Resume

Ev Religioso - Cinematic Artist & Animator

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Senior Cinematic Coordinator - Unannounced Title - Volition Inc.

  • Long range cinematic planning - schedules, outsourcing
  • Formulate overall cinematic art style
  • Help develop and adapt new pipelines to fit cinematic needs
  • Research of new tools and scripts to assist with cinematic creation
  • Utilize After Effects for concept work for full screen effects and transitions

Cinematic Video Editor, Red Faction Guerrilla - Volition Inc.

  • Collaborating with THQ marketing to capture, direct and edit dynamic footage and screenshots
  • Utilize Adobe Premiere CS3 to edit, capture, and compress in-game footage to be sent to THQ.
  • Modify existing in-game settings such as time of day, lighting angle, FX, character placement and animation combined with cinematography to successfully create a cinematic look for screenshots.

Senior Cinematic Lead, Saints Row 2 - Volition Inc.

  • Managed / Planned Cinematic Artists’ schedules
  • Assisted development and implementation of pipelines to improve cinematic creation time
  • Oversaw outsourcing documentation, critique, and management
  • Organized input from Tech Artists, Project Managers, and Artists to create a feasible cinematic outsourcing pipeline while maintaining functionality with other asset pipelines
  • Directed camerawork and timing for animatics
  • Timed out audio dialogue, created storyboards and animatics, cleaned up / tweaked mocap.
  • Directed cinematic mocap shoots.
  • Lit and directed lighting for cinematics- per camera shot, per time of day
  • Involved with editing and shot choice from cinematics for web trailers.
  • Coordinated various tech artists and cinematic artists to handle exporting scenes into game in a short time period to meet audio outsourcer demand for in game video captures

Cinematic Artist & Animator, Saints Row - Volition Inc.

  • Timed out audio dialogue, created storyboards and animatics, cleaned up / tweaked mocap
  • Directed cinematic mocap shoot.
  • Lit cutscenes for various times of day.
  • Collaborated with tech artists and programmers to simplify and optimize the cinematic pipeline.
  • Polished lighting and optimized cinematics.

Cinematic Artist & Animator, The Punisher - Volition Inc.

  • Hand-animated interrogation sequences and looping animations
  • Created storyboards and combined mocap with hand animation to create cutscenes.
  • Edited footage for web spot commercial.
  • Worked extensively with programmers to implement or improve animation systems.

Specialties

Film background, storyboarding / animatic experience, character hand-animation, mocap direction / cleanup, lighting for cinematics. Additional experience in human anatomy and physiology, kinesiology. Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Photoshop CS4, After Effects CS4 3DS Max & Character Studio, Combustion, Sony Vegas, Microsoft Word & Excel

Education

  • Rochester Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Fine Arts: Film and Animation. May 2003. Cumulative GPA 3.95
  • D’Youville College, School of Physical Therapy, 1996-1999. Cumulative GPA: 3.93

Honors

  • Recent screenings for animated shorts: Ojai Film Festival (Jury Animation Award), Texas Film Fest (Best Animated Short), Downstream Film Fest, International Student Film Festival Hollywood, TechTV Cable Channel, Temecula Valley International Film Festival, Tulsa Overground Film Festival
  • Golden Key International Honor Society, 2003
  • RIT Award for Outstanding Undergraduate
  • Dean’s List 1996-2003