Photoshop Artist Sample Resume

Nick Orwell
1234 Post Oak Drive
New York, NY 64000
Home: 404-555-5555
Cell: 404-555-5556
Email: Nick Orwell@frontfocus.com
  Objective: Former Disney animation artist seeking full time employment as a Photoshop Artist/Illustrator within a company that would allow me to grow professionally.   Qualification Summary: Dedicated, creative reliable and customer service oriented employee visualizing staff opportunities to utilize knowledge of digital photography, Photoshop, Quark and Dreamweaver. Highly trained in Photoshop editing, image manipulation, and image restoration. Able to formulate a concept and render illustrations in detail from sketches, memory, and imagination. Very skilled in webpage design, graphic design layouts, 3D and 2D animation, and combining various media to explain and adorn printed or spoken words. Expert HTML/XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), strong in Photoshop mock ups, and Javascript. Strong ability to translate technical requirements into solutions, to work in enterprise content management system to load content and images as well as to resize images for efficiency to web sites.   Education: Bachelor degree in Arts - Associates of Applied Design
Major studies in Graphic Design
University of New York, NY
July 2000   Work Experience: Animation Artist,
Disney Studios, Burbank, CA
June 2003? present

Created storyboards that depict the script and narrative, draw in 2D to create sketches, artwork or illustrations, designed models, backgrounds, sets, characters, objects and the animation environment, used a range of materials, including modeling clay, plaster, oil paints, watercolors and acrylics, developed the timing and pace of a character's or object's movements during the sequence of images and ensuring they follow the soundtrack and audio requirements. Also used technical software packages, such as Photoshop, Flash, 3d studio max, Maya, Lightwave, Softimage and Cinema 4D, built up accurate, detailed frame-by-frame visuals, recorded dialogue and worked with editors to composite the various layers of animation (backgrounds, special effects, characters and graphics) in order to produce the finished piece. Worked to production deadlines and meeting clients' commercial requirements. I was part of a team of a broader production network, which included liaising with printers, copywriters, Photoshop artists, photographers, designers, account executives, website designers or marketing specialists.   Freelance Photoshop Artist,
Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, New York, NY
May 2000 ? May 2003

The job helped develop a wide range of skills from product photography, setting up photo shoots, selecting models, photographers and backgrounds for all kinds of layouts. Extensive experience in brochures, logos, t-shirt designs, informational graphics, products, multimedia, signage, people photography and catalogs. Activity in producing company catalogs, print media in magazines, business cards, logos, letterhead and creating brand marketing for multiple companies.   References: Available upon request