Eric J. S. Epstein
Email: ericepstein@earthlink.net
Website: http://www.najork.net/
Phone: (917)797-9734

OBJECTIVE
Seeking employment in production and or design; creative experience working toward an intended career as a director.



SKILLS
• Software
- Photoshop, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Electric Image, Elastic Reality, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Media 100, Microsoft Excel, and Director.
• 16mm film production; camera, sound, lighting, flatbed editing.
• Assorted consumer video formats and cameras, Canon XL1.
• A wide variety of traditional 2D and 3D media; airbrush, pen and ink, metal, acrylic, oil, charcoal, etc.

EXPERIENCE
• Sole animator/designer on 'MovieReal: The Aviator' for A&E/Viewfinder Productions.
• Creating animations of photos and printed material for A&E Biography/Black Canyon Productions.
• Freelance AE/PS artist for Saline Project/HSI Productions, on music video for Universal Records (Blue October) and a McDonald’s commercial.
• Lead visual designer and animator on a flash website for VeriLogix Inc.
• Menu animation for ‘Four Licks,’ a Rolling Stones live DVD set.
• Freelance AE/PS artist for gNET, working on the DRIV3R iGuide DVD.
• AE Freelancer for Red Car New York.
• Hi-Def Final Cut Editor for All In One Productions.
• Graphics for 'Bubba-Ho-tep' DVD documentary extras.
• Freelance motion graphics designer for InCite Pictures (for Court TV).
• Storyboard artist on NJ anti-smoking PSAs for Chelsea Pictures.
• Intern at Amoeba Proteus (visual research, concept art, scanning, VTR).
• Production assistant on several local video projects, commercial and otherwise.
• Three years (in high school) teaching a PTA workshop on cartooning for students in 3rd through 8th grade.
• Poster design and printing for the Denison Film Society.
• Designed T-shirts and supervised mural painting for high school events.
• Regular art contributions to school publications.

AWARDS AND HONORS
• Trophy winning video in the Rochester International Film Festival. – Spring 1998
• Student finalist in the 2002 Macworld Expo Digital Art Gallery.
• $1000 scholarship from Imation in a nationwide computer art competition. - April 1998
• Denison’s Vail Arts Scholarship and Heritage Scholarship. Fall 1998-Spring 2002
• Two silver keys, Rochester Scholastic Art Show, ceramics and metal sculpture. - February 1998

EDUCATION
• Bachelor of Arts, Denison University - 2002.
• Cinema Major with studio art concentration.
• Studied at the University of Westminster in London. -Fall 2000.
• Pre-College Art Program at Carnegie Mellon University. -Summer 1997.