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Eric Knisley
1001-B Virgie St. Durham, NC 27705
(919) 491-7406
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1/96-1/06 |
Elumens
Corporation Lead Animator Technical Coordinator/Sales
Engineer 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 5/93-5/95 |
Ventana Communications |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| Education | 1979-1981 | Mars Hill College
Mars Hill, NC Majors: Art, Music |
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| 1982-1984 | UNC-Chapel Hill Chapel
Hill, NC Majors: English, History |
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| 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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