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Tom Burns
308 Ferry Street
Fall River, MA 02721
USA
phone: (508) 673-4802
email: tom@tomburnsportfolio.com
GOAL:
To work in a company or studio producing
quality games, graphic design and digital illustration.
EXPERIENCE:
Alpha Omega Games - Lead Artist
April 2008 to September 2008
Duties included establishing the look to terrains,
props, textures and models for a cross-country
motorcycle racing game.
After 6 months Alpha Omega ceased production due
to lack of funding.
Rebellion (Derby) Ltd.
- Environment Artist
February 2007 to July 2007
Duties included building landscapes (organic and urban)
as well as objects and textures for an as-yet-unannounced
next-gen FPS/Horror title.
NOTE: Due to Rebellion's inability to obtain a UK work
visa for me, I had to leave the UK after 6 months.
Relic Entertainment
- Environment Artist
November of 2004 to November 2006
My duties at Relic included creating both urban
and natural terrains for:
Warhammer: Dawn of War - Winter Assault (PC)
Warhammer: Dawn of War ñ Dark Crusade (PC)
The Outfit (XBOX 360)
In addition to environment creation, I also model
and texture new objects to be used in these
landscapes.
Vicarious Visions
- Texture Artist
November of 1999 to November of 2001
Games credits: Terminus (partial box
art) Polaris Snocross (PSX & N64) and ESPN
Snocross (UI Designer position). UI Design for
Snocross 2000 (PS2 & XBox). Unfortunately due to
circumstances beyond VV's control, the game was
never shipped.
My responsibilities included creating realistic
textures (environmental and mechanical) for
Polaris Snocross on PlayStation and N64.
In addition to my texture artist duties, I was
more and more called upon to design logos, box
designs and other pieces due to my graphic
design experience.
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Freelance Graphic
Designer
April 1993 to present
During this time, I have designed
corporate identities for Ground Zero
Web Hosting, RicciSoft Software,
CareersForGamers.Com, AnandTech and
illustrated CD covers for local bands
Soul Tattoo and Lovechain. These are
just a few among the many clients I have
worked for.
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JetForm Corporation
Graphic Designer
May 1997 to May 1998
Straight after
graduating from Algonquin
College, I was hired to maintain and produce
both animated and static graphics for the
JetForm website (www.jetform.com). It should
be noted that the actual look of the site
was created by another designer at JetForm.
Along with website production, my duties also
included producing print graphics for a wide
variety of purposes that JetForm required.
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Canadian Museum of Civilization
Graphic Designer
May 1996 to September 1996
Here, I was part
of a 12 person team that
updated and catalogued the museum’s photo
archives from analog laser disks to a
digital format.
While doing this, I was also involved with
Canada Post in an interactive CD project.
My responsibilities were to transfer their
complete photographic records of all of
Canada’s stamps to a digital computer
format which involved extensive retouching
and colour-balancing of photographs in Photoshop.
The final product was to be used in the
interactive CD that was designed for children.
After the archives were digitized, I assisted in
the design of a web page to advertise the CD
for the Museum and Canada Post.
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Biddle & Cranny Advertising
and Marketing
Intern
May 1995 to September 1995-
While I was here,
I designed the 1995/96
newspaper advertising campaign for Little
Critters pet stores. This included both design
and copywriting.
From November 1992 to April
1993-
I served here for
the first time on a Futures
work experience program. During this time I
wrote copy and designed layout comps for The
National Arts Centre, Coscan Homebuilders and
the Westgate Shopping Centre. I also helped
design print, radio and television ads for the
1993 Gloucester Fair.
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Malak Photographs
assistant
October 1990 to December 1990
My responsibilities
were to set up and dismantle
lighting equipment, aid the photographer during
shooting sessions and drive the photographer and
equipment to and from locations.
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EDUCATION:
I attended Algonquin College
in the two year Graphic
Design course beginning in 1995.
I received my diploma in May 1997.
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COMPUTER SKILLS:
I have extensive experience
in these software programs:
Adobe Photoshop CS3 (PC & Macintosh)
Adobe Illustrator CS3 (PC & Macintosh)
Macromedia Freehand 10
Adobe Acrobat 3.01
CorelDraw 7
Corel PhotoPaint 7
CorelXara 2.0
Strata 3DPro
3D Studio Max 9
Maya 8.5 (since 02/2007)
REFERENCES:
Andy Lang
Art Director
Relic Entertainment
Phone: 604-801-6577 ext. 7190
Email: alang@relic.com
Ian Cumming
Senior Artist
Relic Entertainment
Phone: 604-801-6577 ext. 7124
Email: icumming@relic.com
Nehme Frangie
17 Glenbrook Dr.
Clifton Park, NY 1206
Cell Phone: 518-281-7318
Phone: 518-383-2659
Email: nehmefrangie@aol.com
Jay Young
Phone: (607)733-3996
Email: jayyoung@stny.rr.com
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