nathania@nathania.com 650-302-0639

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Foster City, CA 94404

July 2003 - Present:
Lighter - PDI/Dreamworks
3D feature animation CGI lighting on Shrek 2 and Madagascar. Additional work included integration lighting and compositing of Donkey and Shrek into several HP commercials, several Honey Nut Cherrios full CG commercials for overseas markets, helping with development of training materials, teaching advanced lighting classes, and mentoring of new hires, including CG supervisors on various projects.

June 2000 - July 2003:
Training Specialist - PDI/Dreamworks
Train new hires and current employees on PDI/Dreamworks proprietary software, including the lighting tool. Taught special classes on the aesthetics of lighting at PDI/Dreamworks, and classes on proprietary 3D painting and lighting tools at the Dreamworks facility in Glendale. Responsible for curriculum development for all departments at PDI/Dreamworks and collaborating on curriculum development for Dreamworks at Glendale training on PDI proprietary software. Act as Job TD and mentor for new hires. Manage the Training Department production tree.

October 1997 - June 2000:
Assistant Technical Lighter - Pacific Data Images
3D feature animation CGI lighting on Antz and Shrek. Additional work included 2D effects for the feature film Forces of Nature, collaborating with R&D on the testing of new shaders, helping with development of training materials, and mentoring of new hires.

Autumn 1995 - Autumn 1996:
Graduate Research Associate - Department of Art, The Ohio State University.
Assisted in curriculum development of courses implementing computer use in the studio arts. Rated 3D modeling and animation software for the Macintosh. Developed and taught an experimental class in digital image processing and web based art work including training in HTML. Taught faculty workshops on digital video, image processing, and 3D computer animation and modeling.

Autumn 1994 - Autumn 1995:
Graduate Teaching Associate - Department of Art, The Ohio State University.
Solo instructorn for Special Projects Lab, an alternative media course, which included the following areas of research at different times: performance, installation, video art and computer based art. Assisted in teaching: Figure Drawing, Figure Painting, Holography.

Autumn 1992 - Autumn 1994:
Graduate Teaching Associate - Department of Plant Biology, The Ohio State University.
Assisted in teaching Biology 101, Plant Biology 101 and 102. Also produced computer graphics for Plant Biology slide lectures.

Autumn 1989 - Autumn 1990:
User consultant for Macintosh lab - Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University.

UNIX / Linux platform: Proprietary PDI and ACCAD software, Alias, some Maya, Houdini, Composer, Procedural Animation in a Scheme based programming environment.

Macintosh platform: Photoshop, Painter, Premiere. Starting as a beta tester for Cinema4D

While not an avid programmer, I have some familiarity with the following programing languages: tcsh, C, HTML, Pascal, Perl, Renderman Shader Language, Scheme.

Master of Fine Arts in the Media Arts / Art & Technology program,
1997 The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design at
The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio. Concentrations in
3D Computer Animation / Graphics, Interactive, and Installation Art.

Currently reviewing ACCAD Graduate Student Projects via the web at the Ohio State University.

Reviewer for Envisioning the Future Art Show at SIGGRAPH 99.
"The Envisioning..." show was part of the special exhibit "Pathways to the Future" to celebrate the SIGGRAPH Organization's 30th year.

Presented a talk on the making of Antz and a personal presentation on job search skills at Cogswell College.

Published a review of the 1998 International Symposium of the Electronic Arts in the British art journal "make" and in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac.

Dream Science '97 Computer Graphics Grand Prix in STEC, Tokyo, Prize, 1997.

Award for service from pARTners for the Arts and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, 1996.

Dream Science '96 Computer Graphics Grand Prix in STEC, Tokyo, Prize, 1996.

Edith Gilmore Memorial Fellowship Grant, The Ohio State University, 1995.

Samual G. Rosenberg Award for Sculpture, Carnegie Mellon University, 1990.

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