September 28, 2009

Welcome to C.Rhodes Design.

Chris Rhodes

Twitter: @CRhodesDesign

About Me:
I have just graduated from Leeds College of Art with a BA (Hons) in Digital Film, Game and Animation. Between studies I was a graphic designer for Scientific Games International, for almost 4 years. After leaving that industry in 2009 I went back to college to develop my creative skills further in other areas.

Software Skills:
- Autodesk Maya.                        - Adobe Photoshop.
- Autodesk Mudbox. (Basic)       - Adobe Illustrator.
- Unity Game Engine.                 - Adobe After Effects.
- Final Cut Pro.                            - Adobe InDesign (Basic)

Experience:
PushingPolygons Studios: January 2012 – Present
Indie game developers created during my final year at college with some fellow classmates. I serve as team leader, project manager, story/character developer and lead modeler. Primarily developing games for the iOS platform.

ScientificGames International: July 2005 - February 2009
This was a small graphics team of 5 within the company, each designer had there our own specific countries they would be designing for as well as all working on Camelot, the leading UK agency for lottery scratch cards and run the National Lottery. The countries I worked on were Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland and Thomson Airlines. Once I had designed a ticket I would show the manager before emailing it onto the account manager to forward onto the client. From there I would amend though emails until the ticket was finished.
I also attended many idea-forming sessions in London for Camelot; here we would plan out the next years worth of tickets.
I would also on occasion be asked to produce posters for advertising certain ranges of tickets.

Fuse 8: April 2005
Work placement. Here I helped design and develop adverts for magazines and newspapers, for a wide range of clients from property developers to beverage companies. This taught me how to develop ideas fast whilst keeping a high level of work.

Employment:
Scientific Games International: Graphic Designer. July 2005 - February 2009

Education:
Leeds College of Art.
      BA (Hons) Digital Film, Game and Animation.  September 2009 - July 2012
      HND Multimedia. September 2003 - July 2005
      ND Graphic Design. September 2001 - July 2003

John Smeaton Community High School. 9 GSCE’s

Interest and Hobbies:
Outside of the creative environment I like to keep myself active at the gym, as I find this a good way of clearing my head and forming new ideas.
I also collect comic and graphic novels, and have done for over 10 years; such as Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, DMZ, Y The Last Man. I find this a great way of getting visual ideas/ for all age groups.
I try and keep my design skills up-to-date and create my own designs either in illustrated/graphic form or developing my 3D.

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