Jon Cipriano

Character/Environment /Texture Artist

8419 Ridgelea St			 214. 350. 5933                        jcipriano74@comcast.net
Dallas,Tx 75209                                         http://students.guildhall.smu.edu/~jcipriano/


SKILLS

? IQ workstation
? Microsoft office suite
? Sourcesafe
? Tortoise

 Software
? 3d studio max 5, 7,8 
? Adobe Photoshop CS
? Zbrush2 
? Corel Painter 9 
? Maya 7.0

Engines Used

? UnrealEd
? 2d side scrolling Game Dev Kit
? Hammer
 ?Call of Duty Radiant 



GAME EXPERIENCE

Guildhall At SMU                                             

Weekday Warrior:  Half-Life Source Engine			                                       January - June 2006
Third Person Adventure/Puzzle
· Textured three characters
· Modeled, Textured, and Imported  17  world objects
· Tweaked Level designers textures  
· Motion Captured five character animations
· Created 4 custom animations
· Created concept art for Level and characters

SandStorm: Call of Duty Engine				                                   June – December 2005
First Person Shooter/Action
· Modeled, Textured, and  created  first person gun animations
· Created seven interchangeable accessories
· Created custom texture for  50 cal sniper rifle, AK47, Dragnov sniper rifle, RPG-7 , 
		· Import Pipeline for first person weapons and weapon animations
· Created concept art for the players and guns

 Mythos:  Unreal Technology                                                                                               March – June 2005
                              First Person Shooter/Multi-Player
		· Conceptualized all art
		· Modeled, Textured, and Rigged custom character
		· Modeled, Textured, Rigged, and Animated custom weapon 
		· Created all HUD elements
		· Designed game logo, promotional materials, and website



Jon Cipriano

Character/Environment /Texture Artist

8419 Ridgelea St			 214. 350. 5933                        jcipriano74@comcast.net
Dallas,Tx 75209                                         http://students.guildhall.smu.edu/~jcipriano/



Junkyard Spawn, Reziom Run,  S13                                                                               January – March 2005           
                           Scrolling Game Dev Engine						        
	              2D Side Scrolling Action Platformer
		· Conceptualized all art
		· Hand animated main character – 1 sprite with 15 animations
                             · Hand animated three enemy characters – 3 sprites with 8 animations
                             · Designed game logo, promotional materials, DVD cover, and game design document
		· Art Lead
· Created all HUD assets

WORK EXPERIENCE

HELP DESK Level 2                                                                                           January 2002 – October 2003
Computer Merchant Corp.  -  Dallas ,TX
· Worked as a Level 2 team lead
· support for Turner Construction Corporate Offices nationwide and internationally
· Provided hardware and software support as well as creating problem tickets for network and  server outages.

HELP DESK Team Lead                                                                                               May 2000 – June 2001                                              
Computer Sciences Corp. – Las Colinas, TX
· Worked providing Team Lead support for a three person team
· Supported multiple applications for Raytheon Systems
· Created problem tickets for router and network outages


EDUCATION

Guildhall at SMU – Plano, TX
Major: Certificate in Digital Game Development, specialty in Art Creation 
 

Brookhaven Community College – Farmers Branch, TX
Major:  Art (Drawing and Painting)
GPA:  2.8

North Lake Community College - Irving, TX
Major: Computer Information Systems, LAN
GPA:  3.2

University of North Texas - Denton, TX
Major: Fine Arts (Drawing and Painting) 1994-1995
GPA: 3.0




 
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