2D Animator, Character Layout Artist
jett@artvaultz.com
Castlevania: Nocturne
• Also making adjustments to animation
Pantheon
Castlevania: Nocturne
• Redrawing characters in rough storyboard panels so that they are tight and on-model
Love, Death + Robots Vol.3 - "Kill Team Kill"
• 2nd key and tie-down animation
Pantheon
Freelance September-November 2020
• Also provided some pre-vis character designs, and draw-overs for animation
• Explored character expressions and special poses
• Assisted lead character designer with layouts and turnarounds
• Animated pencil tests for characters
• Design and illustrate characters based on given descriptions and references
• Generate character concept art, gestural examples, and color palettes for client as needed
• Reinforced training and helped foster/develop student understanding of the material
• Coached and motivated each student to more effectively train their mind and body together
• Lead and managed sections of the class in training different aspects of the art
• Designed and cut stencils for sinage and artwork to be sandblasted on glass, mirror, and stone
• Created renderings for previews of finished artwork based on given criteria
• Chiselled and sandblasted lettering into stone both on site, for installation, and for sample reviews
• 2D Hand-drawn Animation • Character Animation • Character Turnarounds/Expressions • Drawing • Digital Painting
• Clay Sculpture • Bookbinding • Screen/Woodblock Printing, Lithography, Intaglio • Wood/Metalworking • Stone Letter Carving • Mouldmaking/Casting • MIG/TIG Welding • Amateur furniture-making
• Clip Studio Paint • TVPaint • Toon Boom Storyboard Pro • Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro • LaTeX • Windows • MacOS • Unix • Microsoft Office Suite • Google Sheets, Forms, Apps Script • Javascript/P5js • Python • HTML/CSS • Arduino
• English - native language
• Danish - intermediate level
• Korean - beginner level
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Electronic & Time-based Media
Minor in Physical Computing
• Social History of Animation
• Expanding the Graphic Novel
• Experimental Game Design
• Chance Protocols - Procedural Animation
• Character Rigging for Production
• Human Machine Virtuosity
• Rapid Prototype Design
• Special topic: Rapid Prototyping technologies
• Introduction to Physical Computing
• Fundamentals of Programming and Computer Science
• Signals and Systems
• Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Calculus in 3D
• Machine Shop and Metrology
Natural Science Program (Mathematics and Computer Science)
• NIB First Semester Project Course:
"Speech-to-text: A Computer's Guide to the Human Language"
Co-written with: Bryan Houston and Samuel Otteskov
Studio Tonton - Amateur animation studio creating fan-made animation, following the Japanese animation pipeline
• Provided layout and key/2nd key animation
• Watch the Naruto Fan-made Opening here
Senior Thesis - Carnegie Mellon University
• Co-developed the story, characters, and imagery
• Created the storyboards, in-game illustrations, and animation
CMU School of Art Senior Exhibition
• Collaborated with a team to design the catalogues printed for the senior class' show
Experimental Game Design - Carnegie Mellon University
• Created the sprite animations and effects
• Wrote entire game from scratch in P5*js, while utilizing the P5.play library for sprite animation
• Included in "Priceless Play, 29 December 2018" on rockpapershotgun.com
Expanding the Graphic Novel – Carnegie Mellon University
• Developed a three-page comic in the given style, with each student's compiled into a book
• Printed and perfect-bound the books with a small team of the other classmates
NIB First Semester Project Course - Roskilde University
• Worked in a team to delve into the inner workings of ASR and how it is applied to solve certain problems we have in our society
• Created and ran ASR tests, analyzed mechanics and transmission of speech
• Learned and utilized LaTex to more neatly format our writings and figures
• Carnegie Mellon Pipes and Drums, snare drum | October 2017-present
• Band placed 1st, and won best drum corps, in the Grade 3 competition at the 2022 Norfolk, VA American Pipe Band Championships
• Astronomy Club
• Spring Carnival, AstroClub Booth | Lead artist, designer
• 1st place in Blitz Booth category | 2016, 2017
• Carnegie Mellon Pipes and Drums, snare drum
• Band placed 1st in Grade 3 competition at the 2019 Norfolk, VA American Pipe Band Championships
• Kiltie Band, percussion
• Tartan Wind Ensemble, percussion
• Københavns Roklub (Copenhagen's Rowing Club) | 2014, Denmark
• Soo Bahk Do, Moo Duk Kwan | 2004-2017
• Earned 2nd degree, black belt | Soo Bahk Do MDK Dan Testing, April 2016, NY
• First Place in age division for Hyung (Forms) | Soo Bahk Do National Festival Competition, 2010, NJ