Work Experience
NBC / Telemundo Los Angeles (KVEA-52 / KWHY-22)
Senior Graphic Artist / December 2000 - Present
Working in promotions and news using both 2D and 3D animation. Designing and animating promotional graphics, news packages, station IDs, topicals, news segments and special sweeps graphics. Creating graphic packages for En Contexto, The Los Angeles Marathon, El Show de los Lakers, De Mujer a Mujer and Cine Karateca. Packages for televised concerts featuring Gloria Trevi, Alejandra Guzman and Lupillo Rivera. Print work for backdrops, posters, newspaper advertisements, T-shirts, mic flags, and news set artwork. Satire graphics and character development for morning show, PSA’s and community events. Designed Olympic graphics package for local Telemundo affiliates nationwide. Network graphics for “Al Rojo Vivo” and the very successful Tu Eres Telemundo - Haz el Click.
Passions (NBC)
Part-time Special Effects Artist / June 2006 - November 2007
Special Effects work such as Rotoscoping, key tracking, compositing, color-correction and time remapping. Created elements such as fire, smoke, lightning, sparks, and cell phone interfaces. Other duties include wire-frame removal, shadow removal, watery distortions, floating objects, object shattering and spinning objects. Composited green screen environments and falling objects.
Univision (KMEX-34)
Graphic Artist / June 1999 - December 2000
Graphic artist on the highest rated news casts in Los Angeles, 6pm and 11pm. Daily news graphics, character design and satire graphics for Primera Edicion, winner of the Golden Mic award. Providing artwork for promos, commercials, psa’s and live television such as breaking news and traffic reports. Also operating stillstore and prompter for live broadcasts.
Graphic Artist - Collage Trainer
June 1998 - June 1999
Freelance work for graphic design, animation, photo manipulation, rotoscope, dirt & scratch removal, title design and credit rolls for television shows such as : Star Trek - Voyager, Mortal Kombat - Conquest, Just Shoot Me, ER, Pacific Blue, Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Saved by the bell - The New Class, MTV’s Sifl & Olly Show, and City Guys. Creating opening and closing credits for feature films : From Dusk til Dawn II - Texas Blood Money, One Foot in the Grave, Misfit Patrol and the Pelican’s Will.
Blue Water Post Production
Graphic Artist / June 1996 - May 1998
Using Collage graphics to preform frame restorations, create logos, titles, mattes credit rolls, and lower thirds for television and video releases such as Daylight - Special Edition, Vertigo - Special Edition, John Carpenter’s Vampires EPK, The Arthel and Fred Show, and the Pet Shop.
Skills
Experienced in Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator and Premiere. 3D programs including Infini-D, and 3D Invigorator. Chyron systems such as Imagestore, Aprisa and Infinite. Also learning Dreamweaver and Flash. Other artistic abilities include freehand drawing, cartooning, sketching, air-brushing and oil painting. |