Chuck Eyler

Work History

• Freelance Interactive Art Director, Screenwriter

  Eyler Design

  September 2018 - Present

  Savannah, Georgia Area

  Available for Game Art contracts while writing Science Fiction screenplays
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  Instructor - Animation, Game Art & Design

  SAE Expression College

  March 2017 - Present

  Emeryville, CA

  Teaching The History of Games and Realtime 3D Modeling for the current term.
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  Art Director

  Disruptive Games

  October 2016 - February 2017

  Berkeley, CA

  Lead Art effort on an un-announced VR Game.
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  Art Director

  Electronic Arts

  October 2014 - June 2016

  Sacramento, California Area

  Art Director for EA Mobile Games
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  Adjunct Lecturer

  UC Santa Cruz

  March 2016 - May 2016

  Santa Cruz, California

  Visual Communication and Interactive Design Class - 10 weeks

• Head of Game Art

  Kidaptive, Inc.

  February 2014 - September 2014

  Managed internal and external art production of "Leo's Pad" IOS game and other IOS projects.
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  Art Director

  Disney Interactive Studios

  March 2011 - December 2013

  Assembled art teams and created world class art for social and mobile games with a keen awareness of platform performance limits. Coordinated the look for Star Wars Commander IOS.

• Art Director for Social Games

  PlayFirst

  March 2010 - April 2011

  Managed internal and external Art and Animation production for Chocolatier Sweet Society and Diner Dash for Facebook
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  Senior Artist

  PlayFirst

  September 2009 - March 2010

  Managed internal and external at resources plus personal contributions on a tight schedule for "Love and Death: Bitten" PC Download game
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  Contract UI and Animation Artist

  PlayFirst

  January 2009 - March 2009

  Designed Styled UI elements for the Avenue Flo game. Then did character layouts and animation planning for outsourced animation.

• Art Director

  Electronic Arts/Sims

  July 1996 - December 2008

  Directed art efforts on Sims Console games, "Bustin' Out", "Urbz", "Sims2 Console" "Sims2 Pets Console", "Sims2 Castaway" and "SimAnimals"

• Senior Animator

  Atari Games

  1989 - 1995

  The cool thing? You could suggest a spider robot for the enemy in the hall. The hard part? You then had to do all of the sprites for it. But you did get to do a death scene as part of that. Learned 3D modeling and animation here.

• Staff Animator

  Colossal Pictures

  1986 - 1988

  Animation of effects and characters for Rice Krispies, Disney Television, Fruit Bars, White Cloud and a Saturday Night Live animated short.
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  FX Animator

  Industrial Light & Magic

  1984 - 1986

  Did effects animation for Enemy Mine, Young Sherlock, Howard the Duck and InnerSpace. This was 22 field paper hand drawn effects days.

  

  

• Scene Animator "Twice Upon A Time"

  Korty/Lucasfilm

  1981 - 1982

  2D Animated Feature. Animated Mr. Mum, Ralph the All Purpose Animal and Greenie in various scenes.

• Animator

  Filmation

  1978 - 1980

  Fabulous Funnies, Tarzan, Mighty Mouse, Flash Gordon