Shawn Smith

• Interact with clients and faculty on a daily basis pertaining to production needs • Oversee and or assist video and or audio production when events are scheduled for live/higher profile/closed set shoots • Ensure that productions run smooth for clients and for KIS Media Services • Assist with production calendar updates on a daily basis • Time Management for production pipeline, while editing multiple projects • Asset management for final shoots on an individual and Multi-Project basis • Assist with maintaining and organizing equipment for both audio and video • Research and make suggestions for software updates/plug-ins/equipment etc. • Proactively identify risks and issues to production schedules; formulate and implement solutions for overcoming/resolving. • Working with clients and staff ranging from Joe Heinrich CEO of FORD Motor Company to Sally Blount The Dean of Kellogg and former Dean Don Jacobs • Working cameras and audio mixers for live production events. • Setting up classroom recordings for lecture and panel discussions. This was involving but not limited to, Cameras, Wireless Microphones, Audio Mixers, etc. • Capturing laptop/classroom sessions via VLC or Screen Flow for final edits • Design Motion Graphics/3D Animation/etc. on an as needed basis • Ingesting raw footage and providing rough cuts to final edits for clients • Recording and editing live, studio and closed set audio tracks for final production and output • Creation of deliverables for clients in multiple formats. From Data CD-R/DVD-R to digital files • Responsible for uploading final edits to Media Site Broadcast Platform

• Created on air concepts, mock-ups/pitch spots, radio spots and corporate videos. • Designed and implemented final edits for Local and Regional TV commercials. • Led project teams in completing work on-time and on-budget both as a lead artist and independent • Managed schedules for production pipeline, while editing and designing multiple projects through the development process from initial design to on air and or client possession. • Proactively identified risks and issues to production schedules; formulated and implemented solutions for overcoming/resolving. • Developed and executed asset management program. • Developed/Designed/Modified over 70 different TV spots (to date) for clients.

On set technical direction for all necessary background plates and foreground assets. Responsible for all post production needs for and creation of all assets for visual effects for said shots. Driving sequences, compositing, CGI, trakcing, etc.

- Report to Director of Marketing, V.P. of Sales and or Owner of Company - Responsible for maintaining and scheduling projects. - Created detailed schedules/timelines for production pipeline/time management - Oversee incoming artwork for reproduction or modification and approve resolution, format and colors - Critique and Mentor artists for general art direction and or changes - Direct contact with clients for art needs on a per project basis - Brought 3D Design to company work flow via Lightwave 3D for print purposes and designs - Created and implemented a process to design, render, color correct and output 3D files for Hi-res., large format printing - Re-designed 2 company vehicles for fleet graphic concepts via 3D design - Created and implemented designs for Clients such as Miller Brewing, McDonald's, BP Amoco, Allied Waste, Serta, Interstate Batteries, Primo Water, Knudsen Dairy, Smuckers Jams and Jellies, Chiquita, Roadway/Yellow Freight, American Appliances, MacLane Food Distributors, VERA WANG, Abbott Labs, Builder's First Source, etc. - Initiated "NEW" Logo Re-Design for MacLane Food Distributors via 3D concept and rendering for 53' tractor trailers - Worked with the head of procurement of NEW TECHNOLOGIES for Miller Brewing Sandi Gallo for NEW Miller 3D designs of entire fleet - Setup basic directory structure/naming convention to better organize art files, both new and legacy files - Worked with and created/modified Style/Application Guides for BP/Amoco, Miller Brewing, McDonald’s, Serta, etc.

- Direct report to Art Director of Department for final approval of art assets. - Created and implemented artwork, and animations for over a dozen games over four years. - Responsible for creating storyboard concepts, character, designs, and feature mockups. - Managed schedules for production pipeline, while overseeing multiple projects from initial design, to the casino floor. - Proactive responses to thinking ahead so as to ward off any problems that might arise in production schedules. Such as software issues, space issues, asset management, general time constraints, team/artist assignments and general man hour management. - Creation of game design documentation for description and overall game play, feature sets, and design specifications - Would create a necessary flow chart/checks and balances sheet for art assets to be completed in order of importance - Mentored several new employees on After Effects, Lightwave 3D, Photoshop, Illustrator and Debabilizer Pro - Created several tutorials for processes to speed up the production of final art assets, and to help new hires better understand the limitations and inner workings of the new and old operating systems - Comfortable and familiar with traditional animation techniques related to 2D animation and 3D