Christopher R. Taylor - Illustration and ComicHeeren Strasse 24
45145 Essen
Deutschland
Phone: 0201 64 91 370
Email: glennsworldcomicz@gmail.com
Web Galleries: www.glennsueznin.deviantart.com/gallery www.sketchfro.blogspot.comPersonal Information:Born: 27 December, 1984
Location: Livingston, New Jersey, USA
Citizenship: United States of America
Visa Status: Germany Visa
Sex: Male
Salary Requirements: 25-30,000 a year
Education:High School:
Notre Dame Catholic High School - September 1999 - June 2002
Major: Art and Literature Degree: High School Degree
College:
The Art Institute of Philadelphia/ The Art Institute of Phoenix July 2002 - September 2005
Major: Media Arts & Animation Degree: Bachelor of Arts for Media Arts & Animation
Graduated with Honors
Professional Qualifications:Computer Skills: Flash (Good), Photoshop (Very Good), Premiere (Good), After Effects (Good), 3D Studio Max (Good), Maya (Good), Microsoft Office (Good)
Customer Service Skills: Good audible voice along with clear and proper grammar pronunciation, friendly, inviting, able to handle various situations as well as stressful encounters with customers.
Freelance Project History:Games:2009Steven First- Texture Edits for Model
Description: Client had created textures for models that needed fixing. Readjusted texture and desings to fit the models. Editing was done in Photoshop.
Windmill Games- Sven- Concept Art for Online MMORPG
Description: Desinged characters, starting clothing, Mafia clothing, villians and main city for studios use to develop 3D models of the concepts. Sketched characters, penciled, inked and then colored in photoshop.
2008Gameforge Studios GmbH- Internet Advertisement Banners
Position: Designer
Description: Created a set of 7 web banners for one of the studio’s popular game series using stock imagery and FLASH to help arrange and design.
Contact: krohn@gameforge.de
Illustration and Design:2009 James Ives - Wedding Illustration
Description: Created Illustration based upon the Client and his wife for use on their wedding invintations. Drawing was created from photo reference, then brought into Photoshop to finish linework, and color.
Alex - Console Dealer- Mascot Design
Description: Client wanted Mascots to help advertise their website for games. Designed sketches from descriptions, then made final lineart and colors in Photoshop.
Pinip Illsutrations- Sexy Nuns
Description: Designed 2 illustrations for use in a collection of "Sexy Nun" drawings and illustrations to be sold. Sketched, then digitally inked and grayscalled colored in Photoshop.
Curtis Lawson - History of Comics - Day of Comics Museum comic
Description: Created 2 pages in my style for used in a collected anthology comic of varrious artist about the history of comic books.
COZMIC- Tattoo design
Description: Design a memorable tattoo design from popular game Character Mario for the client. Sketches made, then pencil work and inked before brought into photoshop for color.
Marc Dahlem- Cartoon Book Project- Zeusinger
Description: Created illustrations to go along with a Germany Humor book to be pitched to publishers. Designed characters, sketched, penciled and inked illustrations before brought into Photoshop for final edits.
Celtic Minstrel- Webcomic- Trillium School of the Art
Description: Weekly webcomic for Drunkduck.com. Created characters from clients description and sketch and pencil pages for the webcomic weekly. Drawn then colors pages. Edits made in Photoshop.
Anthro-Furry Character- Action Illustration B&W
Description: Designed the clients character for use in story/website. Sketched, penciled and then greyscale colored in Photoshop.
Zach-Black and White Character Illustration- Collection Website
Description: Comissioned to draw clients character in my own style for presentation on a collection website gallery. Sketched, penciled and inked the illustration before final edits were created in Photoshop.
2008Tone Chambers- Dr. Dre Illustration for Inspired Music CD
Description: Illustrated a cover for the design of Music inspired by the music artist Dr. Dre. Illustration was drawn, and then imported to Photoshop for color.
Contact:chambers@beats45.com
Will Beatman- Flash Animation for Website/ Spinning Record on Projector
Description: Created a short, repeating flash animation for use on a new website called “VIBE & SYNC”. The projector and spinning reel were to match the logo for the site in colors. Transferred logo into Flash and designed 2 projectors for the client to choose from. Once one was chosen, I animated the spinning film reel and movie reel onto it and added the logo of the site to the record.
Contact:beatman@gmail.com
Alessandra Davola- Fairy Tale Illustration
Description: Created an illustration based on a description for personal collection.
Drew the rough draft, then penciled the image for scanning and colored on the computer.
Contact: alessandra.davola@gmx.net
Cory de la Guardia- Zuda Comics Contest/Pitch Entry- Minimum Wage
Position: Pencilist/ Inker/ Colorist & Lettering
Description: Created an 8 Screen Pitch entry to Zuda Comics for Cory de la Guardia’s Minimum Wage. Designed characters from reference photos, rough pages, pencils and inks, then scanned into PC for Color and Lettering layout.
Contact: slackerinkvault@gmail.com
Greg Wilkinson- Mascot for Website www.staticprogress.com
Position: Mascot Designer-Graphic Design
Description: Designed a Mascot for used on music web space from a design the client had originally created. Mascot was drawn, colored and optimized for use on the web.
Contact: greg@stacticprogress.com
Todd Guilmette- CD Album Booklet Artwork
Position: Graphic Designer for Album Book
Description: Designed Music CD album artwork for the client’s second music cd. Booklet included Visible Cover and back cover containing the client’s personal character. Style Matched main character into a created BG from description, inked then scanned into PC for color editing. Client ended up not using in the final product, however services were paid for.
Contact: greatfox@greatfoxmusic.com
White Eye Studio-Lawrence White- Colorist for Comics
Position: Flatter and Colorist
Description: Flatted and added color detail to comics being published by the Indie Comic label White Eye Studio. Preview of Comic can be seen here http://www.whiteeyestudios.com/our-comics/final-hour/
Contact: whiteeye1@gmail.com
Cotton Snourth- Maglenda’s Errand Girls-Manga Comic Pitch
Position: Pencilist/Inker/ Color Grayscale & Lettering
Description: Created a 6 page pitch comic for Louis Badalament’s Maglenda’s Errand Girls. Created Character Designs, layout pages, penciled and inked pages, then scanned into the PC for Grayscale coloring and Lettering.
Contact: badalamentink@gmail.com
Mark Krasovickis- Sample Colored Comic for Website
Position: Pencilist/Inker/ Color & Lettering
Description: Created a 5 page sample comic in color with cover for use for a freelancing Comic artist web space. Comic will be seen as an example of what the website is set out to do, which can be seen here www.craftycomics.com .
Contact: infomanga@googlemail.com
Sebastian Blasiak- Kidslab- Character Designs and Illustration
Position: Character Designer- Illustrator
Description: Created and Designed Characters for use in an Educational Project about water aimed for Children aged 7-9. Characters were then set in a illustration that would be used for the final presentation of the project.
Contact: s.blasiak@kidslab.pl
Broken Souls Press-Short Story Comic- Donald Black
Position: Pencilist/Inker/Toner/Layout & Lettering
Description: Based of a story from a writer under BSP label, Curtis Lawson gave me the script to fully illustrate 10 comic pages to be used in an Anthology devoted to Horror stories as well as a magazine for horror comics.
Contact: curtismlawson@hotmail.com
Brian McKee- Book Cover
Position: Illustrator/ Cover Design
Description: Designed cover for book of short stories entitled “At the Gates of Heaven and other Short Stories” and for “Krishna in the Park- Selections from the diary of Carol Sheaves”. Books can be seen here: http://stores.lulu.com/raydude
Contact: brian@soulspark.org
Christopher Rama Rao- www.LoveandBetrayal.com Web-comic
Position: Concept Artist/ Pencils/ Inker/ Colorist
Description: Work on comic panels for online comic. Design Characters and backgrounds while applying them to script that was provided. A panel every week.
Contact: Christopherrao@gmail.com
2007Rob Giorgio- 360ep, Inc
Position: Illustrator
Description: Worked on two projects within the company and designed characters for use on t-shirts and websites.
Contact: 00-1-609-919-1007 x224
Antoine Dillard- Hardcore Animation.net (Website)
Position: Web Designer
Description: Designed and created interactive website for display at Hardcore Animation.net. Website designed and created in Flash.
Contact: animatorantoine@gmail.com
Mark Tioxon- Getting Girls the Anime Way (Book and website)
Position: Concept Artist/ Lead Artist
Description: Designed and created the cover image for the book in use of sales. Also will be used as graphics for the website.
Contact: AnimeYourLife@gmail.com
Mangamix Studios- Team MAXIMUM
Position: Illustrator
Description: Redesign characters for use in a poster to advertise for their comic. Designed poster for production and distribution for promotion purposes.
Contact: mangagraphix@aol.com
Arizona Independent Animation Project
Position: Concept Artist/Lead Artist
Description: Designed characters within one of the studio’s main animation projects. Also designed promotions and album covers for distribution at Conventions.
Contact: railstar@gmail.com
2006Sean Allan: Music DJ
Position: Album cover designer
Description: Designed an album cover for his next music collection album.
Contact: dravoido316@yahoo.com
Willow Cottage Studios
Position: Lead Artist
Description: Character Design for lead character in production. In process of working on Storyboards for script.
Project: Bladeslinger
Description: 8 Paged pitch comic for Ken Faggio. Created Character Design, penciled and inked pages, toned and texted pages.
Contact: audiotoxic@hotmail.com
B-Boy Bunker.com
Position: Character Artist
Description: Have drawn various characters for use on web space on BBoyBunker.com.
Contact: Bboybunker@gmail.com
2005Glen L. Down Elementary School Festival
Position: Caricature Artist
Description: As the day progressed, I was hired to draw paying customer’s
portraits in my style of art.
Awards:2 publication pieces in DOT, DOT, DOT magazine 2001-2002
Best of Show: Phoenix Anime Convention
Awarded for digital Artwork: A man and his Gun
Books and Publications:Final Hour : Various Artist and Writers
Link to page: http://www.whiteeyestudios.com/our-comics/final-hour/
Mysterious Visions: Volume 3: The Essex- Story by: Curtis Lawson, Illustrations by: Christopher Taylor -Link to page: http://www.dimestoredistro.com/mysteriousvisionsafterhours3-p-1033.html
Manga/comic: NEO|ARK Volume one
Link to page: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=555055
Endless Journeys: Book of published photographers work published.
My work: “The Falconer” ISBN: 0-7951-5247-7
He's still got it - 2009- By: Christopher Taylor
He's still got it -2007/8- By:Christopher Taylor
He's still got it -2006- By: Christopher Taylor
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