Joseph A Spano III
Mojoseph@gmail.com | JoeSpanoVFX.com
Los Angeles, California

Education:
Art Institute of Pittsburgh
Bachelors of Science Degree
GPA 3.4 /4.0
Grad 2009

Trumbull Career & Technical Center
Technical Degree in Interactive Multimedia
GPA 3.2/4.0
Grad 2004

Proficiencies:
Compositing, Stereoscopic Compositing, Match Moving, Texturing, 3D Lighting, Modeling, Image Projections, Matte Painting, Rendering Passes, Motion Graphics, Rotoscoping, Keying, Animating 2D/3D

Software Proficiencies:
Primary
Nuke, Shake, Maya, 3d Studio Max (Mental Ray/ Vray), PFTrack, Adobe Production Premium, Final Cut Pro, Zbrush
Secondary
Boujou, MatchMover, RealFlow, Cinema 4D, Mudbox

Related Work Experience:
Zoic
Los Angeles, CA
2010
Nuke Compositor

Nitrous Visual Effects
Los Angeles, CA
2010
Nuke Compositor/ 3D Generalist

Therapy Studio
Los Angeles, CA
2010
AE Compositor/ 3D Generalist

ON Motion Media
Pittsburgh, PA
2010
NukeCompositor/ Motion Graphics Artist

T. Larkin Productions
Pittsburgh, PA
2009
Shake Compositor

Awards Honors:
Grand Prize Winner: Adobe Design Competition “Live Action” 2008
received assorted prizes including speaking at SIGGRAPH 2008

Best of Show
Art Institute of Pittsburgh Graduation, December 2009: Visual Effects & Motion Graphics

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