Benjamin Marouski Email & Phone Number

Milford, Ct, Us

Milford, Ct

Cars, pretty pictures, rad design, and continuing to humanize a brand I truly believe in. I'm overseeing all creative direction/strategy and production for all external and internal Marketing initiatives - both in the digital and practical space. We have started to develop a robust internal team of talented creators, designers, videographers, and editors, that will continue to scale into the future. We are challenged with coming up with fun and new ways to get in front of our target audience through a myriad of channels and content types, while developing a quantifiable understanding of the interplay between creative excellence and work performance.

Milford, Ct

Management of a production team of talented artists, shooters, and editors. As a team we create hundreds of videos for various channels throughout the year from YouTube & Social, to internal and ad work. We are always working on adding process and efficiency to the way we work and continue to improve on our craft. I'm responsible for creative direction, storyboarding, branding/design, and strategy of new series and creative requests. I'm lucky to often find myself show running and producing along the way! I work closely with Marketing, Motorsports, Catalog, and Part Finding, to come up with visually engaging solutions to help educate and inform our customers. Responsible for designing, modeling, lighting, rendering, and compositing all 3D assets. Art Direction and production management for the internal digital media/content team producing various automotive related web series, videos, and advertisements.

Royal Oak, Mi

Worked with leading Automotive Ad Agencies for Chevy, Cadillac, Acura, GMC, Buick, and Chrysler to brainstorm and execute creative solutions to visually deliver a 3D/Animation product to fulfill their needs.Responsible for lighting, modeling, rendering, shading, and comping CG images off all types, mainly automotive.Senior Cg artist on the internal animation team. Camera animation, and vehicle animation for both technical and commercial work. Modeling of environments and props in maya, shading in gray, and texturing done in Photoshop and Substance Designer/Painter to create photo real and stylized assets.CG supervisor on various photoshoots, responsible for shooting/capturing domes and working with other photographers on set for backplate captures.Current software consist mostly of Maya, Mental Ray, Nuke, HDR Light studio, photoshop.

Dearborn, Mi

-Worked closely with various teams within the agency on engaging visual campaigns-Bolstered a production pipeline for Build Your Own Vehicle assets on Ford's site-Worked in 3ds max, using vray, and nuke to create photoreal web, commercial and print cg work

Farmington Hills

I was a 3d generalist working on animations and catalog work for Shooterz at Latcha and Assosciates. I worked heavily in Nuke, maya and vray to create realistic car and truck renders.

Sterling Heights, Mi

- Photoreal Lighting/Rendering in Maya/MR and Keyshot -Modeling, texturing, animation, retouching (photoshop) for Clients such as GM, SECO, AAM,Federal Mogul.-Worked on large CG stills/cutaways for web and media- In charge of CG team for animations, manage pipeline from 3d to post.

-“2011 Infiniti”- Car Prep, with CAD data from Maya to 3ds Max, dealt with rendering (VRay), shaders, re modeling, minor compositing-“Jinn” – movie Release TBA, modeler, matchmover (syntheyes), roto artist, rotomation/animation, scene integration, uv layouts

-Responsible for opening up computer lab and monitoring students-Help all underclassmen that need assistance with issues regarding student projects-Monthly guide for Computer Animation department for the Behind the Scenes Tour In-depth understanding of the degree program with knowledge in all the classes offered to Computer Animation students