CV of Florence Richer
Skills
- High poly subdivision modelling
- Low poly modelling
- UV mapping
- Rigging
- Animation
- 3D character animation
- Dynamics
- Motion graphic design
- Storyboarding and developing concepts
- Drawing in pencil & charcoal
- Painting in oils & acrylic of human body
- Fluent in English and French (mother tongue), Spanish (advanced knowledge)
Software Knowledge
| Application | Experience |
| Maya | 4 years |
| 3D Studio Max | 6 years |
| cinema 4D | 3 years |
| Lightwave 3D | 5 years |
| Adobe Photoshop | 5 years |
| Deep Paint 3D | 2 years |
| Adobe After Effects | 5 years |
| Adobe Premiere | 5 years |
| Flash | 5 years |
| Dreamweaver | 5 years |
| Swift and Illustrate | 1 year |
| illustrator | 1 year |
| Final Cut Pro | 2 years |
| ZBrush | 1 year |
Professional experience
August 2008 to Present:
Position held: 3D Designer/concept artist/motion graphic designer
compagny: Viasat
Motion graphics work for TV promo
company: Bird Studio
I built outside background and animated stereoscopic camera for an architectural project presentation.
company: Banana split
Advert for the UEFA Champions League and LIDL.
company: Th1ng/
I have built and animated realistic ocean scenes for a short film using fluids and particles
Pitch for Sherlock Holmes, Dubai One(Channel TV), Fisherman's friends.
company: Cimex
I built and textured a stylized city that I exported from Maya using Collada plug in. The city was then imported into Flash.
company: Sonique
Rock commercial for Universal.
Company: HybridEye
Concept and design of their new logo.
Company: Justin Allison
3D engineering work. I built and animated mechanical prototypes for educational training.
Company: Bio
I designed their logo, visit card, flyer and website.
Company: FK3
I designed and built in 3D an exhibition stand for a Sandisk event based in Germany.
Company: Abbot Mead Vickers BBDO
3D work for a National Lottery advert.
Company: Citi Group
Concept and storyboard for a Citi Group advert.
Company: Triangle TV
3D animations for two Homebase adverts.
Company: PWC
I designed and built a TV Set for their News channel.
July 2006 to July 2008:
Position held: 3D designer/Motion Graphic designer
Company: Home Choice/Tiscali
I worked on the video promotions for music and children channels. My work involved working on the concept of the promotion and overseeing the scripts before creating the animations, making the storyboard and animatics, preparing the scenes, modelling and animating the 3D elements as well as post production work. I was responsible for presenting ideas on the designs and animations for the promotions.
December 2007 to February 2008:
Position held: senior 3D designer/senior motion graphic designer
Company: HybridEye
Project: Animation for Oracle conference 2008, Animation for Intel conference 2008, animation for Disney
I was responsible for creating the storyboard and the animation presented at the beginning of the Oracle conference. For an Intel conference I made an animation which was shown on a Mitrex screen for the closure of the conference. The animation was part of a presentation where it had to fit with the performance of dancers and lighting effects.
I made the storyboard and animated two different logos for the Disney company.
January to July 2006:
Position held: Director/Animator/Modeller
Company: Pintsize
Project: Music video
This was a short 3D animation. I wrote the story, designed, built and animated the project. The animation was selected for the End of the Pier International Film Festival 2007, the Strawberry Fair Film Festival 2007 and the Angel Film Festival 2007. Cherryade
Position held: Storyboard Artist/Modeller/Animator
Company: Hybrideye
Project: Intel conference 2006
I animated the opening sequence for an Intel conference for 2006.
November to December 2005:
Position held: Concept Artist/Character Modeller
Freelance Project
I designed and built in Maya characters for a 3D animated pilot.
Position held: Modeller
Freelance work
I modelled vehicles for a racing motorbike game.
October 2005:
Position held: Designer/Modeller/Texturer
Freelance work
I designed built and textured Digitalis One, a space city for the feature film “Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth” by Simon Davidson. Captain Eager
July 2004 to October 2005 :
Position held: Set and Prop Modeller/Character
Modeller/Texturer/Animator/Rigger
Company: Consortium of Gentlemen
Project: Animated children's TV series
I worked for the animated children's TV series “Dusty and Musty” for The Consortium of Gentlemen (produced by Hit entertainment). I was responsible for building an entire museum and its contents, with many different rooms, where the story takes place. I have worked both to the designs of others and with my own designs and layouts. I have built organic and non-organic models such as animals and cars, and the principal characters of the show. I also worked on rigging characters and vehicles, mapping, texturing with Deep Paint and Photoshop, setting up cameras in the scenes according to the storyboards and rendering the scenes. As a promotion for the show I designed and animated a fly through of the entire set.
April to June 2004 :
Position held: Director/Modeller/ Animator
Freelance work
I worked on a short comic animation film based on the Grace Jones' song 'La Vie en Rose'. I created and designed the character and set, wrote the storyboard, animated and rendered the finished film. The work contains a lot of lip-syncing as the central character sings parts of the song.
January to March 2004 :
Position held: Assistant director/Modeller/Animator
Freelance work
I worked on a 3D animation project inspired by Tim Burton's poem “The Oyster Boy”. I designed and modelled the oyster boy character and his mother as well as props for the animation. I rigged all the three main characters, mother, boy and husband. I also animated 4 of the scenes, worked on the post production and organised the work of the other animators.
September 2002 to December 2003 :
Position held: Director/Modeller/Animator
Freelance work
Freelance work for Kimberley Kimbrough: I created a music video for “Now Illuminate” by Kimra. I have modelled, animated and edited the video.
Position held: Director/Modeller/Animator
Freelance work for Nexus(Music Company): I created 3D characters and scenery for a music video project 'Mystery Searcher' for this French music company.
August 2000 to July 2002 :
Position held: Concept artist/Modeller/Animator
Freelance work for Magician Pictures ( Watford ).Work included:
- 3D Modelling and rendering of print quality images for Nortel Networks’ company brochure.
- Modelling characters for a pilot children's TV series.
- Realistic character modelling.
- Flash animations for a CD-Rom presentation for 3Com
July to September 2001 :
Position held: Concept artist/Web Designer, Modeller, Animator
Design of Lynne McAlley’s ( Photographer ) website, including both Flash & Html menus.
I was involved with all aspects of this site’s production from generating the design in Lightwave to editing the photographic images used, laying out the pages and producing the Flash animations.
January to May 2001 :
Position held: Web Designer
Design of a website for a French language company, the site includes an educational game made with Flash 5. I took a general concept for the site and produced an informative and interactive advert for the company. The site was made with Flash 5, Swift, Lightwave, Dreamweaver and JavaScript.
Position held: 3D Designer
Design of a 3D logo for music company (Nexus), using Lightwave.
See example at : http://www.artcoeur.co.uk.
August to October 2000 :
Position held: Web Designer
Design of ArtCoeur website ( multimedia and new media company ), using Flash 5, Swift, Lightwave, Dreamweaver, HTML, JavaScript.
April to July 2000 :
Position held: Web Designer
Digital designer working on web pages and graphics for TV programmes for TEN, Educational Network Television, Holborn, London. Design of an Online magazine using Flash, Html, JavaScript, Fireworks, Dreamweaver.
Education
2002 - 2006 : Master's Degree in Digital moving image, London Metropolitan University
1997 - 1998 : Multimedia Studies, Hackney College.
Qualifications
2002 - 2006 : Master Degree in Digital moving image.
1997 - 1998 : Access to Communications.
