| Laura L. Janczewski | |
| Phone: (435) 867-5316 Fax: (435) 867-5474 E-mail: lauraj@lauraj.net |
|
| Related Work Experience | |
| Independent Consultant | August 2000 - Present |
| Contracting currently for Telewizja Polska for a 3D character starring in it's own television series. Other clients included Everquest for Verant Entertainment, Racepak website, and character designs for other games. | |
| Sony Computer Entertainment, America | San Diego, California |
| 3d Artist | June, 1997 - August, 2000 |
| Lead Artist and background artist for Jet Moto 2124, a sequel to the Jet Moto series for the Playstation. Special-effects and front-end artist for Sorcery, a fighting and spell-casting game for the Playstation. | |
| Virgin Interactive Entertainment | Irvine, California |
| 3d artist, 2d animator | April 1994 - May 1997 |
| 3d Modeling using 3D Studio Max and texture mapping for Sportscar, a licensed game. Two plus years as an animator and artist on Toonstruck, a 2d adventure game starring Christopher Lloyd. Responsible for animating characters, all the background elements, and manipulating video with animation using the computer and traditional methods. Trained clean-up artists and other artists to do video compositing. Put together the Windows '95 Toonstruck Theme Pack for the Website, and did all the foriegn-language art changes for the game. | |
| Kolibri Art Studio | Torrance, California |
| Staff Artist | 1991 - 1994 |
| Reproduced several dozen original works of art by hand into serigraph prints, which are sold world-wide in art galleries. Responsible for taking projects from start to finish and overseeing the printing production. Trained new color separators. The serigraphs (silk-screen) were all hand painted or airbrushed on mylar in a photo-transfer process, and required exact mixing of ink colors, up to 120 colors per project. | |
| Moross Art Studio | Gardena, California |
| Staff Artist | 1991 |
| Independently learned the hand-color-separation process for serigraph prints, and produced and oversaw the printing of several projects. | |
| Unigraphics Print & Copy | East Lansing, Michigan |
| Paste-up Artist | 1990 |
| Made camera-ready page layouts and requiring the use of all equipment for offset lithograph production for a very busy privately-owned printing shop. | |
| Marketline Magazine | Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan |
| Art Director, staff artist | 1988-90 |
| Layed out the entire magazine for print (3 issues), illustrated articles, and took photographs for magazine. As the art director, I also oversaw the staff art production of the magazine as well as the printing. | |
| Software Knowledge | |
|
|
| Traditional Artistic Skills | |
|
|
| Education | |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan |
| Bachelor of Fine Arts | 1985 - 1990 |
| 3.7/4.0 GPA, with honors | |
| Specialized in Printmaking, graphic design, and drawing. | |
| Plus many classes, courses, seminars, and tutorialsfor art, animation, and other creative arts | |
. |
|
