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Ryan Durney
Resume - Online Version 2.1, 2_27_09 7920 San Felipe Blvd. Apt. 2704 Austin, TX 78729 (512) 249 - 7191 (614) 743 - 1451 - mobile permanent contact number: 814 793-3613 RyanDurney@hotmail.com or OnDrawnWings@excite.com GOAL ~ Seeking employment utilizing my professional skills in creating and/or directing artistic projects Contract,Part-Time or Full-time EDUCATION: Columbus College of Art & Design Awarded $26,000 scholarship Obtained BFA May 21, 1999 Major: Illustration Areas of Concentration: Illustration, Graphic Design, Digital Photography, Current area of concentration: 3D modeling and texturing, used for illustrative purposes and game models ILLUSTRATION & DESIGN SKILLS: Completed hundreds of finished full color and black-and-white illustrations for Children’s, Editorial, and Fantasy projects. Prepared digital files and helped direct press preparation of hundreds of children's titles. Organized and archived all digital production content. Advanced Photoshop color-correction skills. DIGITAL SKILLS/SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE: Adobe Creative Suite, Design Premium, CS4 Photoshop 7.01 to CS4 - over 30,000 hours Pagemaker - over 10,000 hours InDesign - thousands of hours 3D Studio Max 2009, 64-bit Maya 4.5, 5 Z-Brush 3.1 VUE d'Esprit Hundreds of hours in the following: Art Rage DAZ Studio Xfrog Faceshop Deep Exploration Golive Illustrator Painter Bryce Poser Quark Express Dreamweaver Premiere Video Editing Software Color Adjustment and Press Preparation PDF management, Genuine Fractals WORK EXPERIENCE: Illustrating my version of "Alice In Wonderland" '09 Illustrating "The Butterfly The Dolphin & the Dinosaur" a children's book, 1/09 Illustrated my 10th science fiction story for Odyssey Magazine, 1/09 Awarded Best 3D Christmas Illustration, Renderosity '08 Illustrated 5 covers for Markets Media Magazine, '08 Began young adult fantasy illustration for "Silver Seed of Tirn Aill" also editor and contributing writer Awarded placement in "Society of Illustrators, #45" Illustrated cover for "Paddy Tyler and the Secret of the Stones" 9/07 Illustrated "Yoga, Mommy and Me" a children's book '07 Illustrated cover for "Wellspring of Magic" 3/07 Illustrated “Real-Life Sea Monsters,” Lerner Publishing '07 Chief 3D artist and designer for DSCI, 10/05 - 8/06 full time employment, some responsibilities: Modeling & texturing of largescale database landscapes Modeling & texturing of machines, plants and people Illustrated children’s book, “The Cold.” Illustrated Fantasy Game Book, Valhalla Productions, LLC. Illustrations for a DVD used as a vocabulary tool for deaf students, Wildbug Interactive Media, Ltd. Created cover art for many Young Adult science-fiction and fantasy novels. Created cover illustration for TIME Magazine for Kids, 2004 and 2005, End-of-the-Year Roundup Edition Wrote and Illustrated children’s books, also art direction and layout, for company “Journeys In Literacy” Illustrated 27 children’s readers, Continental Press. Some titles: “The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings,” “Look, Bugs!” “Puffins,” “Prairie Town,” “Weedy Sea Dragons,” “Scarlet Macaws” also “The Contest,” a re-telling of an Aesop Fable Wrote and Illustrated “Giant Bugs Were Real!” a book about prehistoric bugs/dinosaurs, published by Seedling Publications, Inc. Illustrated cover for Clubhouse JR Magazine Studio 612, part-time employment, retouching of high-end commercial photography. Illustration for Artisan Books, “My Bug” Seedling Publications, Inc., full time employment, 6/99 - 4/02. Title: Art Director & Illustrator, Head of Graphic Design Dept. some projects and responsibilities: Created layout and design for hundreds of children’s books, also created: Posters, Print Advertisements, Package Design, & Product Photography Created company website, over 100 pages of content Created yearly catalog with team of four designers Attended press production of projects, developed eye for color correction and press preparation. www.ryandurney.com http://www.jacketflap.com/profile.asp?member=RyanDurney http://ondrawnwings.deviantart.com/ REFERENCES: Chris Kuck Program Manager, DSCI My affiliation: Chris was my manager and project leader. He appointed the game models and texture assigments to me as well as directing a photo shoot of a live site to be turned into a 3D modeled area. 10/05 - 8/06 733 E Dublin-Granville Rd Suite 204 Columbus OH, 43229 Contact: 614 - 468 - 0191 Josie Stewart Current position: head author/editor of Journeys In Literacy, a publisher centered on educational materials for young and troubled readers My affiliation: Josie was my manager when I was head of the art dept. at Seedling Publications, Inc. 1998 through 2002. She has been a project leader for many published books contracted by Continental Press. Contact: 614 - 354 - 8812 Robert Salem Current position: head of web hosting and digital services, Robert Salem Enterprises My affiliation: Bob was my manager/art director at Seedling Publications, Inc. 1998-2002 Contact: 614 - 354 - 8810 John Salvage Current position: Art Director, creator of Fantasy Role-Playing Games My affiliation: John is a client of mine for freelance contracts. 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