Taeyoung Choi
www.tychoi.com
Daytime: 773-961-1646 Cel:630-267-8128
754 Hanbury Drive Des Plaines IL 60016

EXPERIENCE

Clients

Blur - Heavy Metal, Automatic Detective (Production Rendering)
Radical Comics - Oblivion, Feeds, Shrapnel, Abattoir (Production Rendering and Book cover)
Automatic Pictures - The Looking Glass War (Production Rendering)
Red bear Films Inc. - Softwire (Production Rendering)
Beyond Time comics - Coldheart (Book Covers)
and etc

Senior Artist: WMS GAMING 07/2002 - 07/2005, 03/2007 - present

Responsible for creating digital motion graphic from concept to final for games using 2D and 3D applications
Working with Jr. Artists and responsible for helping and educating artists (annual painting class)
Responsible for working with computer engineers directly, providing them with art and its description for programming.
Responsible for creating large-size production rendering for marketing team

Concept Artist: Midway Games 2005 - 2007 / contract concept artist: 2007 - present

Area51_Blacksite, Stranglehold ps3/360 (2007)
Blitz the League 2 ps3/360 (2008)
Unannounced 3rd person shooter (cancelled)

Working with and learning from well known artist, Stephan Martiniere
Responsible for creating all environments from idea to final paintings
Providing the art department and level designers with visual concepts and detail breakdowns such as props and textures
Responsible for helping and educating the concept team for new techniques and tools(quarterly class)
Screenshot retouch ups for Marketing team

 

 

Assistant Animator: Calabash Productions 2001
Animation on ‘Lucky Charms’ and ‘Trix’ cereal commercials.

Assistant of Professor Hyun-se Lee King Se-jong University 1999 - 2000

Drawing Instructor: Gadulgi Art Institute 1998 - 2000

 

SKILLS

Arts -Environment and character design, Digital concept painting, traditional painting, caricaturing, 3D modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, and storyboarding thorough understanding of color and composition.
Programs - Photoshop, Painter, Illustrator, Maya, 3D Studio Max, Deep paint 3D, Z Brush, Aftereffects, and etc.

 

EDUCATION

Columbia College Chicago, IL 2000 - 2002 B.A Art, Computer Animation Major
King Se-jong University Seoul, Republic of Korea 1992 - 1999 B.A. Fine Arts

 

PUBLICATIONS, EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS

Cold Heart Series covers 2009
Sharpenel Tade cover 2009
Oblivion 2009
Art of Midway 2008
Master awarded in 'Concept category' EXPOSE 5 2007
ImagineFX Cover issue 35
Invasion! Cover, Underwood 2007
EXPOSE, d'artiste, Spectrum & Digital Art Master Vol.2 2006-2008
Employee of the Month WMS, March of 2003
Big Screen ‘OREZ(independent animation)’ Harold Washington Library, Chicago 2002
Graduation Exhibition of Fine Art Jong ro Gallery, Seoul 1999
Presidential Fund Exhibition Guan-in Gallery, Seoul 1993