Alain Viesca Arts & Illustrations LLC Web: www.AlainViescaArts.com Email: AlainViescaArts@Gmail.com 16133 RainDust Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73170 Mobile: (405)429-0030 Qualifications Summary Freelance illustrator since 1990 part time and full time as of 2003 as well as licensing out pin up art and media for use in a t-shirt line and other upper body apparel for AD Vision®, The Mountain® & Skulbones® and Tuzi Enterprises, LLC. Licensing art on vinyl skins for electronics for DecalGirl, and other licenses for MYpsp Tubes®. Providing interior illustrations for books and audio cd covers for such as Arcane Wonders, Catalyst Game Labs, D&C Books ltd, ADV multimedia entertainment company, Origins Games Manufacturers Association & AudioText®. Contracting out primarily as a 3D artist and as a 2D artist creating figures & characters, mechanical and environmental models and various animals and creatures for 3D prototyping, animation or CMC 2.5D relief art. Exhibiting work at various exhibitions, conventions and galleries primarily in the North Americas, displaying and selling his work Skills: 3D Artist: Extensive experience using 3D Studio Max & Zbrush for Digital sculpting both figures and creatures, mechanical hard surface modeling and some environmental creation for watertight STL prototypes or animation ready models. Experience in Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premier for client specific 3d animation clips for web media and Dreamweaver. Digital Matte 2D Artist: Digital matte painting & Illustration using Photoshop. Graphic Artist: Designing custom art and illustrations from concept to production ready art for covers, interior art, vhs cover art, cd audio book art, Illustration skills (Mac & PC, Adobe Photoshop software) Retoucher & Recontruction Artist: Photo reconstruction and retouching Traditional Illustrator: Well versed in traditional means using pen and ink, pencils, acrylics and architectural markers, airbrush and watercolor. Styles include realistic, stylized, technical or cartoon. Storyboard Artist: Experience in initial concept and design, photo direction and full color or spot color art for print or media, storyboard design and layout. Wide Format Print Manager: Experience in running and maintaining wide format Epson printers i.e. Epson Stylus Pro 4880, Epson Stylus Pro 9700, HP wide format, Canon ImageProGraf iPF9000 Embroidery Digitizer: Concept reference art for embroidery and digitizing of art. Data Management & Office: Light typing with familiarity with Excel, Microsoft Word and Acrobat. Logging inventory using Google Drive and light hardware maintenance. Ares Mythologic Miniatures, Madrid, Spain Contracted Employment. Digital sculpting and 3D rapid prototype design and optimization for figurine production as well as 3D vehicle creation. Equipment used, Wacom tablet, Dual monitor workstation, Studio laptop, Zbrush & 3DS Max. Hangar18 Miniatures, Denver, CO 2012-Present Contracted Employment. Digital sculpting and 3D rapid prototype design and optimization for figurine production as well as 3D vehicle creation. Equipment used, Wacom tablet, Dual monitor workstation, Studio laptop, Zbrush & 3DS Max. MTM Recognition, Del City, OK 2013-Present 2011-Present Contracted Employment providing training for the art department in digital sculpting and 3D rapid prototype design and build for sculpting and bronze figurine production as well as concept art, sculpting and figure study instruction, and fine detail artist production. Equipment used, Wacom tablet, Dual monitor workstation, Dell studio laptop, Zbrush and various high resolution 3D printer. Kaizen Dreams LLC Oklahoma City, OK 2009-2011 Illustrator/Story Board Artist Contracted Employment. Initial concept pencil sketches, 2D Photoshop CS4 production art, 3D media for print utilizing 3DS Max 2009 & Zbrush 4. Equipment used primarily artist pencils, Wacom tablet, Canon flatbed scanner, Dell dual monitor workstation & Dell studio laptop. Owner/Manager Bryan Crump Liquid Logix Dallas, TX 3D Modeling, Digital Matte Painting and Storyboard Artist. 2007-2008 Concept pencil storyboard art, character concept creation pipeline utilizing pencil and acrylics, 2D reference design creation via Illustrator and Photoshop, 3D character modeling, texturing and lighting via Zbrush and 3DS Max. Equipment used primarily artist pencils, studio acrylics, Wacom tablet, Epson Pro scanner, studio workstation & personal laptop. Working under Josh Hurst Candid Color Systems Oklahoma City, OK 1998 -2003 Digital retoucher and photographic reconstruction artist. Working under Digital Art Lead Photo-retoucher and photographic reconstruction artist using Photoshop and color correction using Kodak software technology. Equipment used primarily, company workstations with Dell HD monitors, microfiche Kodak DP Plus scanner, Wacom tablet. Managed wide format Epson printers i.e. Epson Stylus Pro 4880, Epson Stylus Pro 9700, Canon ImageProGraf iPF9000 Worked under James Bryant and Cole. Oklahoma Embroidery Supply & Design Edmond, OK Artist and digitizer creating art for and digitizing art for embroidery designs. Studio color pencils, Wilcom Digitizing Software Brother 9-needle 1-head embroidery machine, 4 color screen printing press Worked under Beth Minster AD Vision, Houston, TX Freelance artist creating vhs wrap around covers and promotional art. 1997 -1999 1993 - 1997 Pencil illustrations, original animation cells and paintings for advertising, watercolor and acrylic illustrations. Studio pencils, artist acrylics and watercolor on cold press illustration board. Acetate and acrylic media for animation style cell paintings. Working directly under Matt Greenfield Alain Viesca Arts LLC Illustrator/Freelance Artist 1993-Present Pencil illustrations and sketches used for reference and concept art for client reference, 2D or 3D composite art for composition and layout, final Digital Matte Painting illustration submitted to client. Creation via Illustrator and Photoshop, 3D character modeling, texturing and lighting via Zbrush and 3DS Max. Equipment used primarily artist pencils, studio acrylics, Wacom tablet, Canon scanner, studio workstation & personal laptop Maintained and logged inventory, expenses, sales and contacts via Excel, Microsoft Word and Acrobat. Commission & contract art, licensed works, 3D design & development. Sole Owner/Artist Education and Training AAI Phoenix, AZ 1993-1994 Graphic Arts and Fine Arts and Illustration. OKCCC Oklahoma City, OK 1994-1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002-2004 Digital Content Creation, 3D Animation & Design under Professor Gary Dominguez.