BIO & CONTACT
Cristian (Chris) “Freespace” Ciocotisan
Email: freespace87@gmail.com
Phone: Available upon request
Current residence: Romania, Cluj Napoca (GMT+2)
Objectives:
- Work on groundbreaking animations and visual effects, pushing forward the sci-fi and fantasy genre
- Be a part of a group of fun, creative people striving to create amazing content and raising the bar
- Keep growing as an artist and a person, and mastering the tools at my disposal
Work Experience:
July 2010 – Present
VFX artist at IT Media Studio:
- All VFX and CG work in company Demo Reel
- Post processing and VFX in various projects
February 2010 – Present
Freelancer:
- Senior VFX artist for Eurovision 2010: Romania’s National Music Video:
- Color correcting footage
- Motion capture cleaning
- Camera tracking and rotoscoping
- Creating and integrating robotic characters into the clip
- Visual effects and motion graphics for the clip
- Samsung C3050 and E2120 commercial (CG phones)
May 2009 – Present
StarCraft Legacy Content Staff:
- Working on the StarCraft Final Metamorphosis cinematic
- Created the StarCraft First Contact cinematic
- Contributed art for the website interface
April 2008 – Present
3DTotal forum Moderator:
- Monthly Sculpting Challenge administrator
- Responsible for the Animation, Final Art and General Software sections
- Spam nemesis, thread cleaner and peace keeper
February 2008 – February 2010:
Lead artist (generalist) at Tractor Media:
- Storyboard creation
- Unreleased sci-fi cinematic/short film
- Several architectural visualization projects (including all exteriors shots for The Shore Club hotel in Panama)
- All exterior scenes in Propellerhat short film
- Dealing with clients – setting deadlines – organizing project workflow – training new staff
2006 – 2007:
Freelancer:
- Bechtel Transylvania highway project commercial:
- Color correcting footage
- Camera tracking
- Integrating a CG finished highway over the real unfinished highway
- Various local architectural visualization projects
- CG intro for Imagine Cup 2007 world finalist team UBB921
- Top Down 2D Space Shooter game “Newspace Blackstar” (published in XtremPC)
- Creating and integrating CG kangaroo character into local juice brand commercial, Best Gama
October 2005 – December 2005:
Junior artist (modeling, animation) at Firma 9:
- Asset modeling for the RTS game Left Behind Eternal Forces
- Sci-fi characters for company demo reel
- Animating characters for commercials
March 2005 – May 2005:
Freelancer:
- All CG cinematics for the game Silverwings
- Genex air conditioner CG ad for Hungarian channel
Education:
- 2007-2010:
Bachelor’s Degree in Arts at the University of Arts and Design “Ioan Andreescu” Cluj Napoca (Photography and Video specialization)
- 2005-2007:
University of Letters “Babes-Bolyai” Cluj Napoca (English Norwegian) – unfinished
- 2001-2005:
“Iuliu Maniu” Carei Highschool (Mathematics & IT specialization)
Awards / Certificates:
- Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (graded A)
- 2009 – 3DTotal homepage feature: StarCraft First Contact
- 2008 – Alba FilmFestival – Special Prize for Animation: Propellerhat
- 2008 – Cluj FilmFestival – 2nd Place in Animation: Propellerhat
- 2008 – Imagine Cup World-Top 32: Propellerhat
- 2006 – Cluj PcParty – Grand Prize: T.I.T.A.N. Genesis
- 2006 – 3DTotal Speed Animation Challenge: Race/Chase – 1st Place: Speed Factor
- 2005 – Cluj PcParty Autumn Edition – 1st Place in Animation: Destiny Void
- 2005 – 3DTotal Speed Animation Challenge: Swing – 2nd Place: The Swing
- 2005 – Cluj PcParty Spring Edition – 2nd Place in Animation: Nemesis
- 2003 – Cluj PcParty – 1st Place in Animation: Jovian Wars
Software Experience:
- 3ds Max 2010 (Mental Ray, Scanline)
- Mudbox 2010 (Wacom Intuos 4 and mouse)
- Photoshop CS4
- After Effects CS4
- Unfold3D
- Audacity
- Boujou
Relevant Skills:
- High-resolution modeling, sculpting, unwrapping and texturing
- Basic rigging, skinning and animation
- Basic concept art, storyboard art and matte painting
- Compositing and visual effects
- Camera tracking and matching, mocap cleaning
Languages:
- Romanian (native)
- English
- French (basic)
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