Reverie Productions Todd Carson's Bio Page

TODD CARSON
GRAPHIC ARTIST
1-866-REVERIE
1-818-468-7624

Designer - April 2004 – October 2005
New Wave Entertainment
DVD Design on: “Star Wars Episode III”, “Stealth”, “Carlito's Way: Rise to Power”, “Constantine”, “The Big Lebowski” Special Edition, “Batman Begins”, “Batman” DVD Set, “New Jack City”, “Nip Tuck”, “Miami Vice” Season 2, “Gilligan’s Island”, “Harry Potter 3”, “Heat” Special Edition, “Shawshank Redemption” Special Edition, “Kicking and Screaming”, “Wonder Woman”, “Las Vegas”, “Scooby Doo 2”, “Wacky Racers”, “Wonderfalls”, “Smallville” and “X-Men Evolution”

Created broadcast graphics for: Discovery Channel’s “Animal Trax”, Discovery Channel’s “Wild Kingdom”, “Houdini” A&E Special, Nintendo DS “ Spyro Shadow Legacy”, Dane Cook “Cooked”, Greg Behrendt “Greg Behrendt is Uncool”, “Friday Night Lights” BET Special, “Spiderman 2”, Toon Disney “End Pages”, Toon Disney “Mega Recess Marathon”, Toon Disney “Birthday House of Mouse”, “Democratic National Convention”

Feature Film Promo’s on: “King Arthur”, “Mr. 3000”, “Princess Diaries 2”, “Kid Genius's”, “80 Days”, “Napoleon Dynamite”, “Notebook”, “Harold and Kumar”, “Garfield”, “The Day After Tomorrow”, “Ladder 49”, “Garden State”, “The Bourne Supremacy”, “Alien vs. Predator” and “IROBOT”

Designer - October 2005
Video Box Studios
Bravo “Tabloid Wars”

Art Director - Currently In Production
“Accidental Addict”
A one-hour television special

Art Director - Currently In Production
“Being Born”
A three-hour series set to premiere in 2006

Art Director - February - 2004
Reverie Productions
Title Open

Freelance LightWave Artist - January 2004
Hybrid Studios
Title open for “Cheese Boys” a television series currently in development

Art Director - April 2002
“The Last Editor”
Art direction and Main Title Open for the award-winning documentary feature

Freelance LightWave Artist - July 2002
Hybrid Studios
Modeling and texturing the main building for a television series pitch to Marvel Comics

Digital FX Artist - June 2002
“The Gamers”
Opening motion graphic titles for a USC student film

Art Director - 2000 - 2004
“The Living Century”
Art direction and design of elements for print and broadcast for the award-winning ongoing PBS television series

Graphic Artist - November 2000
YC/MC Ltd.
Designed the book cover and digitally restored all of the images for Yvonne Craig’s “From Ballet to the Batcave and Beyond”

EDUCATION

Video Symphony
Completed a 3D Visual Effects and compositing certificate

UC Santa Barbara
Completed Graphic Design, New Media Design and Web Master Certificates

My strongest skill is compositing. I am also proficient rotoscoping, matte creation, morphing, dust-busting, blue, green screen removal, 2D tracking and 3D match-moving. I prefer integrating live-action with 3D elements to create a photo- realistic look. I have experience with the following programs.

Compositing with After Effects, Shake, Commotion and Combustion. Matchmoving with Boujou, PF Track. Modeling, texturing, lighting, animating, particle effects and rendering with LightWave 3D and Maya. Graphic design, typography, interface design, texture creation, web site and photo restoration with Photoshop and Illustrator. Editing with Final Cut Pro. Web site coding with DreamWeaver and BBEdit. Video encoding with Compressor.

Extensive knowledge of Mac OS and Windows.