Resume

Edwin R Gomez

Address: 413 N 12th Street Montebello Ca 90640

Cell: (323) 303-4556

Instagram: @dropclothartstudio

Email: Creativeedgomez@gmail.com

Professional profile

Seeking a position with an opportunity for growth that will utilize my 15 years of experience in television animation production and 18 years in education, both at the collegiate level and secondary high school level

Qualifications:

I am Skilled in Character Design, Background layout, Character Layout, 2D Animation, Digital Animation,3D Animation, Experimental Animation, Storyboarding, Graphic Design, Video Production, Film editing using Adobe Premiere, After-Effects, and Final Cut Pro, Visual effects green-screen operation using both indoor and outdoor filming techniques, and Digital Photography.

Technical Skills:

Traditional animation, Digital animation, Adobe Animate Digital Animation, Moho Animation Rigging and Animation, After Effects Animation and Rigging, Adobe Premiere, Illustrator, After-Effects, Photoshop, and Lightroom.

Career summary:

Teaching Experience:

Rowland High School, Aug 12th-present, 

Media Arts & Animation Teacher:

  • Teaching graphic design 
  • Teaching typography
  • Teaching motion graphics 
  • Teaching character design
  • Teaching character animation
  • Teaching demo reel classes
  • Teaching Independent studies studio classes 
  • Teaching Video production techniques

Irvine Valley College – present 

Animation and Character Design:

  • Teach environmental design for games and animation
  • Teaching digital animation and traditional animation 
  • Teaching Layout, both for characters and backgrounds
  • Teaching traditional animation aimed at a digital/3D animation pipeline, teaching figure drawing, and anatomy fundamentals aimed at a character pipeline
  • Teaching Character Development
  • Teaching Figure Drawing for Character Designers
  • Teaching Perspective for Animation and Game
  • Teaching demo reel classes
  • Teaching Independent studies studio classes 

Drexel University

Visual development Professor:

  • Taught Cinematography
  • Taught Visual Storytelling
  • Taught Camera Animation
  • Taught Organization & Modeling For Previs
  • Taught Layout & Rigging Assets
  • Taught Animation & Editing
  • Taught Advanced Camera Animation & Storytelling Visuals
  • Taught Lighting for Previs
  • Taught Camera Effects & Audio Editing
  • Taught Professional Insight & Best Practices

Cal State Long Beach, Aug 2019 – Dec 2019

Character Design Teacher

  • Taught Introduction to character design 
  • Taught character design procedures
  • Taught anatomy for artists.
  • Taught shape-based construction
  • Taught story-driven character design

El Camino College, July 2019-Aug 2019 

Media Arts Teacher

  • Taught Intro to 3D modeling
  • Taught Intro to Character design
  • Taught Intro Film 

North Orange County ROP, Aug – 2016 – June 2019 

Media Generalist:

Animation:

  • Taught traditional animation in a digital animation program
  • Taught Layout both for characters and backgrounds
  • Taught traditional animation aimed at a digital/3D animation pipeline, taught storyboarding and timing techniques
  • Taught character rigging for 2D animation
  • Taught Story development and script development aimed at film and animation. Taught 2D layout, both for character and background design. 

Video:

  • Taught Story development for film
  • Taught the stages of script writing and story structure
  • Taught Camera operation for video production and film
  • Taught VFX green-screen operation for newscast production and short film
  • Taught three-point lighting and staging for film production. Taught digital film editing using industry-based programs. Visual communication:
  • Taught the rules of design, Taught product layout, Taught typography principles
  • Taught visual development for a product
  • Taught pitch production for the product
  • Taught the history of product design and layout 

Graphic Design:

  • Taught Typography 
  • Taught Basic Design skills
  • Taught composition and layout for graphic design 
  • Taught an introduction to Illustrator.
  • Taught the history of type

Photography:

  • Taught the history of photography 
  • Taught Camera operation
  • Taught the rules of composition
  • Taught the art of seeing and not just shooting
  • Taught Lightroom
  • Taught Photoshop, Taught After Effects

Pico Rivera Parks, Oct 2016 – present.

Media Arts:

  • Teach basic character design skills
  • Teach 2D animation
  • Teach Layout for animation

La Puente Valley ROP, Aug 2014 – Aug 2016 

Animation teacher:

  • Teach traditional animation in a digital animation program
  • Taught Layout, both for characters and backgrounds
  • Taught traditional animation aimed at a digital/3D animation pipeline 
  • Taught storyboarding and timing techniques
  • Taught character rigging for 2D animation
  • Taught Story development and script development aimed at film and animation, and taught 2D layout, both for character and background design.

Westwood College South Bay campus, Aug 6th 2014, 

3D Generalist:

  • Taught intermediate modeling Demo Reel Design

LA City Harbor College 03/12 – June 2012 

Adobe Photoshop Professor:

  • Taught Advanced and fundamental classes in the art of digital editing and rendering.

Westwood College Anaheim campus 06/08 – Oct 8th 2014 

2D-3D Generalist:

  • Taught the fundamentals of 3D Studio Max, Maya, Mudbox, ZBrush, including character modeling, character acting, and character animation, Studio Pipeline system, storyboarding process, rigging, and skinning; taught traditional drawing for game and animation artists.

Brooks College 06/06 –06/08

Animation Game Art Professor:

  • Taught Flash CS3, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, Fundamentals of Graphic Design, Layout, Package Design, and Composition for Commercial Design

East Los Angeles College 09/07 – Dec 07

Photoshop Professor:

  • Taught Animation, Flash design/Adobe CS3, Fundamentals and Advanced Photoshop 
  • Taught Flash, conceptual drawing, key animation, storyboarding, and storytelling for animation.

Professional Experience:

Freelance Animator/Conceptual Designer 1/03 – present

  • Create and animate characters on a contract basis for independent small studios, start-up companies, or established ones, such as Big Bad Tomato and Disney

Hollywood Beautification Team 6/98 – 9/07 

Muralist/Educator

  • Created murals at multiple schools around the city; educated students on creating art and helping the environment; worked on this project on an as-needed basis.

Klasky Csupo 11/05 -06/06 Animator/Layout Artist

  • Created secondary characters for pilot shows. Create Layout for Background
  • Creating a Layout for a Character
  • Rig 2D characters for animation in Photoshop 

Walt Disney Company, 10/04 10/05 

Conceptual Designer: Buena Vista Games

  • Pitched ideas to art directors and producers to keep the pipeline flowing; created conceptual characters and environments to create the style and feel of the game in development; researched time periods to set the mood for the game.

Cartoon Network 1/03-12/03 

  • Freelance Character Designer

Education & qualifications

The Art Institute of California, Los Angeles:

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Animation and Media Arts
  • (Completed Dec 2004)

The Academy of Arts University:

  • MFA Film/ Animation/Illustration (Completed Winter 2013)

Orange County Department of Education:

  • Single Subject teaching credential in Art Media and Entertainment (Completed May
  • 2018)

References available on request