SKETCHFro
November 17th, 2008, 06:50 AM
Christopher R. Taylor – Image Designer
Email: glennsworldcomicz@gmail.com
Web Galleries: www.glennsueznin.deviantart.com
www.sketchfro.blogspot.com
Freelance History:
Jannis Lülf – Logo for local Member Group
Description: Design and created logo for use of a Members group. Logo will be used for stickers, advertisements and other assorted material for use in the group. Designed fully in Photoshop.
Will Beatman- Flash Animation for Website/ Spinning Record on Projector
Description: Created a short, repeating flash animation for use on a new website called “VIBE & SYNC”. The projector and spinning reel were to match the logo for the site in colors. Transferred logo into Flash and designed 2 projectors for the client to choose from. Once one was chosen, I animated the spinning film reel and movie reel onto it and added the logo of the site to the record.
Contact:beatman@gmail.com
Alessandra Davola- Fairy Tale Illustration
Description: Created a illustration based on a description for personal collection.
Drew the rough draft, then penciled the image for scanning and colored on the computer.
Contact: alessandra.davola@gmx.net
Cory de la Guardia- Zuda Comics Contest/Pitch Entry- Minimum Wage
Position: Pencilist/ Inker/ Colorist & Lettering
Description: Created an 8 Screen Pitch entry to Zuda Comics for Cory de la Guardia’s Minimum Wage. Designed characters from reference photos, rough pages, pencils and inks, then scanned into PC for Color and Lettering layout.
Contact: slackerinkvault@gmail.com
Greg Wilkinson- Mascot for Website www.staticprogress.com
Position: Mascot Designer-Graphic Design
Description: Designed a Mascot for used on music web space from a design the client had originally created. Mascot drawn, colored and optimized for use on the web.
Contact: greg@stacticprogress.com
Todd Guilmette- CD Album Booklet Artwork
Position: Graphic Designer for Album Book
Description: Designed Music CD album artwork for the client’s second music cd. Booklet included Visible Cover and back cover containing the client’s personal character. Style Matched main character into a created BG from description, inked then scanned into PC for color editing. Client ended up not using in the final product, however services were paid for.
Contact: greatfox@greatfoxmusic.com
White Eye Studio-Lawrence White- Colorist for Comics
Position: Flatter and Colorist
Description: Flatted and added color detail to comics being published by the Indie Comic label White Eye Studio. Preview of Comic can be seen here http://www.whiteeyestudios.com/our-comics/final-hour/
Contact: whiteeye1@gmail.com
Cotton Snourth- Maglenda’s Errand Girls-Manga Comic Pitch
Position: Pencilist/Inker/ Color Grayscale & Lettering
Description: Created a 6 page pitch comic for Louis Badalament’s Maglenda’s Errand Girls. Created Character Designs, layout pages, penciled and inked pages, then scanned into the PC for Grayscale coloring and Lettering.
Contact: badalamentink@gmail.com
Mark Krasovickis- Sample Colored Comic for Website
Position: Pencilist/Inker/ Color & Lettering
Description: Created a 5 page sample comic in color with cover for use for a freelancing Comic artist web space. Comic will be seen as an example of what the website is set out to do, which can be seen here www.craftycomics.com .
Contact: infomanga@googlemail.com
Sebastian Blasiak- Kidslab- Character Designs and Illustration
Position: Character Designer- Illustrator
Description: Created and Designed Characters for use in an Educational Project about water aimed for Children aged 7-9. Characters were then set in a illustration that would be used for the final presentation of the project.
Contact: s.blasiak@kidslab.pl
Gameforge Studios GmbH- Internet Advertisement Banners
Position: Designer
Description: Created a set of 7 web banners for one of the studio’s popular game series using stock imagery and FLASH to help arrange and design.
Contact: krohn@gameforge.de
Broken Souls Press-Short Story Comic- Donald Black
Position: Pencilist/Inker/Toner/Layout & Lettering
Description: Based of a story from a writer under BSP label, Curtis Lawson gave me the script to fully illustrate 10 comic pages to be used in an Anthology devoted to Horror stories as well as a magazine for horror comics.
Contact: curtismlawson@hotmail.com
Brian McKee- Book Cover
Position: Illustrator/ Cover Design
Description: Designed cover for book of short stories entitled “At the Gates of Heaven and other Short Stories” and for “Krishna in the Park- Selections from the diary of Carol Sheaves”. Books can be seen here: http://stores.lulu.com/raydude
Contact: brian@soulspark.org
Christopher Rama Rao- www.LoveandBetrayal.com Web-comic
Position: Concept Artist/ Pencils/ Inker/ Colorist
Description: Work on comic panels for online comic. Design Characters and backgrounds while applying them to script that was provided. A panel every week.
Contact: Christopherrao@gmail.com
Rob Giorgio- 360ep, Inc
Position: Illustrator
Description: Worked on two projects within the company and designed characters for use on t-shirts and websites.
Contact: 00-1-609-919-1007 x224
Antoine Dillard- Hardcore Animation.net (Website)
Position: Web Designer
Description: Designed and created interactive website for display at Hardcore Animation.net. Website designed and created in Flash.
Contact: animatorantoine@gmail.com
Mark Tioxon- Getting Girls the Anime Way (Book and website)
Position: Concept Artist/ Lead Artist
Description: Designed and created the cover image for the book in use of sales. Also will be used as graphics for the website.
Contact: AnimeYourLife@gmail.com
Mangamix Studios- Team MAXIMUM
Position: Illustrator
Description: Redesign characters for use in a poster to advertise for their comic. Designed poster for production and distribution for promotion purposes.
Contact: mangagraphix@aol.com
Arizona Independent Animation Project Position: Concept Artist/Lead Artist Description: Designed characters within one of the studio’s main animation projects. Also designed promotions and album covers for distribution at Conventions.
Contact: railstar@gmail.com
Sean Allan: Music DJ Position: Album cover designer Description: Designed an album cover for his next music collection album.
Contact: dravoido316@yahoo.com
Willow Cottage Studios Position: Lead Artist Description: Character Design for lead character in production. In process of working on Storyboards for script. Project: Bladeslinger Description: 8 Paged pitch comic for Ken Faggio. Created Character Design, penciled and inked pages, toned and texted pages. Contact: audiotoxic@hotmail.com
B-Boy Bunker.com Position: Character Artist Description: Have drawn various characters for use on web space on BBoyBunker.com.
Contact: Bboybunker@gmail.com
Glen L. Down Elementary School Festival Position: Caricature Artist Description: As the day progressed, I was hired to draw paying customer’s portraits in my style of art.
Education:
High School: Notre Dame Catholic High School Dates Attended: September 1999-June 2002 Major: Art and Literature Degree: High School Degree College: The Art Institute of Philadelphia Dates Attended: July 2002-December 2003 Major: Media Arts & Animation The Art Institute of Phoenix Dates Attended: January 2004-September 2005 Major: Media Arts & Animation Degree: Bachelor of Arts for Media arts & Animation With Honors
Professional Qualifications:
Computer Skills Flash: Knowledge of Motion Tween, Limited and Full Animation for use for Animated Shorts. Photoshop: CG coloring, Textures for 3D models and photo Manipulation Premiere: Edit Videos and animations within Premiere using various transitions and cuts After Effects: Edit Videos and Animations within AFX using various Transitions and cuts 3D Studio Max: Model Environments, Characters and Objects and animations Maya: Model Characters, Environments and Objects and animations Microsoft Office Tools: Worlds typed per minute: 60wpm, Gant Charts creation in Excel.
Customer Service Skills:
Good audible voice along with clear and proper grammar pronunciation, friendly, inviting, able to handle various situations as well as stressful encounters with customers.
Awards:
2 publication pieces in DOT, DOT, DOT magazine 2001-2002
Best of Show: Phoenix Anime Convention Awarded for digital Artwork: A man and his Gun
Books and Publications:
Final Hour : Various Artist and Writers
Link to page: http://www.whiteeyestudios.com/our-comics/final-hour/
Mysterious Visions: Volume 3: The Essex- Story by: Curtis Lawson, Illustrations by: Christopher Taylor -Link to page: http://www.dimestoredistro.com/mysteriousvisionsafterhours3-p-1033.html
Manga/comic: NEO|ARK Volume one Link to page: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=555055
Endless Journeys: Book of published photographers work published.
My work: “The Falconer” ISBN: 0-7951-5247-7
Email: glennsworldcomicz@gmail.com
Web Galleries: www.glennsueznin.deviantart.com
www.sketchfro.blogspot.com
Freelance History:
Jannis Lülf – Logo for local Member Group
Description: Design and created logo for use of a Members group. Logo will be used for stickers, advertisements and other assorted material for use in the group. Designed fully in Photoshop.
Will Beatman- Flash Animation for Website/ Spinning Record on Projector
Description: Created a short, repeating flash animation for use on a new website called “VIBE & SYNC”. The projector and spinning reel were to match the logo for the site in colors. Transferred logo into Flash and designed 2 projectors for the client to choose from. Once one was chosen, I animated the spinning film reel and movie reel onto it and added the logo of the site to the record.
Contact:beatman@gmail.com
Alessandra Davola- Fairy Tale Illustration
Description: Created a illustration based on a description for personal collection.
Drew the rough draft, then penciled the image for scanning and colored on the computer.
Contact: alessandra.davola@gmx.net
Cory de la Guardia- Zuda Comics Contest/Pitch Entry- Minimum Wage
Position: Pencilist/ Inker/ Colorist & Lettering
Description: Created an 8 Screen Pitch entry to Zuda Comics for Cory de la Guardia’s Minimum Wage. Designed characters from reference photos, rough pages, pencils and inks, then scanned into PC for Color and Lettering layout.
Contact: slackerinkvault@gmail.com
Greg Wilkinson- Mascot for Website www.staticprogress.com
Position: Mascot Designer-Graphic Design
Description: Designed a Mascot for used on music web space from a design the client had originally created. Mascot drawn, colored and optimized for use on the web.
Contact: greg@stacticprogress.com
Todd Guilmette- CD Album Booklet Artwork
Position: Graphic Designer for Album Book
Description: Designed Music CD album artwork for the client’s second music cd. Booklet included Visible Cover and back cover containing the client’s personal character. Style Matched main character into a created BG from description, inked then scanned into PC for color editing. Client ended up not using in the final product, however services were paid for.
Contact: greatfox@greatfoxmusic.com
White Eye Studio-Lawrence White- Colorist for Comics
Position: Flatter and Colorist
Description: Flatted and added color detail to comics being published by the Indie Comic label White Eye Studio. Preview of Comic can be seen here http://www.whiteeyestudios.com/our-comics/final-hour/
Contact: whiteeye1@gmail.com
Cotton Snourth- Maglenda’s Errand Girls-Manga Comic Pitch
Position: Pencilist/Inker/ Color Grayscale & Lettering
Description: Created a 6 page pitch comic for Louis Badalament’s Maglenda’s Errand Girls. Created Character Designs, layout pages, penciled and inked pages, then scanned into the PC for Grayscale coloring and Lettering.
Contact: badalamentink@gmail.com
Mark Krasovickis- Sample Colored Comic for Website
Position: Pencilist/Inker/ Color & Lettering
Description: Created a 5 page sample comic in color with cover for use for a freelancing Comic artist web space. Comic will be seen as an example of what the website is set out to do, which can be seen here www.craftycomics.com .
Contact: infomanga@googlemail.com
Sebastian Blasiak- Kidslab- Character Designs and Illustration
Position: Character Designer- Illustrator
Description: Created and Designed Characters for use in an Educational Project about water aimed for Children aged 7-9. Characters were then set in a illustration that would be used for the final presentation of the project.
Contact: s.blasiak@kidslab.pl
Gameforge Studios GmbH- Internet Advertisement Banners
Position: Designer
Description: Created a set of 7 web banners for one of the studio’s popular game series using stock imagery and FLASH to help arrange and design.
Contact: krohn@gameforge.de
Broken Souls Press-Short Story Comic- Donald Black
Position: Pencilist/Inker/Toner/Layout & Lettering
Description: Based of a story from a writer under BSP label, Curtis Lawson gave me the script to fully illustrate 10 comic pages to be used in an Anthology devoted to Horror stories as well as a magazine for horror comics.
Contact: curtismlawson@hotmail.com
Brian McKee- Book Cover
Position: Illustrator/ Cover Design
Description: Designed cover for book of short stories entitled “At the Gates of Heaven and other Short Stories” and for “Krishna in the Park- Selections from the diary of Carol Sheaves”. Books can be seen here: http://stores.lulu.com/raydude
Contact: brian@soulspark.org
Christopher Rama Rao- www.LoveandBetrayal.com Web-comic
Position: Concept Artist/ Pencils/ Inker/ Colorist
Description: Work on comic panels for online comic. Design Characters and backgrounds while applying them to script that was provided. A panel every week.
Contact: Christopherrao@gmail.com
Rob Giorgio- 360ep, Inc
Position: Illustrator
Description: Worked on two projects within the company and designed characters for use on t-shirts and websites.
Contact: 00-1-609-919-1007 x224
Antoine Dillard- Hardcore Animation.net (Website)
Position: Web Designer
Description: Designed and created interactive website for display at Hardcore Animation.net. Website designed and created in Flash.
Contact: animatorantoine@gmail.com
Mark Tioxon- Getting Girls the Anime Way (Book and website)
Position: Concept Artist/ Lead Artist
Description: Designed and created the cover image for the book in use of sales. Also will be used as graphics for the website.
Contact: AnimeYourLife@gmail.com
Mangamix Studios- Team MAXIMUM
Position: Illustrator
Description: Redesign characters for use in a poster to advertise for their comic. Designed poster for production and distribution for promotion purposes.
Contact: mangagraphix@aol.com
Arizona Independent Animation Project Position: Concept Artist/Lead Artist Description: Designed characters within one of the studio’s main animation projects. Also designed promotions and album covers for distribution at Conventions.
Contact: railstar@gmail.com
Sean Allan: Music DJ Position: Album cover designer Description: Designed an album cover for his next music collection album.
Contact: dravoido316@yahoo.com
Willow Cottage Studios Position: Lead Artist Description: Character Design for lead character in production. In process of working on Storyboards for script. Project: Bladeslinger Description: 8 Paged pitch comic for Ken Faggio. Created Character Design, penciled and inked pages, toned and texted pages. Contact: audiotoxic@hotmail.com
B-Boy Bunker.com Position: Character Artist Description: Have drawn various characters for use on web space on BBoyBunker.com.
Contact: Bboybunker@gmail.com
Glen L. Down Elementary School Festival Position: Caricature Artist Description: As the day progressed, I was hired to draw paying customer’s portraits in my style of art.
Education:
High School: Notre Dame Catholic High School Dates Attended: September 1999-June 2002 Major: Art and Literature Degree: High School Degree College: The Art Institute of Philadelphia Dates Attended: July 2002-December 2003 Major: Media Arts & Animation The Art Institute of Phoenix Dates Attended: January 2004-September 2005 Major: Media Arts & Animation Degree: Bachelor of Arts for Media arts & Animation With Honors
Professional Qualifications:
Computer Skills Flash: Knowledge of Motion Tween, Limited and Full Animation for use for Animated Shorts. Photoshop: CG coloring, Textures for 3D models and photo Manipulation Premiere: Edit Videos and animations within Premiere using various transitions and cuts After Effects: Edit Videos and Animations within AFX using various Transitions and cuts 3D Studio Max: Model Environments, Characters and Objects and animations Maya: Model Characters, Environments and Objects and animations Microsoft Office Tools: Worlds typed per minute: 60wpm, Gant Charts creation in Excel.
Customer Service Skills:
Good audible voice along with clear and proper grammar pronunciation, friendly, inviting, able to handle various situations as well as stressful encounters with customers.
Awards:
2 publication pieces in DOT, DOT, DOT magazine 2001-2002
Best of Show: Phoenix Anime Convention Awarded for digital Artwork: A man and his Gun
Books and Publications:
Final Hour : Various Artist and Writers
Link to page: http://www.whiteeyestudios.com/our-comics/final-hour/
Mysterious Visions: Volume 3: The Essex- Story by: Curtis Lawson, Illustrations by: Christopher Taylor -Link to page: http://www.dimestoredistro.com/mysteriousvisionsafterhours3-p-1033.html
Manga/comic: NEO|ARK Volume one Link to page: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=555055
Endless Journeys: Book of published photographers work published.
My work: “The Falconer” ISBN: 0-7951-5247-7