BROADCAST DESIGNER
RT Software, Lead Broadcast Designer. 2008 – present
With in the company I am responsible for editing their portfolio of work including showreel.This involves the tasks of achieving and quality control. I work with clients, adapting their ideas into solutions. The following are just a few of the projects I have lead:
Sky Sports, Super League. January 2011
Designing virtual graphics, including Player Profile, Angle to goal and other graphics for the 2011 to 2012 Rugby Super League on Sky Sports.
News International. December 2010
Created a virtual set concept animation and design material for pitch and project approval. By creating a branding virtual environments forThe Sun, The News of the World, The Times and The Sunday Times.
SIS, CoralTV. September 2010
Creating designs and animations from brief to create the onscreen graph- ics for a Morning show Big Saturday.
ETV, Racy Bingo and Show time. September 2010
Created 3D graphics for Gala bingo’s shows Racy Bingo and Showtime, aired on Gala TV.
Satellite Information Systems, SIS, At the Races, Coral tv. 2008 - 2010
For Satellite Information Systems (SIS) I have created onscreen graphics for their channels; including At the Races, Coral tv, SIS and Betfread.
Orange - Monkey, 13 commercials. August - September 2009
I created thirteen 20 seconds and 40 seconds, live action commercials for Orange Monkey. Which involved modeling iconic characters and composit- ing them with the live footage of Emma Jesson to a map of the United Kingdom. As well as managing freelance artist and assets created by The Mill.
MUTV, Match day live and Match graphics. June - October 2009
I worked with the designers at Venture Three, to redesign MUTV channel show, Match Day Live and their live in game match graphics.
Buongiorno, Quiz Call and Brain Box December 2008 - February 2009
Created a fully dynamic lower third graphics for their shows on Five and on e.tv in South Africa.
ETV, Gala Bingo. November 2008 - February 2009
I created 3D broadcast foreground graphics for bingo games, used in a virtual reality set, for the interactive game show GalaTV.
Cellcast. Senior Broadcast Designer.
SumoTV. August 2007 - August 2008
As the senior motion designer, I was responsible for creating concepts and designing new broadcast graphics for live interactive television shows for UK and India.
Channel Four. Lead Broadcast Designer
Ostrich Media. August 2005 - August 2007
I was part of a dynamic and very enthusiastic team where my role evolved quickly from a junior designer to that of Lead motion graphic designer. I managed a team of designers and freelancers, creating broadcast graphics for live and interactive quiz shows, for terrestrial broadcast in UK, Spain and South Africa. For which I liaised with heads of production, produced branding and maintained a weekly flow of production of prints designs and animations for air.
Academic background
fxphd, Matte Painting and Digital Enviroments. Advanced Nuke III. Integrat- ing Maya and Nuke. Oct – Dec 2010
fxphd, Grading. DSLR Cinematography. Maya in Production. Nuke and Stereoscopic. Oct – Dec 2009
University of Westminster, MSc Computer Animation. 2004-2005
Leeds Metropolitan University, BSc (Hons) Multimedia Technology. 2001-2004
Harrogate College, A/S Photography. 2003-2004 Harrogate Collage, A/S Art & Design. 2001-2002 Harrogate College, BTEC ND Multimedia Technology. 1999-2001
Software knowledge
Expert in, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya, Nuke and tOG. Experienced in, Cinema 4D, Clarity, Final Cut Pro and Premiere. OS, Mac, Redhat and Windows.
