Ryan Bird Email & Phone Number

Pleasant Grove, Utah, United States

• Led and managed a large variety of projects for companies that include: Warner Bros, Disney, DC Comics, Marvel, Amazon, Universal Studios, Nickelodeon, Nintendo, Sega, Niantic, and many others.• Overseeing the studio's 3D art and animation.• Created 3D Art and Animation for many projects for popular IP, such as: Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sonic the Hedgehog, Looney Tunes, Lord of the Rings, DC Super Pets, and many others.• Part of the upper leadership of the studio, and helped run the day-to-day managing of people and projects.

Draper, Utah, United States

• Responsible for toy design, creation, and 3D prototyping for a variety of physical pinball games.• Acquired 3D printers, tools, and art supplies.• Created models, textures, rigging, and animation for game cinematics.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Worked for a variety of clients, including Hasbro, Lego, Crayola, and Fox. • Helped with the creation of a VR game for onsite physical based entertainment.• Created animations, models, rigs, and textures for a variety of 3D characters.• Helped design elements for a variety of projects.

Pleasant Grove, Ut

Darbble was started back in 2004, under the name "Blue Bird Digital". After some upgrades and modifications in March of 2010, Blue Bird Digital officially became Darbble, Inc.• Created art assets for a large variety of projects for companies, such as Fox, Disney, USA Network, NFL, MLB, Capcom, Crayola, Intel, Cox Communications, PayPal, and many others.• Specialized in modeling, animation, texturing, rigging, concept art, post production, lighting, and rendering.• Responsible for all of the major management functions, such as: planning, marketing, finance, quality assurance, sub-contracting, and bidding.• Created a weekly web comic called The Dribs.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Created diverse animations for a variety of characters.• Modeled, textured, and rigged for several projects.• Implemented art and animation in Unity.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Animation, modeling, texturing, and rigging for a variety of games. Titles include:• Looney Tunes Dash - mobile• Ice Age: Arctic Blast - mobile• Unreleased titles

West Valley City, Ut

• Created art for a variety of video games, including: The Tale of Despereaux (Xbox360, PC, PS2, and Wii), Alvin and the Chipmunks (PC, Wii, PS2, and DS), and Tom and Jerry Tales (DS)• Responsible for a large team of artists (varying between 25-50 employees) through the duration of the projects, as well as managed a group of sub-leads who oversaw different art disciplines.• Worked directly with the Creative Director, Lead Designers, and Producers to maintain a high level of quality in the art and to ensure milestones were met.• Started an artist intern program, where a select number of participants were trained to create art to our standards. Later, we would hire the most talented as full-time employees.

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

• Created high-quality models, textures, and animations for Amped 3 and Links franchise for Xbox.• Contributed to the research and development of the updated Xbox console.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of character art assets.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Led a team of up to 6 artists to create characters and animations for popular video games like Amped 2 and Amped 3.• Set the visual bar for characters and matched likenesses of professional sports figures.• Managed character customization and ensured high-quality art for Microsoft Games.• Worked with designers and programmers to ensure quality and fun.

Draper, Utah, United States

Created models, textures, rigging, and animation for movies, video games, television, commercials, print ads, and several other forms of media. Here are just a few of the many projects that I worked on: - Movies – Fight Club, Mystery Men, Armageddon, Antz, The Faculty, American Werewolf in Paris, Godzilla - Video Games – Civilization: Call to Power, Gauntlet Legends, Gauntlet Dark Legacy, Scooby-Doo: Night of 100 Frights, Twisted Metal: Small Brawl - TV Commercials – 7/11, Cartoon Network, Skittles, Nintendo 64, Best Buy - Television/Broadcast – Nickelodeon, Discovery Channel’s Land of the Mammoths, Screen Actors Guild Awards Ceremony, Discovery Channel’s Extinct - Web/Internet – Nike, Eddie Bauer, The National Center for Missing and Exploited ChildrenI was an internal project lead over many projects. Responsible for several R&D projects. Worked directly with many clients and kept them happy and consistently returning to have us do more work.