August 2003 - May 2007
Monarch High School - Coconut Creek Florida
Swim Team 2005-2006
Physics Club 2006 - 2007
Art Club 2006 - 2007
August 2007 - May 2012
University of Central Florida - Orlando Florida
B.A. Digital Media Visual Language
Spent 4 Semesters on 5 minute Animated Short FIlm learning the animation pipeline from my professors who were ex Disney artists.
January 2010 - June 2010
University of Central Florida - Orlando Florida
The Spot Graphic Designer
Designed Graphics for various local businesses at an on campus print shop.
January 2012 - May 2012
Geomotion - Orlando Florida
Created 3d graphics for children’s educational content.
April 2013 - July 2015
Stereo D Stereo Compositor/ Depth Artist - Burbank California
Composited elements for stereo conversion
Developed Nuke tools to clean up motion blur on rendered depth maps.
Projects Include: Everest , Ant Man, Jurassic World, San Andreas, Mad Max Fury Road, Avengers Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , Hercules, X, Men: Days of Future Past , Godzilla, Transcendence , Captain America Winter Soldier, Need for speed, Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters, R.I.P.D
August 2015 - December 2018
Texas A&M - College Station Texas
M.S. Visualization
Graduate Thesis on NPR Rendering
Publications : Justice, Matthew; Akleman, Ergun "A Process to Create Dynamic Landscape Paintings Using Barycentric Shading With Control Paintings" SIGGRAPH 2018 Posters
January 2016 - December 2016
Texas A&M Graduate Assistant Open Access Labs - College Station Texas
Taught New Employee Training to students working in the open access labs as well as software training for the various applications available to students.
January 2016 - May 2019
Texas A&M Vizagogo Committee - College Station Texas
Organized annual student art exhibition in Downtown Bryan Texas.
Curated art submissions and Installed Artwork in pop up gallery setting.
Produced Promotional Content to advertise show to local community.
January 2016 - May 2016
Texas A&M Student SIGGRAPH Chapter Industry Relations Officer - College Station Texas
Brought Artist From Pixar to Texas A&M to give lectures and critiques to students of Visualization Department.
July 2016
SIGGRAPH Student Volunteer - Anaheim California
May 2016 - August 2016
Texas A&M Visualization Summer Industry Course Student - College Station Texas
Worked with DreamWorks artists as a student to create a short animated film.
January 2017 - May 2018
Texas A&M Visualization Pipeline TD Graduate Assistant - College Station Texas
Taught Undergrad and Grad students how to use the Linux / Mac pipeline which included Maya, Renderman, Nuke, and Rendering classes. Collaborated with professors on lesson plans and scheduling of assignments. Render Wrangler. Communicated Pipeline issues with College I.T..
April 2018 - August 2018
Texas A&M Visualization Graduate Teaching Assistant - College Station Texas
Assisted in the teaching of the Summer Industry Course with Pixar. Managed the production of Animated short films by four teams of Graduate Students by creating schedules and setting up biweekly meetings with the team at Pixar and daily check ins with the student teams. Taught Pipeline, Maya and Renderman lectures.
September 2018 - December 2018
Pixar Set Technology Intern - Emeryville California
OSL / GLSL shader development.
Created grass/leaf procedurals with OSL using a proprietary DSO architecture.
Projects: Soul
January 2019 - November 2019
Texas A&M Visualization Program Aide - College Station Texas
Assisted Director of Visualization with the various functions of the Department of Visualization.
Aided Students with Animation Pipeline and Photography Studios.
Helped Manage Student employees.
December 2019 - June 2020 / September 2020
Brazen Animation
Created textures using Substance Painter for characters and environments.
Lit shots using Maya and V-Ray and composited shots in Nuke.
Projects include: Magic the Gathering Mobile trailer, TeamFight Tactics Mobile trailer
