Arda Koyuncu

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3D MODELER ARDA KOYUNCU
1346 Mason Street
San Francisco, California 94133 USA
www.ardakoyuncu.com
415-509-8397

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LANGUAGES
Turkish, English, German

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OBJECTIVE
3D Modeler seeks opportunity to invest himself in a company which expects excellence and offers advancement possibilities.

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QUALIFICATIONS
- Polygonal modeling for movies and cinematics
- Organic, Hard Surface and Environment Modeling
- Unwrapping clean UV's, texturing and texture painting
- Creating rigging friendly topologies and Retopologizing
- Lighting and rendering with Mental Ray and VRay
- Maya, ZBrush, Mudbox, Modo, Mental Ray, Vray, 3D Coat and Photoshop
- Basic Rigging
- Traditional Sculpture
- Java, Actionscript, Python and Mel scripting
- Some experience with Maya Fluids, Particles and nCloth

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EXPERIENCE

Elastic Creative
CG Artist

September 2011 - January 2012
San Francisco / CALIFORNIA
Adobe MAX: Prop Modeling, texturing and shading
Google/NORAD: Prop Modeling, texturing and shading, particle effects
Kaiser: Bone, Muscle sculpting

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Academy of Art University
Modeling Supervisor

August 2011 - January 2012
San Francisco / CALIFORNIA
Academic Collaborative Project: San Francisco Junior Giants 2012

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Academy of Art University
3D Modeler & Texture Artist

July 2011
San Francisco / CALIFORNIA
Academic Collaborative Project: Just Looking

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Digitrove.Inc
Lowpoly to Highpoly Modeling and Posing

2011
San Francisco / CALIFORNIA
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom Cinematic - Strider Hiryu

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Freelance
Facial Modeling & Shading

2011
San Francisco / CALIFORNIA
Puma Commercial

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Ghost Jack Entertainment
Character Artist

2010 - 2011
San Francisco / CALIFORNIA
Fist Full of Magic Cinematic Trailer

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The Mystic Studio
3D Modeler

2010 - 2011
San Francisco / CALIFORNIA
Academic Internship Collaborative Project: Reprogrammed

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Ceidot Game Studios
Sound & Script Programmer

2007
Metutech / Ankara / TURKIYE
Sovereign Symphony Video Game

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AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS
-3DArtist Magazine, Issue37, January 2012
-Computer Arts France, February Issue 2012
-Making of Grandma for 3DTotal 2012
-CGSociety CG Choice Award 2011 - Grandma
-3DCreative Magazine December 2011
-Featured artist in Pixologic™ ZBrush® Turntable Gallery
-3DTotal Excellence Award 2011 - Grandma
-CGFeedback Top Row Award 2011 - Grandma, Sean Penn Likeness
-DopeAwards 3D Award 2011 - Grandma, Sean Penn Likeness
-CGArena Top Row, Excellence Award 2011 - Grandma, Sean Penn Likeness
-CGWorld Excellence Award 2011 - Sean Penn Likeness
-"Making of Sean Penn" for CGWorld.com 2011
-Featured artwork at CgCoach.com 2011 - Grandma, Sean Penn Likeness
-Spotlight at Eat3D.com 2011 Grandma, Sean Penn Likeness

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EDUCATION

Academy of Art University
MFA in Animation & Visual Effects / 3D Modeling

2009 - 2011
San Francisco / CALIFORNIA / USA

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Bilkent University
BS in Computer Engineering

2003 - 2008
Bilkent / ANKARA / TURKEY

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