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Forge of Innovation
ALEXANDER SIMPSON-LAING
Address: 17 Mcdonald Street, Methil, Leven, Fife KY8 3AJ
E-mail: lostknight999@yahoo.com
Mobile: 07380 246454
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