SUMMARY OF MEDIA ARTS SKILLS - Al Razutis

e-mail: alrazutis@ymail.com

Available on a contract or consulting basis

2D/3D WEB - MEDIA - INNOVATION - PRODUCTION:



motion picture media arts by Al Razutis
    2D/3D MOTION-PICTURE ARTS

  • Producer - Director - Writer - Cinematographer - Editor in motion-picture films.


  • Technical supervisor and FX innovator in motion-picture films and video.


  • Stereoscopic 3D video producer-director-videographer-editor.


  • 2D-3D Cinematographer in location and studio filming - recording.


  • Creator of panoramic 'Virtual Walk-Throughs' (QTVR, Ipix).


  • Expert in audio and video editing, special FX, compression (Premiere, AfterEffects, FCP).


  • Technical director for live media presentations.



2D and 3D webworks by   Al Razutis

media webworks by   Al Razutis
    2D/3D/ANIMATION WEB GRAPHICS and HTML - DHTML - VRML coder

  • Builder of custom-designed web sites featuring muti-media 2D and 3D content.


  • Builder of custom-designed user interfaces (Media Players) for web display of audio - video media.


  • Project lead in avatar animation with speech recognition - interaction with navigation and content.


  • Builder of 3D worlds (stereoscopic, virtual reality).


  • Web content developer - optimizing content for multiple platforms and bandwidth.


  • Photoshop and Flash graphic artist using a wide variety of authoring tools for graphics, media, 2D - 3D web.


  • Designer in 3D (Discreet - Max, VUE), VRML (Cosmo) and many other 3D authoring tools.


  • Code writing - keeping it simple, allowing full transparency to the client




holographic arts by Al Razutis
    HOLOGRAPHIC ARTS

  • Pioneer in art holography creations, exhibitions, display techniques.


  • Internationally exhibited and collected artist.


  • Author and pubisher of critical writings on holographic art.


  • Present works include pulsed laser holograms and sculptural installations.


  • Expert in holography - laser optics and imaging technologies.


education and writings by Al Razutis
    EDUCATION and WRITING

  • Educated in physics and math - continuing education through research and practice.


  • Substantial career as teacher, lecturer, professor in various universities and colleges.


  • Extensive background in writing and critical studies of media, including development of curriculum and course studies.


  • Past publisher - editor of two periodicals on film and holography, and author of critical essays.


  • Currently developing interactive educational-entertainment film projects in stereoscopic 3D and 3D game for consoles.


PROVEN ABILITIES IN:

·         Art Direction and Project Lead in 3D media projects involving content creation and delivery of dynamic (DHTML), media (audio - video), 3D (embedded - interactive graphics) and Flash (animation) elements.

·         Film and Video production - producer - director - writer - cinematorapher - editor - fx supervisor. Versed in all aspects of film and video production and post-production, and all genres (documentary, fiction, ads, shorts).

         Creative Direction - Lab Direction of a number of holographic art and commerce creations.

·         Multi-media art and design for interactive web media applications, cutting edge projects, future imaging technologies. Taking projects from concept to production to distribution with a long-term experience that draws on many intersecting skills in motion-graphics and art.

·         Team and project management, proven direction and production with a team of 2D and 3D graphics artists, animators, 3D modellers, flash programmers/animators, writers, working on cutting-edge speech-recognition and avatar response technologies (Bellevue, Washington).

·         Teaching - motivating - administering programs and budgets, with proven track record in academic (college, university) teaching positions in Washington, USA, and Vancouver, Canada.

·               Innovation in the production of multi-media art using 3D/2D web-graphics applications (SGI Cosmo,  Cult3D, Shout3D,  Adobe Suite, Macromedia Studio, Microsoft authoring programs), incorporating cutting-edge display technologies (Flash, streamed audio - video, Java applets, speech recognition graphics and virtual reality displays).

·               Award-winning art in motion-pictures (SD HD DV photography, editing, FX ), stereoscopic 3D video (field-sequential 3D photography, editing, FX) , holography (creation - exhibition), 3D virtual worlds  graphics-animation; involved in all aspects of production (writing, production, editing) and experienced in bringing concepts to successful conclusion.

Contact: Al Razutis