SUMMARY OF SKILLS - Al Razutis

e-mail: alrazutis@yahoo.com

Available on a contract or consulting basis

2D/3D WEB - MEDIA - INNOVATION - PRODUCTION:
  • 2D/3D MOTION-PICTURE ARTS

  • Stereoscopic 3D Video producer-director-videographder-editor.
  • Cinematographer in location and studio filming - recording.
  • Award winning accomplishments in directing, producing, cinematography, editing, and writing.
  • Creator of panoramic 'Virtual Walk-Throughs'.
  • Creator of Quick-Time VR Interactive vistas - 360 degree views.s
  • Expert in audio and video editing, special FX, and compression.
  • Working with streamed audio and video in a variety of formats.
  • Building custom-designed user interfaces (Media Players) for web display of audio - video media.
  • Enabling speech recognition - interaction with navigation and content.
  • Including all web media formats, including 3D (stereoscopic, virtual reality).
  • Developing specific strategies for content delivery.
  • Optimizing content for multiple platforms and bandwidth.
  • HOLOGRAPHIC ARTS

  • Pioneer in art holography creations, exhibitions, display techniques.
  • Internationally exhibited and collected artist.
  • Present works include pulsed laser holograms and future installations.
  • Expert in holography - laser optics and imaging technologies.
  • THREE DIMENSIONAL ARTS

  • Creaor of 3D theatrical sets, models.
  • Creative and technical director of interactive avatars in a number of display formats.
  • Animation in Flash, Director, Gif Construction, applet and 3D (Max, Cosmo) software.
  • Designing - Producing CD-ROMs and DVDs.
  • Expert in stereoscopic 3D cinematography and editing.
  • 2D/3D/ANIMATION WEB GRAPHICS and HTML - DHTML CODE creation - revision

  • Using a wide variety of authoring tools for graphics, media, 2D - 3D web.
  • Graphics designer - specialist; repair-revise inferior graphics.
  • Specialist in Adobe (Graphics Suite, Video), Macromedia (MX, Studio, Flash).
  • Designer in 3D (Discreet - Max, VUE), VRML (Cosmo) and many other 3D authoring tools.
  • Working with administrators in configuring front-end and server back-end compatability
  • Code writing - keeping it simple, allowing full transparency to the client
  • 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.
  • Currently developing interactive educational-entertainment projects.in LF 3D and 3D game for consoles.

RESULTING IN EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCE 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 (16mm film -  video - 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