Resume and Info about me...

A little about myself...

If you've seen the rest of my site, no doubt you can tell that I like to draw. I've been drawing pretty much since I could hold a pencil, and it's always been my favourite thing.

After high school, I attended the traditional animation course at Sheridan College near Toronto for 2 years. After which I moved to Montreal to join Ubisoft Entertainment's video games graphic studio. There I learned 3D animation, as well as several softwares used in the graphic industry. I feel I learned a tremendous amount as a graphic artist during my 3 years there. After that i moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia to work for Cage Digital, on a kids TV show for CBC called 'The Hippo Tub Company', the first season of which we just finished.

I'm 25 years old, and originally from Belleville, Ontario. I'm also a practicing musician; I play bass guitar, guitar, and drums. I also enjoy painting from time to time. I've done very little illustration professionally, but it too is a field I'm very interested in.

Thank you for checking out my site. If you would like to get in touch with me, please see my 'Contact Me' page.

Resume - Jamie Helman

EDUCATION

Graduated secondary school in 1995. Received Ontario Secondary School Diploma and 6 Ontario Academic Credits. Also received 2 awards for achievement in the field of visual art.

1995 - 1997 Completed 2 years of the traditional animation course at Sheridan College, where I learned such skills as classical animation filmmaking, storyboarding, layout, and character design.

EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND

February 1998 - August 2001
Computer Graphic Artist - Ubisoft Entertainment Montreal

During my career at Ubisoft I've fulfilled the following roles:
-3D Animator - 'Tonic Trouble' (N64)
-3D Animator - 'Rayman the TV Series' (released to video)
-3D Animator - cinematics for 'Jungle Book' (Playstation)
-Storyboard Artist and Animation Supervisor - cinematics for 'Donald Duck' (Playstation 2)
-3D Animator - cinematics for 'Batman' (Nintendo Dolphin)
-2D Flash Animator - Graphic Studio's internal website
-Storyboard Artist - cinematics for 'Tarzan' (Playstation 2, not yet released)
-Animation Supervisor - gameplay for 'Tarzan'

August 2001 - present
Computer Animator - Cage Digital, Halifax
3D character animator for TV series


SOFTWARE SKILLS

I have experience in the following softwares, in order according to the extent of my knowledge in each:

-3DStudio Max 4.1- Character Studio, BonesPro 2, Morphmagic - Experienced in animation, as well as some modelling
-Adobe Photoshop 6.0
-Macromedia Flash 4
-Adobe Premiere 6.0
-Adobe Illustrator 9.0

REFERENCES

Pascal Ruest
Lead Animator, Cage Digital Halifax
pruest@cagedigital.com

Trevor Hierons
Animation Director, Cage Digital Halifax
thierons@cagedigital.com