Andrew Hollister
348 Center Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15229
412.931.7958
[email protected]
KO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE
Contract Designer / Artist

Responsibilities: Game Designer
Design, concepts layout, and construction of design documents for in-house produced titles.
OPTIK SOFTWARE inc.
Lead in-house Animator / Artist

War Inc.1997 release
In the 21st Century, private security forces have evolved into powerful armies under corporate control. Take command of your own corporation and its armies, and assume the control of research and development, production and strategic and tactical combat. In this world, you are both Commander-in-Chief and CEO.

Shattered Reality 1998 release

Underwater combat simulator that delivers unprecedented graphical realism to the PC. It is one of the first titles designed specifically to take full advantage of the new-generation of 3D accelerator cards. Real-time lighting and alpha effect systems illuminate the underwater scenes providing unprecedented graphical realism.

Responsibilities:
Modeling - animation, interface designs, cinematic animations, low polygon modeling, world-environment modeling.
Digital Alchemy Inc.
Lead in-house Animator / Artist

National Geographic Society: GeoBee I & II - 1996/97 release
Cartoon edutainment, hosted by Alex Trebek and Buzzbee; with over 1500 frames of hand drawn animation; for children ages 7 - 12 years old who have an interest in participating in the National Geographic Society's annual Geography Bee.

Coffee - vaporware
Scroll through a 3D rendered Italian cafe', to the 2D characters for a first-class education on coffee and all its qualities. Designed as a CD-Rom companion to an interactive web site, where user could learn about coffee, shop in a virtual coffee shop, or log-on to participate in an on-line chat.

Responsibilities:
Lead animator: Overseeing of all 2D and 3D art production; including background illustrations, interface design, character design and animation.
Designer: Participant on three-man design team, creating original designs, documentation, etc. Worked directly with inside production and outside contractors.
Take 2 Interactive Software
3D/2D Animator / Illustrator

Ripper - 1996 release
Starring: Christopher Walken, Burgess Meredith, Karen Allen, and Jimmie Walker. Futuristic Jack the Ripper Murder Mystery.

Hell - A Cyberpunk Thriller 1995 release
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Stephanie Seymour, and Geoffrey Holder.

Bill Cosby's Picture Pages I & II 1995-96 release
Star Crusader - 1994 release
Bureau 13 - 1994 release

Responsibilities:
3D modeling, and set design, [ripper, hell, star crusader] digitized film sequences [hell]; 2D character designs and animation. Interface design, cinematic storyboards and animation's [picture pages]; testing [bureau 13]
Kensington-Falls Animation
Animator / Illustrator

Second animator on a staff of six. Utilizing all aspects of the classic cel style from storyboards and character design, to in-betweening and ink and paint. Oxberry camera for shooting pencil tests and rotoscope animation.  Along with local advertising, clientele included:
Pittsburgh Pirates
Pittsburgh Penguins
Pittsburgh Steelers
New York Yankees
Florida Marlins
Houston Astros
Detroit Lions
FOCUS CONSULTING
Web designer:

Urban Assault Paintball
Club One Fitness Center
Uncle Mike's Cigar Haven
Dick Zdinak and Assoc.
Gregg Krupa and Dirty Pool
Economy Borough Swimming Pool
COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE
Platforms:
Windows NT, 98, 95; UNIX, oh yeah and the Mac OS
Software:
3D Studio-Max R2.0 and R2.5
Alias Wavefront 7.0, Maya
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere.
Animator Studio, Pro
Deluxe Paint Enhanced, Animator
Macromedia Director
Fractal Painter
Vista-Pro
Art Institute of Pittsburgh
Associate degree in Illustration and Design.