Omar Sancristobal

Concept artist / Sculptor / Storyboard artist — Sausalito, CA

About

To land a position as character designer/ concept artist / sculptor. Provide exceptional concepts and ideas to be utilized for pre/post production including but not limited to video games, toys, animation, film and comic books. Continue to advance my abilities in all areas of art.

Experience:
4 years
Education:
Academy of Art University
The Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale
Affiliations:
Freedom-of-teach

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Omar Sancristobal
Concept artist / Sculptor
(H) 415-944-8997 / (C) 415-261-8472

Qualifications:
GRAPHIC -
Logo Design
Color Correcting
Illustration

ANIMATION -
Storyboard
2D animation
Keyframe/Inbetween

DESIGN -
Concept
3D modeling
Sculpting

SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE -
Maya
Adobe Photoshop
Macromedia Flash
Corel Painter
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Illustrator

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Freelance Creature / character concept artist , 2008
Art direction and concepts for current developing project
Programs utilized-
Photoshop CS2

Freelance Illustrator / Art director
Aspect Studio, 2008
Art direction and illustration for interior artwork within product catalog.
Program utilized-
Photoshop CS2

Tezlon , 2007
Sculptor

Black Mana , 2007
Character / Creature Concept Artist
:Programs utilized -
Alias Sketchbook Pro / Adobe Photoshop

Animation Collective inc., July 2006 - April 2007
Character Layout Artist ( Kappa Mikey)
Additional duties:
Pre-visualizations and storyboards
Prop Design
:Programs utilized-
Flash MX 2004 / Flash 8

SunArt Design inc., 2005-06
Hollywood, Fl
Graphic Designer/ Illustrator
:Responsible for the following processes needed to meet any and all Sunart Design, inc. clientele needs and company deadlines:
*Four color processing
*Heat transfer print preperation
*Color separations and coding
*Layout design
*Color correction
*Inkning and Illustration
*Typography
:Programs utilized-
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw

Superverse comics, 2004-05
Boca raton, Fl
Character Designer / BG Designer/ Storyboard artist -
:Produced artwork; Designed backgrouds and character sheets for lead and supporting characters for web based animation.
:Responsible for developing storyboards and ensuring that all supporting artists complete each project within project scope.
:Produced illustrations for nation-wide distributed magazine.
:Programs utilized - Adobe Photoshop, Adobe illustrator, Flash

Internship:
Lava Studio, 2003-04
Miami, Fl
Graphic designer -
:Developed layouts and storyboarded animatics for preproduction.
:Worked one-on-one with lead Flame artist to produce motion graphics and text used in national and international commercial spots.
:Responsible for prepping digital images such as Color Correcting .
:Programs Utilized - Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Flame

Outcross Magazine, 2000-03
Miami, FL
Illustrator / Graphic Designer -
:Designed logo and company image; Illustrated magazine covers.
:Responsible for all artistic aspects of interior art to the INC. story
:Programs utilized - Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Diamed-Caribean, inc. , 2003
:Designed art such as product illustration for company publication.
:Programs utilized - Adobe Photoshop

The Journey of Love: 2003
:Solely responsible for illustration and design of book cover and various advertisements.
:Design logo and various graphics for company web-site and t-shirts.
:Programs utilized - Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator

EDUCATION:

Academy of Art University San Francisco, Maters, Animation + VFX, Expected graduation 2011

The Art Institue of Ft. Lauderdale, Bachelor of Science, Media Arts and Animation, 2005



Projects by Omar Sancristobal