Michael Ayers Jr

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Cambria Heights, NY 11411

Character Animator – Character Designer – Concept Artist

Objective

My career goals in Computer Animation is to bring characters to live and tell a good story to the audience for an animated features while continuing digital painting scenes.

Software Experience

• Autodesk Maya

• Autodesk Motionbuilder

• Pixilogic Zbrush

• Adobe Photoshop

• Adobe After Effects

• Adobe Flash

• Toonboom Studio

• Retas! QuickChecker

Course Knowledge Experience

• Character Animation- Developed blocking each pose-to-pose to the pre-rig in before animating in Autodesk Maya.

o Project: Search for an audio clip, animate two rigged models and apply the lip sync to these rigs base on the audio clip.

• 3D 2: Animation- Studied and practiced the techniques for animation in Autodesk Maya using the graph editor and the dope sheet.

o Project: Animate the ball bouncing down the steps.

• Drawing for Animators 1 and 2- Studied the 12 principles of an animation and the shapes of the lip sync and apply them to the animated characters.

o Project for Drawing for Animators 1: Animating the bouncing ball, walking cycle, jumping cycle, perspective, animate the character jumping in a turnarounds cycle and wave cycle.

o Project for Drawing for Animators 2: Create my own character’s head and apply the lip sync and the facial expression on my character based on audio.

• Movement for Animators- Studied the 7 principles of acting and practiced applying those principles to the characters.

o Project: Create two characters, animate them base on the audio clip.

• Digital Paintings: Studied the techniques in Photoshop for to paint digitally.

o Project: Develop four concept arts.

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Character Animator – Character Designer – Concept Artist

Course Knowledge Experience (Cont.)

• Externship- Experienced working at the studio

o Project: Coloring and add special effects to the comic book panels, coloring the animated characters.

Education

• International Academy of Design & Technology Tampa

o Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation Aug 2011

• International Academy of Design & Technology Orlando

o Associate Degree in Computer Graphics July 2008

Work Experience

• Aniboom Studios (Freelance)

o Currently developing 2D animated religious music video for the Under the Radar Records. Jan 2012 - presents

• Internship- Experienced working at Humouring the Fates Studios

o Project: Colored and added special effects to the comic book panels and colored the animated characters. June 2011-August 2011

• Publix in Stockbridge, GA

o Front Service Clerk

Bagging groceries for each customer. March 2006- June 2006