Todd Carson
Cell: (818) 468-7624
todd@toddcarson.com

Compositor - April 2006 To Present
Digital Dimension
"Mirrors","Pink Panther II","Get Smart","Live Free or Die Hard", "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", "Norbit", "Epic Movie", "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby", "Firehouse Dog", "Charlotte's Web"

Designer - April 2004 – October 2005
New Wave Entertainment
DVD Design on: “Star Wars Episode III”, “Stealth”, “Carlito's Way: Rise to Power”, “Constantine”, “The Big Lebowski” Special Edition, “Batman Begins”, “Batman” DVD Set, “New Jack City”, “Nip Tuck”, “Miami Vice” Season 2, “Gilligan’s Island”, “Harry Potter 3”, “Heat” Special Edition, “Shawshank Redemption” Special Edition, “Kicking and Screaming”, “Wonder Woman”, “Las Vegas”, “Scooby Doo 2”, “Wacky Racers”, “Wonderfalls”, “Smallville” and “X-Men Evolution”

Created broadcast graphics for: Discovery Channel’s “Animal Trax”, Discovery Channel’s “Wild Kingdom”, “Houdini” A&E Special, Nintendo DS “ Spyro Shadow Legacy”, Dane Cook “Cooked”, Greg Behrendt “Greg Behrendt is Uncool”, “Friday Night Lights” BET Special, “Spiderman 2”, Toon Disney “End Pages”, Toon Disney “Mega Recess Marathon”, Toon Disney “Birthday House of Mouse”, “Democratic National Convention”

Feature Film Promo’s on: “King Arthur”, “Mr. 3000”, “Princess Diaries 2”, “Kid Genius's”, “80 Days”, “Napoleon Dynamite”, “Notebook”, “Harold and Kumar”, “Garfield”, “The Day After Tomorrow”, “Ladder 49”, “Garden State”, “The Bourne Supremacy”, “Alien vs. Predator” and “IROBOT”

Designer - October 2005
Video Box Studios
Bravo “Tabloid Wars”

Art Director - Currently In Production
“Accidental Addict”
A one-hour television special

Art Director - February - 2004
Reverie Productions
Title Open

Freelance LightWave Artist - January 2004
Hybrid Studios
Title open for “Cheese Boys” a television series currently in development

 
Art Director - April 2002
“The Last Editor”
Art direction and Main Title Open for the award-winning documentary feature

Digital FX Artist - June 2002
“The Gamers”
Opening motion graphic titles for a USC student film

Art Director - 2000 - 2004
“The Living Century”
Art direction and design of elements for print and broadcast for the award-winning ongoing PBS television series

Graphic Artist - November 2000
YC/MC Ltd.
Designed the book cover and digitally restored all of the images for Yvonne Craig’s “From Ballet to the Batcave and Beyond”

EDUCATION

Video Symphony
Completed a 3D Visual Effects and compositing certificate

UC Santa Barbara
Graphic Design, New Media Design and Web Design

My strongest skill is compositing. I am also proficient with rotoscoping, matte creation, morphing, dust-busting, blue, green screen removal, 2D tracking and 3D match-moving. I prefer integrating live-action with 3D elements to create a photo- realistic look. I have experience with the following programs.

Compositing with Digital Fusion, Shake and After Effects. Matchmoving with Boujou and SynthEyes. Modeling, texturing, lighting, animating, particle effects and rendering with LightWave 3D. Graphic design, typography, interface design, texture creation, web site and photo restoration with Photoshop and Illustrator. Editing with Final Cut Pro. Web site coding with DreamWeaver. Video encoding with Compressor.

Extensive knowledge of Mac OS and Windows.