Corey Dimond

Work History

• Freelance Motion Graphics Designer

  Golden

  November 2014 - February 2015
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  Lead Motion Graphics Artist

  Big Machine

  April 2014 - October 2014

  Design, Modeling, Animation, and Rendering for various projects for clients including NFL, Disney, Nat Geo.

• Motion Graphics Designer

  Ketchum Labs

  May 2013 - April 2014

  My core responsibilities are to produce content for Adapt Courseware which is similar to a Massive Online Open Course or MOOC but differentiates itself in that we pride ourselves in higher production values and a disruptive distribution model.
  In addition, I produce graphics for the many varied projects at Ketchum in a multitude of styles.

• Ticket seller / checker / customer service

  Taos Ski Valley, Inc.

  November 2012 - April 2013

  I took a season off from animating and designing to catch as many powder days as possible. It was a once in a life time thing if you're lucky like me.
  Some accomplishments while there:
  I was
  cross-trained across every position,
  selected to represent the department on the company safety committee,
  promoted and asked to return,
  and I had almost 70 days on my snowboard.
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  Animation Contractor

  Mousetrappe

  September 2012 - October 2012

  Capture the Magic at Walt Disney World.
  Lucky to be a part of the team at Mousetrappe.

• Animation Contractor

  Trance Designs

  August 2012 - September 2012

  Schematics and animations for Nat Geo's 21st Century Warships.
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  Lead Artist

  possible productions

  January 2011 - July 2012

  Awesome company doing what no one else is doing, combining music and visuals to create pure spectacle.
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  Animator

  Sony Computer Entertainment America

  January 2011 - November 2011

  I started on the tail end of Infamous 2 as a facial animator using Maya. On the next project, Uncharted 3 I was a body animator cleaning up Mocap and interactions with props and environments. It was a last minute scramble to meet the deadline. I think the team did a great job of packing that much work into that little amount of time. I think I did a pretty fantastic job considering the circumstances.
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  CG generalist

  POSSIBLE

  September 2010 - January 2011

  I came on as one of the first employees for this company in a tiny office in Burbank, CA. I was a part of some growing pains that has now landed them in one of the coolest places to work in LA, The Brewery. While I was with them I helped work on Projects for Target, GM, DeadMau5, Gatorade with Lupe Fiasco, Common and Jessica Huston as well as their in house indie short IP Ticky. Very cool guys at Possible.
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  Animator

  The Famous Group

  December 2010 - December 2010

  I came in the week before Christmas. It seemed like everyone was in last minute panic mode with only 2 months left to go on the project. Which coming off my last project makes me wonder why this project never made it to its target. 2 months seems like an eternity. Anyway, I already had plans to go home on that day before Christmas eve so I went home and that was it for me on the project. I animated Lexus Cars and Cameras for that week prior. It rained constantly in LA that week. Just non stop.

• Graveyard Render Wrangler

  Troika Design Group

  August 2010 - August 2010

  Helped get renders through overnight for a big job. Nice and easy.
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  Facial Motion Editor

  Wētā FX

  December 2007 - June 2010

  Faces. I do faces. Contributed to well over 200 shots in the film Avatar.
  Solved the facial on over 100 hero shots, involving keyframing facial poses in a shot and polishing them before passing them on to Animation.
  Animated facial on background characters on over 100 shots with as many as 130 characters in a shot.
  Worked with proprietary software for solving and tracking as well as Maya on the Linux platform on a dual quad-core 16 MB machine.
  Helped pipeline setup for the upcoming animated feature Tintin.
  Helped run and implement a Life Drawing class for fellow co-workers

  

• Animator

  Greenpeace 2007

  October 2007 - October 2007

  Animator
  Animated a map outlining climate change. It featured tracking into various locations in New Zealand to show the potential devastation.
  Created 3d and motion graphics showing what is climate change featuring particle effects, Mental Ray and After Effects.
  Fumes TV 2007(commissioned artworks)
  Illustrator
  Illustrated three posters for use New Zealand TV3's Wasted about conserving our waste.
  Painted a large map of the world with artist Pritika Lal.

• Animator

  NZVFX

  August 2007 - September 2007

  Worked on a 5 week contract for Canon Cameras at Digital Post.
  Animator
  Worked with a team as a Maya Generalist on an international Canon commercial for Digipost and Underpants TV
  Modeled, textured and rendered a virtual New York and modeled a fictional penthouse, some lighting phenomena i.e. caustics. Mental Ray, ambient occlusion and Final Gather.

• Animator

  Deep Animation

  August 2006 - June 2007

  For the majority of the time I was at Deep Animation (deepanimation.co.nz) our focus was on a training simulator for doctors and nurses. See govirtualmedical.com I also worked on TV spots and TVCs.

• Animator

  Shoko

  August 2006 - September 2006

  This was my first 3d contract where I was given the brief: Create from scratch a realistic charcter like "Max Headroom" and animate two and a half minutes of lip sync in five weeks for a business confrence. I finished the animation on time and as I was burning it to DVD I got the call that the main sponser pulled the plug and the show was canceled. It was never used but I was still compensated. This was for mayoral candidate Lisa Prager.