D.O.B: 23.10.1973
MARITAL STATUS : Single
NATIONALITY: British		 Neil Burton 2004
5/ MX / MX2006
SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE
· Flash v.4/5/6/7/8· Final Cut · After Effects
· Maya · DVD Studio Pro · Freehand
· Photoshop · Cinema 4D · Apple or PC
· Premiere · Dreamweaver · Windows 3.1 /95 /98
· Director · Adobe Encore · Windows NT /2000 /XP

LANGUAGES

 
ENGLISH: Mother tongue
GERMAN: Good working knowledge
FRENCH: Basic understanding and spoken
CAREER HISTORY
  







28/2/2005 Creative Digital Artist Teknical (member of Serco), Hessle, East Yorkshire (UK)

· Team Leader
· Flash MX 2004 / 8 / Action-script
· Photoshop
· Freehand
· E. Learning content creation


26/02/2004 Designer (6 months) Pencil Marks Design, Horsforth. UK (Part-time during studies)

· Image Manipulation / Pre-visualisation (3D, Photoshop)
· Web Design / Graphic Design (Flash, HTML, Quark, Premiere)
01/02/2001 Web Designer (18 months) CKV Multimedia/Property GmbH, Munich. DE

· 3D logo creation (Cinema 4D XL 7.3)
· Animation, Action-scripting, Web (Macromedia Flash 5)
· Macromedia Dreamweaver3 and Fireworks3
· Web graphics, Marketing material (Adobe Photoshop 7 / Image Ready)
· Marketing material & brochures (Quark, Photoshop)
· Multimedia presentations (Director 8.5 & DVD)


01/01/2000 Network Administrator (12 months) Kasten Consulting, Munich. DE

· Lotus Notes & Network Administration
· Web Design (Flash, Photoshop, Fireworks)


30/08/1992 IT Support Specialist (7 years) Clariant UK LTD, Leeds. UK

· Novell Netware & Network Administration
· Hard & Software Technical Support
QUALIFICATIONS
  
Abbey Grange C of E High School, Horsforth, Leeds. 1987 - 1990.
Eight GCSE's taken, grade "C" achieved for Mathematics and English also a "Distinction" for Information Technology.


Leeds College of Art and Design
City Centre, Leeds. 2002 - 2004
Higher National Diploma in Multimedia: GRADUATED 2004



THE DIPLOMA
 

HND
still from "Yellow Peril" 3D animation brief, Maya (See links opposite).
Still from DVD introduction, MM Design & Authoring.
Final image, cultural interpretation brief.
2D, 3D, 4D brief. Animated in Cinema and presented using Director.

Of the fifteen modules I gained Distinctions in ten and Merits in the remainder.

The two main 3D animation projects were : 2D3D4D and 3D Animation.

MODULE TITLE
GRADE
Computer Applications in Art & Design
Merit
Multimedia Principles
Merit
2D, 3D, 4D Applications
Distinction
Animation Techniques
Distinction
Image Manipulation
Distinction
Multimedia Design & Authoring
Merit
3D Modelling & Animation
Distinction
Cultural Interpretation
Merit
Video Post Production & Editing
Distinction
Multimedia Web Authoring
Merit
Interface Design
Distinction
Professional Team Brief
Distinction
Multimedia Professional Practice
Distinction
Audio Visual Techniques
Distinction
Computer Fundamentals
Distinction
INTERESTS
  
  I enjoy photography, fishing, 3D modelling and practicing where possible my German.

Some of my works have appeared in 3D World, Digit, Computer Arts Graduate Showcase (2004), New Design, Practical Photography and Der Fliegen Fischer magazines.