Lisa Washburn
Vector Graphics
(510) 535-2331
email:
lisa@vectorg.com
Education:
January 1992-June 1994: San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. Bachelor of Arts Degree. Graduated
Cum Laude with emphasis in Drawing and Painting. Major classes include: Animation II, Honors
Painting Studio, Mixed Media, Figure Casting, five Painting and five Life
Drawing courses.
September 1990-June 1991: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. Drawing and Painting Major.
September 1989-June 1990: University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Drawing and Painting classes.
Computer
Graphics Experience:
Owner, Vector Graphics (www.vectorg.com), 6722 Aitken Drive, Oakland,CA 94611. (510) 339-6201. June
1999 to present. "I liked
the company so much that I bought it!"
In Addition to experience listed under Lead Artist at Vector Graphics:
- ‘3D Modeling Concepts and Principles’ speech
at the new Oakland campus of the San
Francisco
Sate University Multimedia Center.
- Wrote two Artist’s View columns for Game
Developer Magazine. July 2000 –
“Beauty and the Beast – Morphing Mayhem” and August 2000 “Bump and Shine
– Getting Down with New 3D Hardware Effects”. Both articles are in-depth technical
investigations of cutting edge real-time 3D art production.
- Held 3 sessions of roundtable discussions at Game Developer’s
Conference 2000 on facial animation and lip sync.
Lead Artist, Vector Graphics (www.vectorg.com), 27A
Embarcadero Cove, Oakland,CA 94606. (510) 535-2331. February 1997 to May 1999. Vector Graphics is a
real-time 3D art production house that specializes in technology demos for
new hardware and artwork for computer games.
- Promoted to Lead Artist in October of 1997.
- Designed, modeled, textured and animated 3D
models for real-time applications, including environments, objects,
buildings, and characters - both realistically human and fantastically
alien.
- Specified deliverables and set up schedules
for completion of artwork.
- Managed art production for numerous major
projects with full responsibility for meeting milestones and deadlines.
- Worked directly with clients and programmers
to import and debug artwork in often previously untested applications.
- Trained two new artists in real-time 3D
modeling using 3D Studio Max.
- Developed new procedures for creating artwork
to take advantage of new real-time technologies (i.e. animated
lightmaps, bump mapping and environment maps).
- Created artwork within the working parameters
of an existing game engine.
- Created the Vector Graphics web site.
- Held a roundtable discussion at the 1997 Computer Game
Developer’s Conference on the differences between different 3d modeling
packages.
- Spoke at Mills College and Max User’s Group on modeling real time
3D character heads.
Software:
Discreet 3D Studio Max 4, Character
Studio 2.0, Adobe PhotoShop 6.0,
Micrographx Picture Publisher 7, Flash 5, Netscape Composer, Microsoft Excel
, Microsoft Word , Microsoft Frontpage 2000.
Other Work
Experience:
Restoration Artist, Claremont Rug
Company, 6087 Claremont Ave., Oakland, CA 94618. (510) 654-0816. May 1995 to January 1997. Worked
in the Restoration Department repairing and restoring antique Persian rugs.
Responsibilities included: reweaving foundation, re-knotting pile,
end-stopping, selvage, painting, color matching, securing, and adding fringe.
An eye for detail, fine craftsmanship and color knowledge were emphasized.
Web Site Reviewer, Newview Inc., 2280 Diamond Blvd. Suite 500, Concord, CA
(510) 674-9901 ext. 2230. March 1996 to August 1996. Reviewed Internet sites
for software developer. Job entailed exploring the Web, finding appropriate
sites for target group of eight to fourteen year olds and objectively rating
site for content.
References Available
on Request
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