b'RESUME\nDan Platt\n5134 Oakdale Ave.\nWoodland Hills, CA 91364\n\n3D Artist/Modeler - Designer\nTel. 818-887-2585\nFax. 818-887-5578\nEmail: dan@solidimagearts.com\n\n[ PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY ]\nSkilled, experienced and versatile 3D professional with nearly 20 years of combined experience using digital and traditional media.\nWorked as a staff artist and as an independent designer. Extensive background in the digital/traditional arts including character\ndesign, toy and product design, cutting edge medical animation and web based solutions. Self motivated, innovative, adapts quickly\nto new solutions and works well under pressure - meeting all challenging and mission critical deadlines. Obsessed with creative\nchallenges beckoning 3d solutions. Seeks professional and freelance opportunities in 3D design.\n[ PROFESSIONAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE ]\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Digital and traditional 3D character and prop modeling \xe2\x80\xa2 Photorealistic texturing & rendering \xe2\x80\xa2 Digital and traditional pattern\ndevelopment \xe2\x80\xa2 Human and \xe2\x80\x9cun-human\xe2\x80\x9d anatomical expert \xe2\x80\xa2 Character modeling, maquettes & style guides \xe2\x80\xa2 Mock ups \xe2\x80\xa2 2D Illustration & Design \xe2\x80\xa2 Maya \xe2\x80\xa2 Lightwave 3D \xe2\x80\xa2 Electric Image Universe \xe2\x80\xa2 Painter3D \xe2\x80\xa2 Photoshop \xe2\x80\xa2 Illustrator\n\xe2\x80\xa2 QuarkXpress \xe2\x80\xa2 InDesign \xe2\x80\xa2 After Effects \xe2\x80\xa2 Final Cut Express \xe2\x80\xa2 MS Word/Office \xe2\x80\xa2 Golive 6 \xe2\x80\xa2 Red Hat Linux \xe2\x80\xa2 MAC OSX 10.3,\nMAC OS 9.2.2 and Windows 2000/XP\n[ CAREER HIGHLIGHTS ]\n\xe2\x80\xa2 I, Robot - Modeled and developed the design of the NS5 robot under Patrick Tatopoulis using Maya and Lightwave 3D\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Star Wars Trilogy - Created the Star Wars Trilogy movie poster to represent the latter three films for Lucas Film.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Digital Hero Award - Designed, developed and manufactured the Digital Hero for 3D Festival, Sweden.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Merck Medicus - Conceptualized, designed and developed the Merck Medicus 3D icon.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Terminator 2 - Created a motion controlled puppet of Arnold Schwarzeneggar in \xe2\x80\x9cT2\xe2\x80\x9d \xe2\x80\x93 the special effects received an\nAcademy Award\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Digital Hall of Fame - Distinguished member and recipient\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Merck - Listed as a \xe2\x80\x9cMerck Preferred Vendor\xe2\x80\x9d for 3D medical animation, 3D illustration and educational products\n[ DIGITAL 3D WORK HISTORY ]\nMEDICAL: Designed & manufactured medical 3D models, animations & visuals for Merck & Co, Inc., Abbot Labs,\nCorbett Healthcare, National Comprehensive Cancer Network\n\xe2\x80\xa2 CD4 Cell physician/patient model \xe2\x80\xa2 Singulair physician/patient lung model \xe2\x80\xa2 Crixivan medical poster \xe2\x80\xa2 Medicus logo\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Crixivan HIV mechanism of action booklet and slide series \xe2\x80\xa2 HIV level of potency animation \xe2\x80\xa2 Medicus intro animation\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Promotional Medicus key chain \xe2\x80\xa2 Promotional Medicus ergo computer mouse \xe2\x80\xa2 CD4 Cell model box art\nGAME ANIMATICS & MODELS: Created and designed digital/traditional models for the Arcade and Game industry\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Vivendi Universal: 3D box art illustration for Dark Ages of Camelot, DAoC Gold Edition, Predator (2002 to 2004)\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Blizzard Entertainment: Action figure character design, creation and manufacturing (1999 - 2002)\n\xe2\x80\xa2 vTorque: Character modeling for MotoXXX, Lu Vampyr game animatics (2002 to 2004)\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Atari Games: Character design and model construction for Primal Rage and Area 51 (1993 - 1995)\n3D Misc: Various, recent digital modeling projects (2003 - 2004)\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Lightsport\xe2\x84\xa2 (product modeling) \xe2\x80\xa2 Somerset Ent. (anatomical modeling for box art) \xe2\x80\xa2 Master Replicas (product modeling)\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Asylum (box art) \xe2\x80\xa2 Mattel (Action figures and accessories)\n[ CONTINUED ]\n\n\x0cRelevant \xe2\x80\x9cAnalog & Digital\xe2\x80\x9d 3D work history continued...\n[ FILM ACCOMPLISHMENTS - 1989/2004]\n\nDigital modeling, miniatures, puppets, make-up effects, design and fabrication\n\n\xe2\x80\xa2 A Day with Wilbur Robinson (in Production) \xe2\x80\xa2 Curandero (in Production) \xe2\x80\xa2 The Cave \xe2\x80\xa2 I, Robot \xe2\x80\xa2 Gnomeo & Juliet \xe2\x80\xa2 The Addams Family\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Area 51 \xe2\x80\xa2 Army of Darkness \xe2\x80\xa2 Batman Returns \xe2\x80\xa2 Dark Warrior \xe2\x80\xa2 Dinosaur City \xe2\x80\xa2 Ernest Scared Stupid \xe2\x80\xa2 Escape from LA \xe2\x80\xa2 Exorcist\nIII \xe2\x80\xa2 Freakz \xe2\x80\xa2 Gremlins 2 \xe2\x80\xa2 Honey, I blew up the baby \xe2\x80\xa2 Hall of Energy \xe2\x80\x93 Epcot Astronaut \xe2\x80\xa2 Harley Davidson and Marlboro Man \xe2\x80\xa2\nHighlander 2 \xe2\x80\xa2 Hook \xe2\x80\xa2 Innocent Blood \xe2\x80\xa2 Jurassic Park \xe2\x80\xa2 Kick Boxer 2 \xe2\x80\xa2 Leeds Point \xe2\x80\xa2 Nemesis \xe2\x80\xa2 Pet Semetary 2 \xe2\x80\xa2 Primal Rage \xe2\x80\xa2 Star\nWars Trilogy \xe2\x80\x93 Movie poster \xe2\x80\xa2 Terminator 2 \xe2\x80\xa2 Ticks \xe2\x80\xa2 True Lies \xe2\x80\xa2 Warlock\n[ TV ACCOMPLISHMENTS - 1989/1996 ]\n\nMiniature puppet effects, make-up effects, design and fabrication\n\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Alice in Wonderland \xe2\x80\xa2 Andersonville \xe2\x80\xa2 \xe2\x80\xa6and the sea will tell \xe2\x80\xa2 Attack of the 50 foot women \xe2\x80\xa2 The Beast\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Christmas at Target \xe2\x80\x93 Ginger Bread dancers commercial \xe2\x80\xa2 Coast Soap \xe2\x80\x9cThe Thinker\xe2\x80\x9d commercial \xe2\x80\xa2 Danger Island\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Deep Space 9 \xe2\x80\xa2 Hunchback of Notre Dame \xe2\x80\xa2 IT \xe2\x80\xa2 John Lee Hooker video \xe2\x80\xa2 Land of the Lost \xe2\x80\xa2 MGM Grand International\nrestaurants commercial \xe2\x80\xa2 Monsters - Manikins of Horror \xe2\x80\xa2 Playboy Centerfold video \xe2\x80\xa2 Shake, Rattle & Roll \xe2\x80\xa2 Tru \xe2\x80\x93 The play\n[ TOY ACCOMPLISHMENTS -1990/2003 ]\n\nDesigned, developed and manufactured action figures, dolls & models\n\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Alien Resurrection \xe2\x80\xa2 Battle Squads \xe2\x80\xa2 Bela Lugosi doll \xe2\x80\xa2 Bernie Wrightson\xe2\x80\x99s Frankenstein \xe2\x80\xa2 C3PO \xe2\x80\xa2 Diablo 2 \xe2\x80\xa2 The Flintstones\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Classic Disney \xe2\x80\xa2 Gargoyles \xe2\x80\xa2 Godzilla \xe2\x80\xa2 Hercules \xe2\x80\xa2 The Jersey Devil \xe2\x80\xa2 Judge Dredd \xe2\x80\xa2 Jurassic Park Chaos\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Major League Baseball \xe2\x80\xa2 National Football League \xe2\x80\xa2 NYFD 9/11 Memorial firefighter doll \xe2\x80\xa2 Orcaphant \xe2\x80\xa2 The Phantom\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Planet of the Apes \xe2\x80\xa2 Rocky and Bullwinkle \xe2\x80\xa2 Samaritan doll \xe2\x80\xa2 Savage Dragon \xe2\x80\xa2 Schlitzie and Lionel \xe2\x80\xa2 Shaft \xe2\x80\xa2 Small Soldiers\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Spawn \xe2\x80\xa2 Street Sharks \xe2\x80\xa2 Star Craft \xe2\x80\xa2 Starship Troopers \xe2\x80\xa2 Star Trek - Nemesis \xe2\x80\xa2 Stryker \xe2\x80\xa2 Violator \xe2\x80\xa2 Visitor \xe2\x80\xa2 Warcraft\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Warcraft 3\n[ WRITER / LECTURER ]\n\nTopic range: Digital 3D modeling, 3D design & manufacturing\n\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Featured speaker, Disney Feature Animation \xe2\x80\x9cOne of our own series - (Burbank, CA - 2005)\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Guest speaker on Maya character development at Cal Arts - 2005\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Guest speaker, 3D Festival/LEAF (London - 2002)\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Art of 3D computer animation and imaging book - (Contributing artist, 2002)\n\xe2\x80\xa2 2 day guest speaker/demo artist at Denver University, 2002\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Guest speaker, panelist and demo artist at the 3D Festival (Denmark and Sweden - 1999/2001)\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Guest speaker at Siggraph 2001, Newtek booth\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Guest panelist at the 3D Expo 2000\n\xe2\x80\xa2 3D Demo artist at MacWorld - 2000\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Guest speaker at Art Center, 1999\n\xe2\x80\xa2 EFX Art and Design Magazine (Associate Editor - 1998/2002)\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Mastering Pixels 3D book (Contributing writer, 2000)\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Pixels 3D Power User Tutorials (Co-author, 2000)\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Amazing Figure Modeler Magazine (Columnist, 1994/1996)\n[ EDUCATION ]\n\xe2\x80\xa2 B.F.A. Major: Illustration, Minor: Sculpture, Philadelphia University of the Arts, 1987\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Received \xe2\x80\x9cExceptional calibre\xe2\x80\x9d (highest level) in Special Makeup Effects Artistry in the Motion Picture Industry, 1988\n\nReferences available upon request\n\n5134 Oakdale Ave . Woodland Hills, C A 91364\n\nTel. 818-887-2585\n\ndan@solidimagear ts.com'