Lisa Marie Erickson

Mocha with After Effects.

Prepping, cutting, and cleaning up scan data and digital sculptures in Zbrush for prototyping to be printed using the Stratasys printer, than finished, assembled, and painted traditionally.

Currently responsible for all aspects of developing this short outside of musical composition. The work is done on my free time from my home for a private client, so I am currently seeking opportunities for more commissioned work. Please view its progress here: http://popcornposts.blogspot.com/2016/12/happy-holidays.html Currently in rigging phases-- more updates to follow soon..

General 3D assistance with the creation of a short animated CG pitch to market for a potential series. Contribution included character animation, UV layout, and asset / environment modeling. Programs utilized were Motionbuilder and Maya using both hand-keyed and mocap data methods.

On this project I helped recreate multiple children's drawings as digital sculptures and prepared them for 3D print for an exhibit on 3D Printing at the Children's Museum of Art in New York City. I was then contracted to rebuild concept art made by FIT graduates to print for an exhibit called "Aliens Underground".

Hired to work with facial blend shapes to create animation on numerous shots with voiceover dialogue on several characters with various accents. The animation will be tracked and composited with live footage in a feature set for release in January of 2015. IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt3161386

Motion Graphics temporary relief artist for Total Access on-air spot, including starts/reveals for the Intro Wall on Social Saturday/Social Media projects. Tasks also included assisting producers with file organization for Mind Blowing Stats, minor design/roto in PS, AFX rendering assistance for delivery of Friday Night Spotlight.

Joined the graphics department to build / animate a number of logos for the NFL teams. My role consisted of breaking up logos into path components in Illustrator, creating clean models from splines in 3D, applying vray materials / settings, animating, than organizing these files for finessing / compositing by other team members.

Responsible for implementing new 3D department. My duties included organizing a functioning pipeline, modeling/texturing assets, training design team, supervising art assets/team, satisfaction of clients. I then developed an animated short / other graphical media for their website. These projects included creating characters in Zbrush and incorporating them into Maya.

Hired for an independent contract, I was responsible for all aspects of the job, including business negotiations and client meetings, edits and revisions, any and all artwork both 2D and 3d-- including drafting storyboards, animatics, and everything from preproduction through post, Audio editing, Delivery etc.

Saturday Night Live 2000's "Time and Time Again" Intro sequence. My part consisted of 3D modeling and object placement in 3ds Max in accordance to design stylesheets. As well as compositing, photo retouching, and roto work in Photoshop.

Prop Modeling for final episodes. As well as Camera Animation for shot sequences. "Oh Brother" and "Overkill" episodes.

I had roughly 10 days to recreate four of characters from the "Huntik" series: RedCap, Gareon, Freelancer, and Behemoth. The longest amount of time was 27 hours (RedCap), the least was 9 hours (Gareon)

Worked closely with director, Bradley Carney, to create and develop the structure of this commercial. Constructed storyboards, dopesheet, and all 2D/3D artwork involved. The spot concluded as a 30 sec. end product for both web and in-store viewing

Concept assistance and sole 2D/3D artist of project SimBLEND, a trailer for a military based training game. Asset and shot creation, layout, and animation, pre-production through post-production, animation and all artwork included.