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ALEXANDER SIMPSON-LAING

 

Address: 17 Mcdonald Street, Methil, Leven, Fife KY8 3AJ

E-mail: lostknight999@yahoo.com

Mobile: 07380 246454

https://rogantaur74.wixsite.com/forge-of-innovation

Professional info

 

Passionate and experienced creature and environment creator who develops new ideas that push the boundaries of the norm. Taking the most simple of ideas and creating it into an elaborate and fun filled world for everyone or the designated audience. Infectious enthusiasm for creativity and a great team player. Communication is key in a world of creative ideas and not afraid to express the many ideas regardless how bizarre or crazy.

 

Work experience

 

Freelance Concept & Project Work

2011 - present

 

Brainstorming - Taking the idea to create and develop a creature or character in its home environment. Then through a process of challenge and re-challenge making that character or creature believable.

 

Character/Environment Design - Building and creating the creature/character to live in its environment, making it anatomically correct giving it an evolutional background and history while giving the creature/character a reason to live.

 

Mural Paintings - Painted murals on walls in the environment the client preferred.

 

2D Art Tutoring - Taught other people who did not believe they could draw that in fact they could draw. 

 

NDA Novartis Pharmaceuticals

August 2013 - September 2013

Created and drew concept 2D art for animatic work for the client.

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Other Skills

Put in place strategies that built trust, opened lines of communication and inspired people to reach their full potential.

Facilitated an adaptive high performing leadership team to design, develop and launch a new product.

 
 
Languages

 

ENGLISH

GERMAN

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DUAL-CITIZENSHIP

BRITISH-BORN CITIZENSHIP

AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP

 

Skills

 

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

AUDITION

AFTER EFFECTS

FLASH

AUTODESK MAYA

ZBRUSH

UDK

UV LAYOUT

SKETCHING

2D/3D PROTOTYPING

CHARCTER CREATION

STORYBOARDING

ANATOMICAL KNOWLEDGE

LEADERSHIP

TEAMBUILDING

 

2010 - present

2010 - present

Education

 

INDIANA UNIVERSITY - School of Informatics

 

January 2011 - May 2015

 

B.S. Media Arts & Science

 

Specialization: 2D/3D Character & Concept Design

 

Graduating Project: The Boggurt

          Illustrated & Wrote a Children's Book "The Boggurt"

          Sculpted, Textured and Unwrapped Boggurt Creature using ZBrush

          Physical Prototyping for "Boggurt" Presentation

 

 

ALEXANDER SIMPSON-LAING

Concept Artist 2D 3D

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