Debra Lowman950 S. Oak Park Ave. #9Oak Park, Illinois 60304 (708) 445-9673 lowman@evl.eecs.uic.edu http://evlweb.eecs.uic.edu/lowman |
Artist & animator with proven ability to meet tight deadlines in a production environment. Comfortable working alone or as part of a team. Adept in 3D modeling, animation, designing virtual reality environments.
Master of Fine Arts
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago
September 1993 - July 1996
MFA Thesis Exhibition showcased:
Research Assistant
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago
September 1995 - July 1996
Worked with businesses to encourage the use of VR
technology in design and manufacturing. Projects included:
Computer Artist/Animator
Data East Pinball, Melrose Park, Illinois
Summer 1994
Created backgrounds and graphics, retouched and colorized digitized characters,
composited characters with backgrounds for video games.
Freelance Computer Artist
WMX Technologies, Oak Brook, Illinois
September 1993 - August 1995
Designed and created images on computer workstation to be used for
business presentations, posters, and brochures.
Computer Graphics Specialist
Visual Presentations, Inc., Bedford, Massachusetts
April 1989 - June 1993
Managed and coordinated multiple projects with tight deadlines. Met
with clients to determine their needs, designed and created images
on computer workstation for use in business presentations, posters,
brochures, video and advertisements.
Animation/Modeling: 2 years Softimage experience
Programming Languages: C, Open GL, SGI/GL, HTML, VRML
Operating Systems: Silicon Graphics IRIX, Macintosh, MS-DOS, Windows
Packages: Photoshop, DeBabelizer, Deluxe Paint, Showcase
Video: Full broadcast quality video production and post production.
Film: 16mm experience doing animation on Oxberry
Student Volunteer
Supercomputing 95, CAVE and Immersadesk exhibition
Student Volunteer
SIGGRAPH 94, VROOM exhibition
The Bridge, The Digital Bayou
SIGGRAPH 1996, New Orleans, Louisiana
August 1996
The 6th International Student Film Festival
Tel Aviv, Israel
June 1996
Divine Organic Push/Pop
Gallery 400, Chicago, Illinois
May 1996
EVE4
Gallery 400 and Engineering Research Facility-UIC, Chicago, Illinois
May 1995
Kiosk
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Spring 1993
Speed Show - Ways of Seeing: New Art from Massachusetts
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Fall 1992
Gardening, hiking, swimming, mystery novels, Tetris, sumo wrestling (as a spectator)
References and demo reel available upon request.