NANCE PATERNOSTER
Compositor/FX Artist/Animator/Instructor
OBJECTIVE:
Teaching in an Animation Department at an Art School
Digital Compositing. Special Effects Animation
OBJECTIVE:
Teaching in an Animation Department at an Art School
Digital Compositing. Special Effects Animation
Creating Digital Art & Animated Sequences
EDUCATION:
EDUCATION:
MA 1993 - San Francisco State University
Masters in Computer & Film Animation/Video Disk Technology
BFA 1984 - Syracuse University: Syracuse, New York
Art Media Program: Computer Graphics Major/College of Visual & Performing Arts
(Film, Video, Photo. & Computer Graphics/Programming - Fine Art Emphasis)
Additional Computer Graphics Training:
Additional Computer Graphics Training:
Art Institute of Portland - Maya Courses
Academy of Art College 1994
Pratt Institute, N.Y., NY 1985
The School of Visual Art, NY 1984
N.Y. Institute of Technology 1984-1985
Center for Electronics Arts, S.F., CA 1988-1989
COMPUTER GRAPHIC EQUIPMENT
Platforms - Mac/SGI/PC
Software - Flame, After Effects, Combustion
Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, Quark
Maya, Max, Lightwave, Soft Image
Xaos Tools - Pandemonium, NTITLE
Avid, Final Cut, Premiere
Amazon Paint 2D/3D, PIRANHA
Unix, Dos, some C++, Pascal, Fortran, Javascript , HTML
Additional
Analog and Digital Video editing, Film editing. Photography.npaternoster@yahoo.com
COMPUTER GRAPHIC EQUIPMENT
Platforms - Mac/SGI/PC
Software - Flame, After Effects, Combustion
Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, Quark
Maya, Max, Lightwave, Soft Image
Xaos Tools - Pandemonium, NTITLE
Avid, Final Cut, Premiere
Amazon Paint 2D/3D, PIRANHA
Unix, Dos, some C++, Pascal, Fortran, Javascript , HTML
Additional
Analog and Digital Video editing, Film editing. Photography.npaternoster@yahoo.com
RELATED WORK:
Art Institutes Online - Full Time Faculty - Animation Department - Present
Art Institute of Portland - Adjunct Faculty - DMP Department Teaching Motion Graphics - Present
Art Institute of Portland - Full Time Faculty - Animation Department Teaching Compositing, Motion Graphics, Special FX Animation, Advanced Image Manipulation, Digital Paint, Independent Study for Senior Animation Students, & Digital Portfolio (2000 - 2005).
Art Institutes Online - Adjunct Faculty - Game Art & Design Department Teaching Digital Ink
& Paint Online, 2D Animation, Image Manipulation. Present
Will Vinton Studios - Portland, Oregon, - Flame Artist- Compositor/Special FX Artist The Pjs
Prime Time Stop Motion Television show on Fox. Freelance TV Commercials. Compositing
3D models and 2d-plates, Creating Special FX animations, 2d animated sequences (1997 - 2000).
College of the Redwoods - Eureka, CA. - Associate Faculty - Teaching Digital Painting & Drawing, Photo-retouching, Animation & Multi-Media (1996 - 1997).
Tippett Studio - Berkeley CA - Digital Paint Artist - Digitally Painted Photo Realistic Texture maps, Displacement maps & Command Files for CG Models for the Feature Film Starship Troopers.
Used Soft Image to generate matching views for the physical models. (12/95 - 2/96)
Danger Productions - Brisbane, CA - Digital Effects Animator - for Bump in the Night - Created Digital Art and Animated Sequences. Compositing Stop Motion Animation with Computer Animated Sequences. Special Effects generation ( 8/94 - 10/95).
Xaos Tools Inc. - S.F., CA. - Freelance Artist - Web Site creation, Interface design, tutorial development for SGI and Mac based products & various software testing ( 4/96 - 11/96).
Danger Productions - Brisbane, CA & Time Warner Interactive - Milpitas, CA. - Freelance Instructor (8/94-10/94).
Academy of Art College - SF, CA.- Digital Art/Animation Teacher - Teaching Paint,
Rotoscoping & Animation techniques in such programs as Painter (MAC), Wavefront (SGI), Pandemonium, Ntitle, Composer, Amazon Paint, etc. ( 6/93- 12/94).
Copy Central - San Francisco, CA. Desktop publishing artist. Creation of all clients jobs for desktop publishing department (1990-1992).
Wacom & Fractal Design - Demo Artist - Various Trade Shows 1993 - present
San Francisco State University - Graduate Assistant - (Creative Arts)
Iris/Wavefront software & Macintosh Texture Generation & Conversion 1992
San Francisco State University - TA - (film Dept.)
Teaching Animation on an Amiga Computer - 1991
Center for Electronic Arts -TA - S.F., CA
Assisting students & operations managers - 1989
Genigraphics - S.F. , CA - Production Manager Computer Graphic Still Creation House) In charge of production flow, scheduling, deliveries, etc. 1988 Shift Leader & Console Artist
Genigraphics - NY Creating, processing & delivering work to clients. Responsibility for work flow (1985 - 1987).
Center for Electronic Arts -TA - S.F., CA
Assisting students & operations managers - 1989
Genigraphics - S.F. , CA - Production Manager Computer Graphic Still Creation House) In charge of production flow, scheduling, deliveries, etc. 1988 Shift Leader & Console Artist
Genigraphics - NY Creating, processing & delivering work to clients. Responsibility for work flow (1985 - 1987).
