Pete Cruz Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

Lecturer

Irvine, CA

General rink and hockey operations, providing high quality customer service and professionalism for the premier ice facility on the west coast. My day to day tasks vary from rink and ice maintenance, customer service, information services, security, EMS and off ice officiating. And playing music at loud volumes:)

Orange County, California Area

Creating high quality art, video and animation for a variety of projects and businesses. Helped to create an online web series for The Bayen Group. Co-created an ad campaign which raised over 300% of sought after funding for Marsblade.

United States

Contracted action sports and event photographer/videographer. Land, sea, air, mud, whatever it takes to get the shot. Concerts, high school sports, surf contests, Native American pow wows.

Orange County, California Area

A full spectrum art and animation studio, we provide everything in pre-production from screenplay and script refinement, concept art, storyboards, and animatics. During production we can shoot live plates (including aerial photography), HDRI photography, create digital assets, props and matte paintings and 3D character models. We can also create all types.

Instructor for students in the Game Design Program and Animation Arts programs.

Responsibilities: Started the studio from the ground up, including interviewing and hiring an art team, establishing studio protocols, leading the art team, creating tools and establishing art styles. In addition, a heavy interaction with the programming and design teams to come up with viable solutions to meeting deadlines and finishing games according to.

Lead artist for Ultimate Duck Hunter for Nintendo Wii.Game Shipped December 2007.Responsibilities: Interviewing and bringing artists on board, establishing the art pipeline, mentoring junior artists and creating an overall look for the game, as well as level design, environment modeling and texture painting.Tools included 3DS Max, Photoshop, Excel, and the.

Senior environment artist for the Warner Bros. title 300: March to Glory, for the Playstation Portable.Game shipped February 2007.Responsibilities: Creating environments and textures within the established look and feel of the 300 movie. Tools included 3DS Max, Photoshop, Excel, and the Vicious Cycle engine.

Instructor for animation, modeling and game design classes.Responsibilities: Creating a work schedule and assignments to help students understand problems and create real world solutions for their upcoming careers as professional artists.

Instructor for 3D environmental design, modeling, matte painting and digital cinematography classes.Responsibilities: Creating class curriculum and mentoring students, preparing them for work in the real world.Tools included After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, Excel, 3DS Max, Maya.

Texture artist for Sony’s Neopets: The Wand of Wishing title for Playstation Portable.Game shipped February 2006.Responsibilities: Hand painted 2D textures, UV unwrapping and low poly modeling. Tools included Maya, Photoshop and Sony proprietary engine tools.

Artist and level designer for Medal of Honor Frontline, for Playstation 2, and Command and Conquer:Generals, for the PCCommand and Conquer shipped February 2003.Medal of Honor: Frontline shipped May 2002.Responsible for level design, 3D models, texture maps and UV mapping. Tools included 3DS Max, Photoshop and EA’s Command and Conquer tools.

Artist for Super Car Street Challenge, for Playstation2.Game shipped August 2001.Responsibilities: Low poly environment and prop models, texture maps, and UV unwrapping, as well as stunt\shortcut (level) design and non character prop animations.Tools included Photoshop, 3DS Max, Fireworks and in house scripting tools.

Bfa, Digital Media Design

Activities and Societies: Merit Scholarship student. Senior Class Marshall.Graduate from the school's first class of the Digital Media.

Vfx\Matte Painting

Matte Painting.