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Rodney E. Bass - Artist / Designer / Educator |
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| 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: |
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| EXPERIENCE | ||||
PALOMAR COLLEGE - San Marcos, CA 2000 - Present |
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Adjunct Instructor of Multimedia |
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| 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. |
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HARCOURT E-LEARNING - San Diego, CA 2000 - 2001 |
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Information Designer |
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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 |
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Contract Production Designer |
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| 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. |
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SECRET CITY PRODUCTIONS - Oceanside, CA 1992 - 1994 |
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Art Director |
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| 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. |
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AMERICAN FILM TECHNOLOGIES - San Diego, CA 1991 |
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Animator/Lay out Artist |
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| 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 |
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Contract Graphic Designer |
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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 |
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| AA -
Computer Graphics Palomar College - San Marcos, CA |
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| Trained in
Traditional Cell Animation techniques at the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonist Local 839 i.a.t.s.e.b. (Not a Union Member) |
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