"I have worked as an adjunct professor at Drexel University for four years. I primarily teach introductory and advanced modeling, texturing, and rendering in Autodesk Maya, ZBrush, and Substance Painter. At Drexel I also occasionally teach compositing for film using the Foundry's Nuke. If you want a structured lesson plan, or just some casual freeform help, I'd be happy to help.

Starting as a media intern in Seacrest Studios at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia I learned how great it can be to be part of a multifaceted and diverse media team, and my education at Drexel University gave me the skills to excel at my craft and create the best possible final product. I have learned from industry professionals like former Industrial Light and Magic visual effects supervisor for Men In Black, The Mummy(1999), and I, Robot John Andrew Berton Jr. and, former Nickelodeon and Weta employee Jeremy Fernsler. I'm an expert with much of the Adobe Suite, using it to edit, composite, illustrate, create CG textures, and animate in both 2D and 3D. Autodesk Maya stands as my 3D animation program of choice. I have spent thousands of hours learning the ins and outs of simulation systems, animating, modeling, rigging, and rendering from Maya in multiple engines including Redshift, Renderman, Vray, and Arnold. I'm also experienced modeling and sculpting in Modo and ZBrush. Nuke has been my compositing program of choice for over five years, and I am familiar using its 2D and 3D systems, as well as combining CG elements with live action footage. Then when all is said and done I prefer to color correct and edit in DaVinci Resolve.

I'm also a hobbyist with using Houdini, and on the production I worked on most recently I got a lot of experience compositing using Blackmagic's Fusion. The production was a 25 minute long 3D animated children's TV pilot, which I co-managed.

I can do almost anything with a digital image.

Contact me with anything no matter how simple or complicated. I'm friendly and I'm great with music too." less...