Jordan Boyd Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

New York, NY, US

Led the Cheil Dallas Emerging Technologies creative team. Oversaw all CGI, motion capture, virtual production, gaming, and XR related projects for our primary client, Samsung Electronics of America. Hired, onboarded, and mentored up to twelve direct reports at any given time including designers, art directors, copywriters, CG artists, motion graphics.

New York, NY, US

As a founding member of the Cheil Dallas in-house video team, I contributed to concepting, pitching, video and art directing, producing, animating, and color-correcting much of the team's output. My work with Samsung included creating videos and graphics for their Twitch channel to promote streaming events. I also produced and directed a live-action.

• Collaborated with publishers to enhance mood and storytelling clarity of art with an emphasis on cinematic lighting, evocative palettes, and digital painting. Followed specifications to ensure accurate color.
• Caried out each publisher’s technical guidelines and workflows for producing accurate color reproduction across both print and digital distribution channels.
• Utilized a variety of artistic styles depending on the project, properly following reference for all pre-existing characters or licensed properties. Managed three to eight monthly print deadlines at a time making.

• Spearheaded Arphax Publishing's Family Maps book series into an online format by launching the geography-based family history research subscription service HistoryGeo.com. Coded front and back-end libraries to produce.
• Combined MapBox, Leaflet, OpenStreetMaps, Tilestache, and PostgreSQL to style and managed a customized Google Maps style interface on Amazon Cloud Servers using a combination of open source and proprietary geospatial.
• Constructed UI/UX focused on a predominantly mature user demographic’s interaction, including CMS-like features for documenting and sharing users’ research.
• Created a suite of back-end management tools for subscriptions and updating cached map tile images in the cloud, based on newly available data.
• Edited map images in Adobe Illustrator and copy-edited entire titles from the Family Maps series of reference books using Adobe InDesign.
• Delved into C#, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, and host of other technologies to design a complex front-end interface for HistoryGeo.com.

• Co-wrote the screenplay for The Gunslingers, a quarter of a million-dollar budgeted feature film created by a three-person production company that was eventually released direct-to-DVD by Lionsgate Home Entertainment..
• Directed second unit photography during production and acted as camera operator or Steadicam operator on first unit. Supervised the on-set capture of nearly three hundred visual effects shots throughout the course of.
• Matte painted set extensions to give life to the partial western town sets and augment the drama or beauty of exterior wide shots using a combination of photo elements, miniatures, and digital painting. Inserting.
• Supervised the conversion of a small warehouse into a green screen stage for the film’s subterranean climax and built a miniature cave environment that would culminate in replacing all green screen in the final effects.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Film/Video And Photographic Arts

Visual Effects For Film & Television