Skills Set
AdobeCC: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Flash, DreamweaverWeb Development: HTML5, CSS3, SVG, Javascript, Notepad++, WordpressVisual Effects: Lightwave 3D v8, Nuke, Final Cut, DVD Studio
Employment History
WhaleNet.org, Remotely in Whitter, CA for this Boston, MA non-profit. 2014 – Present Principal Developer - Front End Designer
Editor / Curator / Start Up - BAILA ZINE:
Technical Supervisor – Audio & Lighting:
Technical Director for this Monthly Poetry and Art Performance
Worked on preproduction and rehearsal planning
Ran Audio and Lighting for both In House and Remote Performances.
See the August 2014 Broome Room on Youtube
Lilli Muller & L.A. Parks and Recreation, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
Steven J. Brooks – Freelance 2D Visual Effects Artist, Glendale CA 2002 – 2011
2D Visual Effects Artist, Compositor and 3D animator
Notable Projects Include
The Last Samurai – Warner Bros.
The Vampire Diaries - CW
Man of the House - Columbia
The Drew Carey Green Screen Show – WB
The Guardian - Touchstone Pictures
Threshold - CBS
Dark Water - Touchstone Pictures
I’m Still Alive – UPN
Into the Blue – MGM / Columbia
Silent Warnings – Sci-Fi
Dragon Storm - Sci-Fi
Dark Waters – Sci-Fi
Epoch Evolution - Sci-Fi
Maximum Velocity - Sci-Fi
Steven J. Brooks – Freelance 3D Visual Effects Artist, Glendale CA 2010 – 2011
2D Visual Effects Artist, Compositor and 3D animator
Notable Projects Include
Clash of the Titans – Warner Bros.
Jackass 3D – MTV Films
Gulliver's Travels – 20th Century Fox
Shrek 2 - Dreamworks
Lilli Muller & L.A. Parks and Recreation, Los Angeles, CA, 2009
Projected 3D Stereo and 2D live footage
Projected original 2D Animated Characters
Illustrator / Cartoonist:
Composite Artist / 3D Animator / Web & Graphic Designer:
Composite Artist, Lead VFX Artist, “The Legend of Sasquatch”
Principal VFX artist on "The Last Sentinel"
Visual Effects and Motion Graphics on Promotional and Interstitial spots for Disney networks
Developed Promotional Website for “The Legend of Sasquatch”
Maintained company website GorillaPictures.net using Flash
Web Development I've maintained a presence on the internet since 1993, a WWW site since 1994, and a domain since 1997. I worked as a web developer in Web 1.0 days, on the front side, on graphics and interface.
I invite you to look at these sites I have built and currently run...
Notable Past Web Projects (inactive, or since redesigned)
Links Courtesy of the Internet Archives Wack Wayback Machine
"The Legend of Sasquatch" – Promotional-Awards Film Website, Flash, Gorilla Pictures 2007The B Company – Music Promotion, Flash Designer, Smorgasbord Productions 2004
The Feast Of San Gennaro – Event, Flash Designer, Smorgasbord Productions 2003
CB Sullivan Co - Beauty Supply - Assistant Designer, Company Skaal 1999-2000The National Guard - Youth Challenge Program, Interactive Map Dev., Company Skaal 1999-2000
Grant's Investor – Pay-walled Info Site Font End Assistant Developer Company Skaal 1999-2000
Boston Association Of Black Journalists – NABJ Regional Chapter Site, 1998 – 2001Staples – Online Catalog Image Preparation, Staples, 1997 - 1998
Education
Online Education
Course completion certificates from Lynda.com in:
Create an Animated Star Field with Edge Animate
Creating a Responsive Website Design
CSS Fundamentals
CSS: Gradients
CSS: Styling Navigation
Edge First Look
Edge First Look Preview 6
Foundations of Programming: Fundamentals
Getting Started with InDesign
HTML5: Web Forms in Depth
Installing and Running WordPress: WAMP
JavaScript Essential Training
Responsive Design Fundamentals
Start with a Theme: Photography Portfolios in WordPress
Start With a Theme: Twenty Fifteen
Start with a Theme: Twenty Fourteen
Up and Running with Adobe Creative Cloud
Web Motion for Beginners: Create a Parallax Effect
WordPress 3: Building Child Themes
WordPress 3: Creating and Editing Custom Themes
WordPress: Building Responsive Themes
WordPress Ecommerce
WordPress Essential Training
WordPress Mobile Solutions
WordPress Themes: Twenty Sixteen
CGI / Fine Artist L.A. is a large and aggressive art market. I have had the honor of being invited to select Group Shows, and commissions for Public Artwork. I was chosen Featured Artist - November 2008, for both for comic character based art, and conceptual and political work, by The L.A. Citizen Magazine
Notable Group Shows I have been invited / commissioned to participate in Los Angeles.
A partial list of Galleries / Art Spaces in Los Angeles where my work has been shown.
Past Awards, 20th Century.
Featured Cartoonist in Editorial Humor
Hometown Video Awards - Winner Massachusetts Cable Awards - Finalist
Cambridge Video Festival
SMPTE Regional Student Award in Animation
Tabloids & Zine Cartoonist in Boston, also 20th Century.
Editorial Humor
Minerva Magazine
Don't Shoot, It's Only Comics
Quimby
Abuse Magazine
