Nance Paternoster • Resume
Digital Artist • Compositor • Instructor • 503 • 621 • 1073
OBJECTIVE:
Digital Compositing, Motion Graphics & Special Effects Animation
Creating Digital Art & Animated Sequences
Teaching in an Animation Department at an Art School
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:
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;
Pratt Brooklyn, 1985
Center for Electronics Arts, S.F., CA 1988-1989
COMPUTER GRAPHIC EQUIPMENT
Platforms - Mac/SGI/PC
Software - Flame, After Effects
Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, Quark
Some - Maya, Max, Lightwave, Soft Image
Xaos Tools - Pandemonium, NTITLE
Some - Avid, Final Cut, Premiere
Amazon Paint 2D/3D, PIRANHA
Unix, Dos, + Some C++, Pascal, Fortran, Javascript , HTML
Additional
Photography, Stereo Photography. Analog and Digital Video editing, Film editing.
RELATED WORK:
Art Institute of Portland - Adjunct Faculty VEMG/DFV Depts. - Present
Pacific Northwest College of Art - Adjunct Faculty - Present
Art Institutes Online - Adjunct Faculty - Present
Art Institutes Online- Full Time Faculty - Animation Department - 2006-2007
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 Artis - 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
& 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 technique
in such programs as Painter(MAC), (SGI)Wavefront, 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 - Teacher’s Assistant - (film Dept..)
Teaching Animation on an Amiga Computer – 1991
Center for Electronic Arts -Teacher’s Assistant – 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
