John Emurai
(714)235-9592 cell
jemurai@yahoo.com
www.discover3d.com

Objective
To work for a company that will allow me to fully explore and utilize my creativity and skills using modeling, texturing, and animation.
I believe that I can contribute to your company’s success.

Skills
Alias | Wavefront Maya
• Extensive experience with organic & industrial design modeling in Subdivision, Polygon Surfaces and   NURBS.
• Working knowledge of rigged characters, including set-up and bind skin in conjunction with particles
• Worked with dynamics and automating render pass set-up.
Organic & Character Modeling
• Designed characters working from my own original concept sketches
• Extensive background in life-drawing and in knowledge of human anatomy.
• Built creatures and characters in Alias|Wavefront Maya using multi-patch NURBS modeling, Subdivision surfaces and Texture Mapping.
• Expert user ofAdobe Photoshop.
• Can apply my traditional art skills to create original realistic texture maps, and also manipulate and process digitized surfaces into custom maps.
• Experienced at applying and adjusting custom color, displacement, bump, specularity and other types of maps using Maya and Mental Ray.
Compositing
• Highly-skilled in compositing applications such as Adobe AfterEffects, Adobe Premiere and Finalcut Pro to render in 3D applications such as Maya,Max, Xsi,AutoCAD, Mudbox and Z-brush, etc.

Work Experience
(09/2007 – 05/2009) Contractor Freelance: Create characters from scratch, rigging, textures, and lighting, animating, render into Tv Commercials and build web page.

(08/2004 - 12/2008) Dominican University of California 50 Acacia Avenue San Rafael, ca 94901-2298
Faculty: Have taught several classes of Maya every semester since January, 2004, including Modeling, TD Rigging, Animating and Zbrush, After Effects, Adobe Photoshop.

(09/2005 – 08/2006) Expression College for Digital Arts 6601 Shellmound St Emeryville , CA 94608
Faculty: Have assisted in teaching several classes of Maya, Modeling, TD Rigging, Animating, and After Effects, Adobe Photoshop.

(04/2005 – 07/2007)  Michael Sechman and Associates, Inc. 10 Orinda Way Orinda, CA 94563
Architect firm Graphics Production
Translated 2D architectural drawings into 3D models using Auto-CAD and 3D Studio Max.
Created and applied various effects to 3D architectural renderings.

(12/2005 – 12/2005)  Compumatics Computer Training Center 822 S. Robertson Blvd., #207 Los Angeles, CA 90035
4 days Faculty 12/05

(09/2004 – 05/2005)  Contractor 9/ 04 - 1/5/05
(09/2005 – 06/2008)  Contractor 5/07 - Freelance: Have built characters from scratch, rigging, textures, and animating, render them into adagio acrobatic dance.

(05/2004 – 12/2004) The 3DO Company Inc. 600 Galveston Drive Redwood City, CA 94063-4746
Graphic Artist 5/03 to 10/03
For the Games; Modeling Environments, Characters.

Education
B.A. - Computer Video Imaging Cogswell Polytechnical College, Sunnyvale, CA 2003
A.A. Computer Animation Mount San Antonio College, Pomona, CA 1999