Evan Doran

 Work Experience

National Access Cannabis, Ottawa On

Contract Graphic Designer (May/2016 - Present)

Designing posters, banners, advertisements and other printable media used for marketing and advertising for various National Access Cannabis locations.

Cedarbrook Studios, Summerside PEI

Contract Artist, Designer, Marketing and Woodworker (June/2010 - Present)

Responsible for helping create art, painting, woodworking, marketing and advertising for Cedarbrook Studios in Summerside PEI.

Funky Fingers Productions, Summerside PEI

Lead Artist / Technical Artist (September/2012 - October/2016)

Worked as a Graphic Designer, 3D Artist, 2D Artist, Animator and Technical Artist responsible for giving direction and creating art, animations and effects for iPhone games and apps including the studios latest release Rapscallions and past releases Ice Slyder and Tyrunasaurus. Also responsible for assembling asset packs to be sold online on the Unity Asset Store. Funky Fingers asset packs have been included in the top selling and featured sections of the Unity Asset Store. Working for Funky Finger I was also responsible for creating marketing assets, youtube videos, trailers and materials to be used in advertising. A link to the asset store page is below.

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/search/page=1/sortby=popularity/query=publisher:12684

Other Ocean Interactive, Charlottetown PEI

Artist  

Worked as a 3D Artist on various games for IOS and PC including Maximum Archery The Game, Monsterology. Also worked in creating materials to be used in marketing and advertising as well as pre production and post production work including design documents, trailers and pitch documents.

Game Garage (Interactive Media Alliance), Charlottetown  PEI

Team Lead, 3D Environment Artist / Technical Artist / Designer / Marketer

Worked with a team of art and programming graduates to create a game prototype called Malicious for the Interactive Media Alliance on PEI while being mentored by local professional game developers Other Ocean Interactive, Bight and Telos. Also responsible for creating the game trailer and for helping raise awareness of our program and being our teams representative at the presentation to developers and chair members at the closing of the program.

Department of National Defense, Oromocto NB

3D Artist / Virtual Battle Space Simulator 2

Worked as a 3D Artist responsible for building 3D Models for the Department of National Defense to be used in training simulation programs as well as the 3d printers.

Miramichi River Tourism, Miramichi NB

Tourism Representative

Responsible for representing the interests of Miramichi and its local businesses at the tourist center helping connect tourists with destinations and businesses. Also responsible with being one of the bilingual reps during the acadian tourist week and french festival.

Skills

Graphic Design / Painting / Texturing (Photoshop, 3D Coat, Illustrator)

Marketing / Design / Advertising / Facebook / Twitter (Managed content and accounts in past jobs and created assets)

3D Modeling and Rigging (Maya, 3DS Max, Zbrush, Marmoset, xNormals, ndo, ddo)

Unity 3D / UDK (Setting up Levels, Creating Particles, Lighting, Animating, Building Asset Packs and Basic   Scripting using C#, C++, Java and Javascript in engines.)

Video Editing / Recording / Youtube (Open Broadcaster, DaVinci Resolve)

Experience as team lead with interviewing and project management responsibilities.

Bilingual English / French (French Immersion Grade 1-12)

        Education

1 Year Advanced Diploma in Applied Media Arts, (July /  2011) NBCC / Army Learning Support Center on Base Gagetown / Department of National Defense.

Applied skills learned in Level Design and 3D to on the job training at the Department of National Defense.  Also           taking courses such as the Army Ethics program and other business place training courses. Also earned certificates in Army Ethics and Public Speaking.

2 Year Diploma in Level Design and 3D Art, (June /  2010) NBCC

Taking courses to learn 3D Modeling, Rigging and Programming for game engines and animated features. Courses in Maya / 3DS Max / Unity / UDK / C++ / Javascript / Photoshop / Illustrator and Zbrush as well as business courses such as Project Management, Ethics, Interpersonal Communications, Quality Management and a work placement course.