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Rodney E. Bass - Artist / Designer / Educator
 
SUMMARY  
An imaginative, knowledgeable Graphics Design professional with over 15 years experience in the entertainment and educational development industries. Principal strengths include developing creative designs for video, multimedia and web; providing artistic style and graphical content of online learning; and multimedia development. Exceptional problem solving,
self-starting, and creative skills with expertise in:
 
Conceptual Design
Storyboards
Client Interaction
Art Direction
After Effects
 
Final Cut Pro
Flash
Dreamweaver
Instruction/Training
 
EXPERIENCE  
   
PALOMAR COLLEGE - San Marcos, CA 2000 - Present
 
Adjunct Instructor of Multimedia
 
Develop/instruct college level courses for After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Dreamweaver, Flash and PhotoShop.

Provide instruction on a professional level with real world demands, resulting in significantly improved student skills and award winning products.

Facilitate learning that allows students to perform at advanced levels thereby increasing comprehension and confidence in their own abilities.

Provide real world examples that enhance the student's ability to cope with the professional environment upon graduation.
 
   
HARCOURT E-LEARNING - San Diego, CA 2000 - 2001
 
Information Designer
 
Provided the artistic style and graphical content of online higher education distance learning courses. Developed on-line distance learning interactive college level courses.

Applied development experience to project organization, reducing quantity while improving quality of deliverables. This effort took advantage of previously produced work and by so doing significantly increased the margin over deadline.

Simplified and standardized style to make courses more intuitive and easier to navigate. This effort created uniformity between courses that enhanced the learning experience and made the transition between different courses much easier while reducing production time.

Developed interactive college level course exercises using Flash and After Effects for streaming content and animation to involve the user in an environment that enhances the learning and retention of course material.

Streamlined design process of on-line interactive module exercises using advanced Flash features. This reduced production time and increased cost savings.
 
 
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GRANITE BRIDGE STUDIO/STUDIO IOF - San Diego, CA 1992 - 1999
 
Contract Production Designer
 
Consulted, developed and produced graphics for pre-production, post production and print which related to all client commercial, industrial and television show development.
Conceptualized client needs through storyboards and graphics for filming,
off-line and online production of new show development as well as all studio promotion.
 
   
SECRET CITY PRODUCTIONS - Oceanside, CA 1992 - 1994
 
Art Director
 
Managed and Art Directed the production team involved in the design of merchandise and animation material for "The New Secret City Adventures,"
a children's drawing show. (Draw Squad PBS). Developed and produced board style drawing game winning best new children's product at Toy World 1992.
 
   
AMERICAN FILM TECHNOLOGIES - San Diego, CA 1991
 
Animator/Lay out Artist
 
Performed scene lay-out, tweening, fine line and ink and paint duties on the animated "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." (Marvel Comics - Fox Television).  
   
Walt Disney Studios, Burbank, CA 1985
 
Contract Graphic Designer
 
Contracted as a short term designer to conceptualize title designs for the feature films "Off Beat" and "One Magic Christmas."
Provided concept out logos for potential subsidiary production companies.
 
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EDUCATION and TRAINING  
   
BFA - Graphics/Packaging with a minor in Film
Art Center College of Design - Pasadena, CA
 
   
AA - Computer Graphics
Palomar College - San Marcos, C
A
 
   
Trained in Traditional Cell Animation techniques at the Motion
Picture Screen Cartoonist Local 839 i.a.t.s.e.b.
(Not a Union Member)

 
   
DESIGN SKILLS  
   
Graphics/Package Design
Marketing
Prototype Design and modeling
Photography
Art Direction
Film Design
 
Illustration
Graphic Design
Motion Graphics/Animation
Printing
Television production
Multimedia Production
 
   
TECHNICAL SKILLS
   
Fireworks
Sound Edit 16
DP Max 4:2:2 Video Paint Station
Quark Express
PageMaker
HTML
 
Illustrator
Freehand
Ray Dream 3D Studio
Traditional Animation
Airbrush
Traditional Art Mediums and Techniques
 
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