Award winning table top gaming company. https://www.zombiesmith.com
Several books published: This Quar's War, Songs of Our Ancestors, Of Spats and Pedrails, Tales of the Breach, War of Ashes: Shieldwall and War of Ashes: Shieldbash.
Several hundred unique figures sold (in pewter): Quar, War of Ashes, Misc Sci-fi, Misc Fantasy, Zombies and Flytrap Factory's lines.
Co-Founder
Steel Wool Games
October 2012 - February 2019
Duct-tape.
Developing our own IPs for mobile, console and PC with a whole bunch of work-for-hire sprinkled in!
Recently released: Flyhunter Origins on the iOS app store, Google Play and PC/Mac Steam!
Instructor
Ex'pression College
January 2010 - July 2015
Instructor for Reel Pro 1 and Reel Pro 2. Mentoring of students completing their final senior projects for their demo reels.
Technical Director
Pixar
1997 - 2013
Films:
The Good Dinosaur - Modeling and Shading
Brave - Modeling and Shading
Partly Cloudy - Modeling, Shading and Painting
Burn-e - Modeling and Shading and Painting
Wall-e - Shading and Painting
Ratatouille - Shading
Lifted - Shading and Painting
One Man Band - Shading and Painting
Boundin' - Shading
Pixar Shorts Dept:
Misc. Short Projects, Commercials, Oscars, and Theme Park Related projects.
Nemo Seas (Epcot Attraction) - Integration of Digital Assets and Practical Sets
Nemo Submarine Ride (Disneyland Attraction) - Integration of Digital Assets and Practical Sets
Turtle Talk - (Epcot Attraction) - Building of real time Nemo assets for interactive experience.
Knick-Knack - Remaster and conversion to widescreen
Oscars - Comping of Pixar characters into various live action sequences
Commercials - Too many to count.
MOMA Exhibit, NY, NY - Artscape multimedia wall for Museum of Modern Art world tour.
Pixar University - Internal education of existing employees, interns and liaison to outside interests.
Courses include:
Renderman Shading Class - One week class taught to incoming interns and residents. Also taught as refresher to prior shading TDs and lighting TDs.
"Class Day" Lecturer - Provided 4 classes per day of 30+ Emery Ed Fund donors a lesson on how animated films are made. Annual event.
IT Dept -
Monsters Inc - IT
Toy Story 2 - IT
A Bug's Life - IT
