SHUSHAN XU

toomuchcoffie@gmail.com             

(646) 244 7521

 

WORK  EXPERIENCE                                 

3D Artist, Firstborn Multimedia   April 2010- present

 

General Artist, ActionXL    December2008-March 2010

Varied tasks from concept art to 3D animation

 

OTHER PROJECTS 

Dragon Frog, Bunko Studios for Big Fly Creative Works

Modeled 3D environments in Maya.

 

Sid the Science Kid,  Bunko Studios for Jim Henson 

Working as an intern making 3D modeling in Maya and painting in photoshop.

                                          

Umizoonis,  Nickelodeon     

Working as an intern with the design team using Illustrator and Photoshop.

 

EDUCATION      

Cornell University, College of Engineering, Ithaca, NY

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Candidate for Bachelor of Science, May 2008               Technical GPA: 3.1

Dean’s list Fall 2006 and Spring 2007

Major: Civil Engineering Concentration in Structures and Hydraulics

Art relevant courses: Introduction to Game Design, Electronic Imaging in Art, Painting II

 

COMPUTER SKILLS             

Maya, 3ds Max, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, After Effects, Premiere, Dreamweaver, AutoCAD, ArcGIS, Matlab, HTML, Excel, PowerPoint, Word

 

AWARDS              

Police Academy League Award for a watercolor, 2003∙ Nomination for participation in specialized life drawing program, Adelphi University, 2003 × Semi-finalist in New York Science and Engineering Fair, 2004 ∙ Participant in Intel Science Competition 2004

 

ACTIVITIES                           

Ithaca Ballet Company dancer 2009-2010 season