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Education and Qualifications
Ramon Blake Guthrie
Digital Artist & 3D/2D Designer
Age: 32
Nationality: British
Birth place: London/England
•1999-2001 Newham College of F.E
HND in Graphic Design (Communications) (Distinction)
•1997-1999 Eastbury 6th form College
GNVQ Advanced Art & Design (Distinction)
•1996-1997 Eastbury 6th form College
GNVQ Intermediate Art & Design (Merit)
•1991-1996 Eastbury Comprehensive School: Six G.C.S.E Passes
Work Experience
Software Skills and Experience
FK3 June 20th 2011 (2 weeks freelance contract)
Roles: Flash Designer & Animation Artist
Duties:
• Reproduce a concept interactive presentation into a Flash animation to be used online training for SanDisk.
• Animation was constructed in After Effects, Flash CS and AS2 was used to call in the slides dynamically when requested for a low bandwidth, optimized web experience.
• Packages used for development are Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft PowerPoint, After Effects, Flash 5.5 and Actionscript 2
• URLs: www.fk3.biz
Sit-Up TV April 28th 2011 (2 days freelance contract)
Roles: Motion Graphics Artist & Compositor
Duties:
• Produced a stylish Promo TV ad with added voice over's to be aired on Bid-Up www.bid.tv
• Designed Logo and artwork for TV and Marketing campaigns.
• Packages used for development are Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and Premiere Pro.
• URLs: www.sit-up.tv
Crystal CG International December 10th 2010 (4 week freelance contract)
Roles: Senior Lighting & Animation Artist
Duties:
• Produced HD 3D animation fly-throughs for a sponsor of the London 2012 Olympics for Web / Tv campaigns using 3D Studio max, Vray & Vray RT.
• Advanced texturing & UV mapping.
• Advanced Lighting & Rendering (HDR, GI & Ambient Occlusion style rendering, Non-Linear, multi-pass rendering using Mental ray and Vray)
• Running a render farm, for producing animations with BackBurner.
• Packages used for development are 3D Studio max 2011, Vray 2.0, Mentalray, Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects.
• URLs: www.crystalcg.co.uk & www.keyframestudios.co.uk
XFace April 27th 2010 (4 Months contract)
Roles: GUI Artist & Graphic Designer
Duties:
• User Interface (UI) designs for navigations, layouts and buttons.
• Re-designed and produced a user-friendly company website template, www.xface.co.uk/stage/index.html WIP
• Producing concept designs, created animated logos & splash screens.
• Image editing and vector artwork design.
• Working with Microsoft Surface touch screen technology.
• Software and skills used in development was Photoshop, Illustrator, Firework, Dreamweaver, Flash, After Effects CS5 and Microsoft SilverLight.
• URLs www.xface.co.uk new layout coming soon!
Shimmer January 12th 2010 (4 Months freelance contract)
Roles: Head Web Designer
Duties:
• Designed and developed a fresh and funky website, for a brand new up and coming, female music artist called Shimmer.
• Updating and maintaining information on the website.
• Frontend and backend site development.
• Designed and developed new a Corporate Identity for Shimmer.
• Integrated streaming music, twitter feeds and media players.
• Software and skills used in development was Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver and CSS3.
• URLs: www.shimmerbaby.com
J.Snobbies Ltd June 2nd 2009 (6 Months contract)
Roles: Marketing Strategist & Lead Web Designer
Duties:
• Designed and developed a fresh and clean e-commerce website, for a new start-up company.
• Updating and maintaining information on the company’s website.
• Frontend and backend site development.
• Designed and developed new a Corporate Identity for J.Snobbies
• Designed business cards, leaflets, posters, letterheads and ads.
• Planning marketing PR strategies with the company, street promotion, handouts, organised events.
• Software and skills used in development was Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver and CSS3.
• URLs: www.jsnobbies.com or www.jsnobbies.co.uk
CityScape Ltd June 23rd 2004 (5 years permanent contact)
Role: Last position: Advanced Lighting & Texturing Artist
Duties:
• Low / High polygon modelling and organic modelling using 3D Studio max, LightWave and Zbrush.
• Advanced Lighting & Rendering, (HDR, GI, Toon & Ambient Occlusion style rendering using FPrime, Mental ray, Vray and Maxwellrender)
• Advanced texture & UV mapping (Normal Mapping, Relief Mapping & texture Baking)
• Camera matching to 3D scenes.
• Produced 3D animation fly-throughs for clients using 3D Studio max and LightWave.
• In charge of animation game research and development (Serious Gaming, 3D internet Game Engines).
• Worked with some incredible developers like Candy & Candy, Land Securities & British Land and with some of the world's most influential architects such as Make, Zaha Hadid, KPF, Ian Simpson, Foster + Partner, Terry Farrell and Partners & Fletcher Priest.
• Blended Digital photography with 3D to produce photo real solutions.
• In charge of running a render farm, for producing animations and large print marketing stills (Butterfly NetRender & BackBurner)
• In charge of image and photo manipulation, retouching and art working.
• Designed, aided and produced maps, plans and business documents.
• Packages used for development are 3D Studio max, LightWave, Modo, Zbrush, Vray, Maxwellrender, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver and InDesign.
• URLs: www.cityscapedigital.co.uk
Stimulus Ltd January 2004 (4 Months contract)
Roles: Head Web & Graphic Designer
Duties:
• Designed and developed a fresh and funky web site, for a new start-up company.
• Designed and developed new a Corporate Identity for Stimulus.
• Designed business cards, leaflets, posters, letterheads and ads.
• Web site development.
• Packages used for development were Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady, Flash MX and Dreamweaver.
• URLs: www.stimuluspromo.co.uk
Churston Heard Ltd August 2003 (3 Months contract)
Roles: Art worker & Retouch Designer
Duties:
• Designed and produced maps, plans, business documents and brochures.
• In charge of image and photo manipulation, retouching and art working.
• In charge of Reprographics and Printer maintenance
• Used advanced machinery for collating documentation.
• Organising deliveries and Stock.
• Packages used for development were Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Office, Quark Xpress and Adobe Acrobat/Writer.
• URLs: www.churstonheard.co.uk
Bluething Ltd (website & database design, network support & hosting) June 2003
Roles: Web Designer & Art worker
Duties:
• Designed and developed a corporate professional fresh web site, for a new
start-up company.
• Web site development.
• Having a strong bond with the company I also help to produce sites from other company linked within Bluething.
• Designed a new Corporate Identity for Integer and www.bluething.co.uk
• Packages used for development were 3D studio max, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, ImageReady, Firework and Dreamweaver.
• URLs: www.bluething.co.uk
Yourdiggs (I.T Solutions) May 2002 (7 Months contract)
Roles: Lead Web & Graphic Designer
Duties:
• Designed and developed corporate professional fresh web sites for a small
start-up company.
• Designed business cards, letterheads and ads.
• Designed and developed new Corporate Identities for Yourdiggs.
• Packages used for development were Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady and Dreamweaver.
• URLs: www.yourdiggs.com
Freeman Business Information plc July 2001 (10 Months)
Roles: Junior Web & Graphic Designer
Duties:
• Web site development.
• Designed banners for the new look sites www.freemansnews.com,
www.freemansshop.co.uk and www.freemansguide.com.
• Designed a variety of ads with different styles and looks.
• Produced ads with a corporate fill but with elements of fun in the design.
• Designed a new Corporate Identity for www.freemansguideplus.com.
• Packages used for development were Photoshop, ImageReady, Dreamweaver and Flash.
• URLs: www.efreeman.co.uk
Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe ImageReady CS, Fireworks CS5, Adobe Illustrator CS5, Painter 9 and SketchBook.
Multimedia/Web Design: Flash CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, ActionScript 2, CSS3 and Java.
3D modelling & Animation: 3D Studio Max r8/2011(MentalRay, Vray, Vray RT, Maxwellrender, finalRender, Brazil and Swift3D max plugins), LightWave 9.6 (fPrime) Maya 2006, Zbrush 3 and Modo.
Desktop Publishing: InDesign CS, QuarkXpress5, Adobe Acrobat/Writer, Microsoft Office, Open Office, Blogger, Tumblr and WordPress.
Video editing & effects: After Effects CS5, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, Composite, Quicktime Pro, Cubasis and Apple Logic.
Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/7 and Mac OS9/0SX.
Workplace Experience: Retouching & Matte Painting, Web Design (HTML, CSS3, Flash, XML, PHP, jQuery & Java), Logo Design, Illustrating, Package design, 3D Lighting & Rendering, Texturing/Surface Baking & UV mapping, 3D/2D Animation, Motion Graphics, Game Engines (Unreal Ed 3, CryEngine 3 beta and Unity 3), RenderFarm management (ButterflyNetRender(BNR) & BacKBurner), Digital Photography, Wacom Tablet, Printing, Computer Hardware troubleshooting and Installation Experience.
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