Curt.reinert@gmail.com
Milwaukee, WI
262-388-0288

Skills

3D Modeling - High (for texture baking processes) and medium/low poly game assets
2D Design - Baking maps, digital painting, logo and user interface design, promotional material creation
Asset Pipelines - Using multiple avenues of creating 3D or 2D assets, compression tools, export procedures, and file management to test game assets in engine

Experience

Conceptualization - Asset Pipelines - Time Management - Team Player

Software

3DS Max - PhotoShop - Illustrator - Unity Game Engine

Career Highlights

Over 5 Years of 3D and 2D design at Guild Software including concepts, 3D modeling and texturing, script editing, email deliverable/promotional materials, asset server management, direct communication with CEO/Design lead and programmer, and minor programming duties for particle effects.

3 cumulative years of experience at Backlot Imaging including content management, quality assurance for multi-billion dollar clients, digital film restoration, 3D asset animation, visual effect/motion tracking animation and project management.

Print Operator

Imperial Communications

August 2018 - Current • New Berlin, Wisconsin

Skills: Illustrator, Photoshop, Keen eye for detail, Project appraisal

Imperial Communications services many high profile, globally recognized brands in delivering storefront displays, packaging of convention booth visuals, and other promotional assets. While this was a tangent from my previous job in 3D art, most of the principles of learning new software, time management, and problem solving helped me through what might have been an otherwise very rocky start. Illustrator and Photoshop are regularly used in various steps along the way to a completed deliverable alongside machine control and “ripping” software before printing. I was regularly tasked with creating dielines and product packaging for internal testing and client concepts.

Artist

Guild Software

April 2012 - December 2017 • Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

Skills: 3D Studio Max, PhotoShop, NAOS Game Engine, HTML, Customer Support

A small team of game developers building and sustaining a truly multi-platform space simulator MMO, Vendetta Online. My job changed daily from 3d modelling, 2d material editing, 2d design including email and promotional deliverables, minor scripting, and customer support tasks. Communication was also key with all of us relying on each other to update assets and hand them off or knowing what tasks needed to be completed within hours/minutes of needing them.

Digital Restoration and Visual Effect Artist

Backlot Imaging

February 2009 - May 2013 (4y 3m) • Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Skills: Time Management, Digital Artist, Pixel Farm, daVinci, Leadership, 3D Studio Max, PhotoShop, After Effects

Restoring film from chemical stains and scratches for HDTV broadcast and Blu-Ray media. Eventually, I lead the team in managing project pipelines(including shipping hard drives, workstation set-up, employee scheduling) and training new hires on industry standard software and quality expectations. I was also the final eye on the renders we sent out of cleaned film.
Films include: Planet of the Apes(1968), Miracle(2004),The Sugarland Express(1974), and All Quiet on the Western Front(1930) and several more.

I also created digital effects with After Effects, masking and tracking/Rotoscoping, in Hurlbut Visuals' "The Ticket".

Smaller, short term projects include animating and re-texturing 3D assets for advertisements, as well as editing assets for video production backdrops and layers.

Bachelors in Science

ITT Technical Institute

2006 - 2010 (4y) • Greenfield, Wisconsin

Skills from my degree: Project management, character development, video editing(After Effects and Premiere Pro), graphic design(Illustrator and Photoshop), rapid visualization, web design, 3D modeling and animation(3D Studio Max, Maya and Blender 3D).

Classmates and I also organized meet-ups and tutorials for creating our own game projects outside of classes.