually built and rigged robotic pincers, and animated them manipulating a simulated fabric.

2/21 - 1/25 Sunwoo Projects

Video and CGI Artist (Intermittently/Part Time), New York City and London, UK

Made most of the CGI and Video Editing for a 20 minute short film titled “Color Theory”. Keyed, Color Corrected, rotoscoped, animated, and composited characters, images, and assets into realistic scenes I designed and created digitally in Blender. Created artificial characters and composited them as extras alongside actors in the scene. Coordinated targeted assistance from Fiverr artists. Made 2D assets for print and 3D/animated assets for video, for use in live performance titled: Specially Processed American Me.

9/20 - 8/21 Wolf in Motion

Multimedia Studio Artist, London, UK

Composed realistic environments with character animations in Unity for narrative film. Made visual experiments, pre-visualization, and final products and renders for the film. Cooperated with a small team to create an award winning video game. Hand-Illustrated, scanned, digitized, and optimized assets for a video game made in Unity. 5/17 - 1/22 Concentric Health Experience, New York, NY Multimedia Designer

Drew illustrations and storyboards for photoshoots and video. 3D modelled medical devices to animate or display on print or websites. 3D modelled and textured product packaging for printed pamphlets, banners, and standees. 3D modelled props for photographic scenes in Cinema 4D, and realistically incorporated them into their settings. Animated text and 3D models using Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Cinema 4D. Retouched and composited images in Photoshop. Continuously learned and utilized new tools. Saved thousands on reshoots by leveraging my skill in painting, by creatively manipulating and realistically digitally repainting problem areas. Clients included Johnson

& Johnson, Novartis, OXBRYTA, GirlyGirlParts, and Lundbeck/Otsuka America Pharmaceutical.

2/19 - 8/21 Freelance Multimedia Studio Artist, NYC & London Created Drawn and Retouched Illustrations, 3D models, and Animations using Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and Cinema 4D/Blender. Clients Included: Nivea, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Concentric Health, UMG, and several musical artists, including LANY and Doje.

10/17 - 3/18 Titmouse, New York, NY

Freelance Illustrator for “Little Red” Pitch Materials Designed and illustrated 6 cartoon characters, showing their personalities in context, for a television cartoon pitch.

6/17 - 2/18 Vogel Design, New Milford, CT

Freelance Digital Illustrator

Illustrated an image for the label of a Nivea branded lotion using Photoshop and Cinema 4D.

9/16 - 4/17 Catch 24, New York, NY

Animation and Graphic Design Intern

Retouched and silhouetted images in Photoshop of people, and cosmetics and food products from companies like Kiehls and Muscle Maker Grill. Removed blemishes from photographed scenes of products, masked products out of one context and re- composited them in other contexts; color correcting and shading them realistically. Salt Studios, New York, NY

CGI Product Modeler and Designer

Used Maya and ZBrush to produce 3D models of Johnson & Johnson cosmetics. Synthesized product labels for 3D cosmetics using Photoshop and Illustrator. Color corrected ~100 variants of 3D modeled cosmetics using Nuke and Photoshop. Skills

Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Premiere, Nuke, ZBrush, FL Studio

Awards

2024 Inclusion in New American Paintings MFA Annual Issue #171 Best Artist Under 40, April PleinAir Salon Award

2023 Hercules Art Studio Program, Subsidized 2-year Studio Residency Columbia University, Scholarship

Columbia’s MFA Show Is an Immersive Experience, Hyperallergic publication 2022 Mozaik 2022 Future Art Award, Awarded a $2500 honorarium for digital artwork “Ecstasis”

iF Design Award, Awarded for Teenage Firefighters Illustrations and Gameplay, with Wolf In Motion.

2015 US National Fulbright Nomination

Nominated by the US to Research Dutch 17th century oil painting in the Netherlands to reinterpret the genre through the lens of digital painting and CGI.

Morris Lewis ‘32 Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art, 2015 Was awarded the Morris Lewis ‘32, $20,000 Scholarship from MICA for excellence in painting as a rising senior. Donated by long term MICA supporter, Marcella Brenner.

2014 MICA Returning Student’s Honor Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art

2012 National Gold Medal in Painting, NAACP ACT-SO

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