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Motion Graphics Designer Experience

Freelance
New York, Dec/04 to present
Art Director/ Animator

Designed, animated and composed graphics and photos, interactive pieces, websites, labels, video presentations and motion graphics for various clients:
- Grey Healthcare Group - Created DNA 3D models and animations for management presentation. (Nov/06)
- Duarte-Productions - Created website, poster, postcard and opening title for documentaries and logo and stationery for the company. (Dec/04- Dec/06)


Bloomberg Television
New York, Nov/97 – Oct/04
Motion Graphics Designer/Art Director/ Creative Artist

For 7 years created opening titles, idents, promotional pieces, virtual sets, backgrounds, automated graphics, wipes, over-the-shoulders, bugs and lower-3rds for worldwide television shows, using 3D-2D modeling animation, dynamics, image processing, tracking and compositing graphics with video and chroma-key shots.

Teaching Experience
• Currently giving privately classes in Photoshop and AfterEffects. (since 2005)
• Training artists and video editors in Maya, Photoshop, AfterEffects and in-house Bloomberg automated financial graphics softwares. (1997-2004)
• Created a course for beginners about creating sets considering the camera angles at Fluminense Federal University. (Brazil, 1993)

Medi-Cine
New York, Aug-Sept/97
Creative Designer / Animator

Created storyboards, 3D models, icons, textures, buttons and 2D-3D animations in archaeological Egyptian style for Evista CD-ROM sales training.


3D Wishes Multimedia
New York, Mar-Oct/97
Art Director / Animator

Created storyboards, 3D models, virtual sets, virtual sculptures, textures, icons, buttons and animations in Surrealist-Dada artistic style for CD-ROM and website. Animated 3D-2D countdown model and designed interactive pieces, corporate idents and logos.


Time Warner Cable, Broadband Applications
New York, Nov/95-Sept/96
Art Director / Animator

Created 3D models and animations for websites and pioneered interactive television products. Designed web graphic elements for faster navigation through Road Runner cable modem.

Technical Summary

Expertise in Maya, AfterEffects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, HTML, Real Flow, MotionBuider, ViconIQ, SoftImage, Premiere, Vegas, StrataSphere, CuriousWorld Maps, Inscriber CG Extreme, WinCue, DeBabelizer, Fontographer.
Cross-platform proficiency in Mac, Windows and Unix OS environments.


Education

 

Introduction to Motion Capture - Post-Sudies - New York University- New York, Spring 07
Master of Arts in Communication Arts / Computer Graphics - New York Institute of Technology - New York, 1994-6

BA in Social Communication / Cinema - Fluminense Federal University - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1982-6

School of Architecture 2 years at Buenos Aires National University - Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1975-6


Software Courses:

Training Course of Maya - New York University, School of Continuing Education – New York, Fall-01
Training Course of After Effects - Advanced level - New York, Fall-03

Art Courses:

Winterstone workshop - New sculpting medium with sculptor and creator Lorne P. Winters - New York, May 16-18/08
Bridgeview School - Advanced studies of Anatomy for Artists and Composition in Sculpture with mixed media
with Russian school artists Larisa Dekermendzhi and Vitaly Patrov - New York, July/2005- 06
The Educational Alliance - Beginning Welding. Basic techniques of creating metal sculpture. New York, 2002
The Art Students League of New York - Sculpture, modeling in clay from live models - New York, 2001-2
Atelier of Museum of Lasar Segall - Modeling in clay sculpture, painting and xylography - São Paulo, 1977-78
Etching Techniques - Course involving various etching techniques with Argentinian artista Mirta Ripoll - São Paulo, 1977
Pinacotheca of São Paulo State - Open classes of drawing live models - São Paulo, 1977-78
Ceramic & Painting Atelier - Artistic Modeling and painting ceramics and various art techniques with Argentinian artist Susana Algañaraz - Buenos Aires, 1972-74

 

Languages

Fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Conversational French.

 

Honors & Awards

3rd Place for sculpture Julie's Torso awarded by the Bayside Historical Society at Celebration of the Arts show - New York, june, 2006
• United States Government granted Ms Ivanissevich an O-1 visa based on extraordinary achievements in her field - October, 2002

PMS, A Shared Story, Masters project presented at SIGGRAPH ’96 for the Animator Sketches event - New Orleans, 1996

• 2-year full scholarship for the MA in Computer Graphics at NYIT by the Brazilian Ministry of Education - New York, 1994-95

Best Art Director Award for Get to Work, You Bum 2 at 19th Gramado Film Festival - Brazil, 1991

Stage Design and Wardrobe Nominations at the 2nd Coca-Cola Award of Children’s Theater for Little Frankenstein - Brazil, 1990

 

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