Work Experience

Date: July 2008- September 2008
Company: Theory 7
Location: Maidstone
Project Title: Microsoft/Ford Project (www.this-is-now.co.uk)
Position: 3D Modeller/ Concept Artist

I was approached by Theory7 to become part of their team on a contract basis to help create a virtual city to be used on a Microsoft backed web special to promote the New Ford Fiesta.
The website involves a 3D Fiesta driving through a virtual city and then reaches a signpost and from there you can choose to navigate to 6 other areas of the city dedicated to different sections of the site from an Open Cinema to Fashion (Selfridges). Many other companies where involved in this lifestyle oriented advert and I was responsible for modeling and texturing of all the high detailed areas you can visit from the signpost including the signpost itself and surrounding area also. In addition I also built some of the skyscrapers and a few boats.



Date: September 2007-July 2008
Project Title: The Talos Project • Launch (www.thetalosproject.com)
Position: Freelance

During this period I took some time off to develop a personal project, a graphic novel and webcomic called The Talos Project (www.thetalosproject.com)
For this I created a cast of realistic human characters and environments using Maya, Zbrush and Mental Ray and launched the first 12 pages on 30th May 2008.



Date: 2003-2007
Company: News International Newspapers Ltd
Location: Maidstone
Project Title: The Premier (www.redparkcity.co.uk)
Position: Senior Digital Artist/Writer.

I was given the opportunity to be part of a 4-man team to create a new 3D comic strip called The Premier for The Sun Newspaper and then The Sun Online website. In this role my responsibilities included being involved in story decisions, story-boarding, modeling, texturing, rigging, shading, lighting of both characters and environments and then the posing of characters, shot set-up and rendering of the strip and then any retouching that was need, post-production work and the writing of the final dialog and uploading to the website. This process would usually take between 1 and 2 days per strip (usually around 6-7 panel strip every 1 or 2 days to keep ahead).



Date: 2000-2003
Company: Striker3D Ltd
Location: London, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge.
Project Title: Striker
Position: Digital Artist

I started full-time at Striker3D Ltd just after my 20th birthday. My responsibilities there were to create the artwork as part of a small team for the Striker comic strip featured in The Sun Newspaper. During the three years there I learnt to model, uv, texture, shade and light both environments and characters to a very demanding daily deadline.
During the first year there we used Lightwave 5.6, for which I got some basic training. In the second year there we switched to Maya to make use of better character based tools it offered in particular we liked artisan. This was not an easy switch as we had to set-up all our assets and learn and get the next weeks strips done immediately as we still had to produce 6 strips a weeks all year round no matter what. We moved offices a few times the last of which was to Tonbridge as we left The Sun to create an independent weekly Striker comic.


Date: July 1998 -September 1998
Company: Nucleus Creative Services
Location: London
Project Title: Various
Position: Trainee

After college I worked on a 4-min animated short with which I managed to get work experience which became temp work for Nucleus Creative Services, Wells Street, London. During this time I was given my first opportunity to have access to professional software such as Maya, Lightwave, Max and Photoshop and helped develop promotional images for various movie posters used anywhere from bus stops to the front of the ODEON cinema in Leicester Square which was pretty cool experience for an 18 year old.