M a n d y
S c h m i d t
Mobile: 07980 8810 21 E-mail: spiraltwin1@yahoo.co.uk
Website: http://www.mandyschmidt.com/furniture
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I am resourceful and reliable and well motivated.
Good at setting projects to work with and sticking to them.
Excellent at visualization. Good eye for detail. Quick to learn new skills.
Employment
2006
2006
2006
2005-6
2003-2006
2003
Welsh National Opera
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Working as a carpenter in the set department.
Steve Prescott Building Works
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Working as a painter and decorator.
Cefn Glas, Old People’s Residence. Blackwood, Wales.
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Commission to make a feature table and bench set for the local residents.
Opened February 17th, 2006 by Glenys Kinnock.
BBC Dr WHO TV Series.
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Freelance Set Dresser.
Freelance Artist.
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Working in close connection with a timber framing company to source wood
and create furniture. Pursuing as many ideas as is possible to make original
and unique pieces.
Genuine Games, Scotland.
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Character and Environment artist. Freelance, working remotely, using
Gamebryo technology.
Pivotal Games, Bath.
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Character artist for Conflict Desert Storm 2 and Conflict Vietnam.
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Creating high polygon patch models for FMV, and low polygon edit-mesh
models for in game.
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Using the Unwrap UVW facility in Max on a single texture page.
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Character Rigging using the Character Studio Biped and the Skin modifier.
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Constructing morph targets for lip sync work and solving Skin limitations.
2002
Birchfield Interactive plc, Cardiff.
 Computer Artist and Animator for “Ace Monkey” educational software.
2000-2002
Immersive Education, Oxford.
 Computer Artist. Researching, modeling and posing characters, animals, props
and environments for an educational storyboard game called Kar2ouche.
 Modeling included general construction using 3D Max 4: Surface tools and low
poly modeling, bones, skinning and texturing, hair and cloth design and
rendering.
 Characters were often accurate representations of people from an historical or
modern day background.
 Texturing involved using Photoshop 6, illustration, and digital photography.
1998
Home Movies Animation Company, Cardiff.
Creative Supervisor for an award winning film for the Cardiff Animation
Festival, working with local schools.
1997-1998
Competa Studios, Competa, Spain.
Working as an artist in a community studio, tutoring life drawing.
1995-1997
Howardian Community Education Centre, Penylan, Cardiff.
Photographic Development Officer. This involved teaching beginners
photography; general maintenance of the darkroom; and the development of
the darkroom facilities.
Six Primary Schools in the Cardiff area.
Organising and running Pinhole photography workshops with classes of
children in year 5 and 6; teaching them the fundamentals of photography and
the science of light, over a semester.
“Cities in Schools” Project, Cardiff.
Teaching expelled children as a community project tutor.
1993-1997
Part Time Residential Care Officer, Cardiff County Council.
Enabling adults with learning difficulties to live in the community.
1996
Photographer’s Residency, Meadowbank School, Whitchurch, Cardiff.
Working as part of “Artists and Teachers Working Together” project.
Mantova, Italy; and Utrecht, Holland. International Pavement Drawing Artist.
Education
Dates
Establishments
Subjects and Grades
2005-2006
Trowbridge Technical College, Wiltshire.
NVQ2: Furniture Making:
Pending.
1998-2000
Glamorgan Centre for Art & Design Technology, HND: Animation:
Pontypridd.
Higher National Diploma.
1992-1997
Adult Education Courses:
G.C.S.E.’s: Biology (B),
Spanish (A).
A levels: Sociology (B).
City and Guilds: Photography.
1989-1992
Cardiff Institute of Higher Education, Cardiff.
B.A Honors:
Fine Art: 2.1
1988-1989
Trowbridge Technical College, Wiltshire.
Foundation Diploma:
Art and Design.
1981-1988
Corsham Comprehensive School, Wiltshire.
A Levels: Art, History,
English.
O Levels: Geography, Maths, Art,
French, Chemistry, Physics,
History, English Literature, English
Language.
Voluntary Work
1998
1997
1992
Character modeller on the Gogs at Aaargh Animation, Cardiff.
Building and documenting a playground construction, Pueblo Nuevo, Nicaragua.
Coordinator for a Quaker International Project taking a group of adults with learning
difficulties on holiday in Edinburgh.
1986-1987
Fundraiser for a year before going to Kenya, as part of a team, to build a school
with the help of the local school children for Wiltshire/Kenya Link.
Skills and Interests
Making furniture. French and Spanish.
Cycling, swimming, camping, traveling.
Clean driving licence since January 1993.
Referees
David Banner. Art Director, Genuine Games, Unit 2, Ben Nevis Way, Ben Nevis Industrial Estate,
Fort William, Scotland, PH33 6RV.Dai@genuinegames.co.uk
Shreepali Patel . Director/Producer. 45 Ferndale Street, Grangetown, Cardiff. Tel:07879 630981.
Published Games and Educational Software
Kar2ouche:
Midsummers Night Dream, The Vikings, People in Science, Elements and
Atoms.
Ace Monkey:
Wild Animals.
Playstation2 Games: Conflict: Desert Storm 2.
Conflict: Vietnam.
Pure Guts
Street Luge (pending).
Pure Guts
Downhill Skateboard (pending).