Resume — NEIL TAYLOR

Objective

My goal is to overlap my love of film making, technology, and problem solving in a company that shares my enthusiasm for great visual storytelling.

Remove wrinkles, dust, and blemishes from product, apparel or model without compromising the texture.

Generated 3D renders of product according to the specifications of the Creative Director.
Worked closely with the editor to assure the assets I delivered met his required specifications.

Remove wrinkles, dust, and blemishes from product, apparel or model without compromising the texture.
Address client requests to change color or design details of apparel.

Remove rigs from stop motion animation footage on Missing Link.
Remove seams from the faces of stop motion puppets.
Remove dust from footage.
Repair "chatter" from faces.
Make all edits consistent in stereo, so the left and right eye edits are identical.

Visual Effects Producer on the film Neil Stryker and the Tyrant of Time, an award-winning independent science fiction feature film available now through Amazon Prime. Specifically, I modeled flying vehicles in Maya, rendered them with Pixar’s RenderMan, and composited them into environments with Adobe After Effects.
Created a motion comic experience for the independent graphic novel, No’madd. It has yet to be released publicly. I brought the pages to life using animation and motion graphics techniques using Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere and Audition.
Directing an ongoing short CG project between gigs called Neon Blue. It is a retro futuristic reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with robots.
Co-Directed a feature film, Evil Cult.

Rotoscoped out text from instructional medical videos and replaced it with text translated into other languages using After Effects.
Retimed videos with translated audio and picture using Premiere.
Engineered hours of audio for government contracts using Audition.
Rebuilt E-Learning classes in other languages using Articulate Storyline.
Authored custom made CD mailers for visually impaired voters to listen to before voting in the election.

For four years, I maintained a high level of detail and consistency while processing thousands of 3D printed faces for stop-motion puppets on The Boxtrolls and Kubo and the Two Strings.
Pulled powder based parts and resin based parts off printers on a daily basis.
Each face needed a unique approach for reinforcing, scraping, sanding, dipping in glue, magnetizing, glossing, and dulling before it was ready to deliver to the face library.
Met multiple deadlines per day, making shot deliveries that were essential to keeping the production on schedule.
Communicated with my team, the model shop, the RP production team, the face librarians, and supervisors to assure satisfaction on all sides and a quick turnaround.

Missing Link won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature.
Member of Laika's Rapid Prototype department which won a Science and Engineering Academy Award.
“Best VFX” award for Neil Stryker and the Tyrant of Time at the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival 2016.