Knisley Website Resume

Eric Knisley
1001-B Virgie St. Durham, NC 27705
(919) 491-7406


Experience	1/96-1/06	Elumens Corporation (Formerly Alternate Realities Corporation) Lead Animator Directed and produced numerous animations for use in demoing the VisionDome, Elumens’ 3D display system. Served as lead animator, writer, editor, director and producer for major presentations shown at SIGGRAPH 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003, and the IITSEC show in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Technical Coordinator/Sales Engineer Worked with clients to enable their digital content for use in the VisionDome. Duties included reworking existing animation and real-time datasets, as well as creating new animation and data from scratch. Personally rescued several challenging sales, including a large multiple order to the Federal Department of Energy, and tough sells to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and to the Army’s Advanced Research Lab. Traveled the world as a Sales Engineer, helping Elumens clients resolve their technical issues.
	5/95-6/97	Mind In Motion Multimedia Art Director Duties included 3D and 2D animation and design, information design, project management and general art direction. While at MiM, I designed and created animation for CD-ROMs, web sites graphics, advertising and promo material and full-scale real-time immersive 3D environments.
	5/93-5/95	Ventana Communications Multimedia Developer Duties included design and implementation of web sites, creation of 2D and 3D design and animation for CD-ROMs and technical editing.
	4/88-4/93	Quali-T’s Master Printer/Artist Duties included creation of hundreds of original T-shirt designs, project management, printing and sales. Work was accomplished with both traditional design tools and their digital cousins.
	Always	Freelance Graphics Created innumerable designs in a plethora of media, including art for business cards, T-shirts, CD-ROM and record covers, magazine ads, newspapers, comic books, animated film etc. etc.
Skills		Design/Art Cartooning, layout, design, storyboards, character design, low-and high-polygon count modeling, animation, airbrush art, environment design, narrative, freehand drawing and sketching, conceptual design, storytelling, sound and video editing. Project Management I know how to plan and manage projects at the tactical level. I believe in careful, thorough planning. Software Expert: 3DS MAX, Photoshop, Painter, CorelDraw, trueSpace, Nendo, Bryce, LightScape, Detailer, Poser, ACID and Cosmo Worlds as well as many of the plugins and utilities for those programs. Pretty Darn Good I’m well versed in Windows NT, 95, 98 and 2000. I’ve also used DeBabelizer, Lightwave 3D, Ray Dream Design Studio, Media Cleaner Pro, Cool Edit Pro and AutoDesk Animator.
Education	1979-1981	Mars Hill College Mars Hill, NC Majors: Art, Music
	1982-1984	UNC-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC Majors: English, History
Style		Ironic, fun-loving, hard-working perfectionist.
Honors		Beta tester for 3DS MAX 1.0, Eye Candy 3.0, trueSpace 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0, Interchange 5.0, OpenSpace 3D 1.0 and Character Studio 1.0. Caligari Corporation’s “Animation of the Month” for 3D animation, 10/96. Xeric Award winner for Flavor-Contra Comix and Stories, an independent comic book, 10/95.

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