Matti Turtiainen AAA

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Employment Objective

To contribute to a company or project that would benefit from my exceptional modelling and animation skills, and my knowledge of human anatomy

Personal Details

Nationality: Finnish

Born: 0-0-0

Work Preferences

Position(s) interested in: Art Director, Lead Animator, Lead Artist, Animator, 3D Artist, Modeler

Kind of employment: Employee, Free-Lance

Type of work: Full Time

Minimum gross (yearly) salary required: $50,000+

Willing to work in: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland

Education

Education history:

1997	Free Art Academy, Berlin: Traditional art education
1998	Silicon Studio, Berlin: 3D-Designer

Skills

Computer graphics skills:

Modeling		Excellent
Texturing		Excellent
Lighting		Excellent
Animation		Excellent
Composition & Post-processing		Good

Software skills:

Other skills or training: With a classical art backround, I have excellent sculpting and modeling skillls and a gifted eye for what looks good and what looks alive.

Softimage 3D, XSI : , excellent modeling skills, specially organic forms, human body, realistic facial expressions. Excellent animation skills, specially character rigging, complex enveloping, 2D motion capture. Excellent lightning&texturing skills, texturemapping, skin tones, layers, substance characteristics

Mental Ray: good experience using shaders,transparencies and distributed rendering

Maya: basic knowledge, expecting to master it in the near future

3D Studio Max, basic knowledge

Adobe Photoshop: very good skills, automated droplets for image sequence processing

Adobe After Effects: very good skills, creating and using filters, importing Photoshop filters, working with layers

Apple Quicktime VR, Very good skills, producing QTVR objects with 3D software

Professional Experience

Experience: between 6 and 10 years

Work history:

1998-5 to 1998-12	3D Artist (freelance) at interActive Systems GmbH
1999-1 to 2001-2	Lead 3D Artist at interActive Systems GmbH
2001-3 to 2003-9	3D Artist at Freelance

Other Interests

Architecture, photography, building restoration, languages, travel, winter and water sports, fast cars

Other Details

I am looking for, at best, extreme challenges in terms of photorealism or natural human "aliveness" in modelling and animation. I would love to work in various parts of the world, for freelance projects, or in an exceptional company as well long term.

Portfolio

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	Facial muscles modelled, textured, animated. More at www.hamow3d.com © www.interactive-systems.de
	Facial nerves © www.interactive-systems.de
	Spinal cord with some vertebrae © www.interactive-systems.de