About

Hi! I'm Tim Hawker, a 23 year old animator from East Sussex, England.

I was introduced to 3D back in 2004 by a great freeware program called Anim8or. Soon after I attended a 6 week evening course on the fundamentals of animation and decided to study it at university.

I have now finished university and am currently looking for available positions to work. I hope to become part of a talented and hardworking team, and grow as an artist while helping to create some really cool animations. I'm willing to relocate worldwide. Please contact me if you're interested!

For my placement year a friend and I decided to set up our own business and inquired about the idea to the university. They were very supportive and with the help of a national grant scheme gave us office space and a small amount of funding. With this we set up VFX Studios.

During the year I have worked on a variety of different projects ranging from filming, web design, graphic design, 3D animation, 2D animation and Visualisation. The year was very successful and we managed to obtain business from a large number of clients, including:

Specsavers, Southbank Centre, Captiva Marketing, Calderdale Council, Eureka, Bricleigh Developments, Strata Stones, Digital4Media and WC Bartending.

My work has appeared in 3D Artist Magazine, and I've also worked on the Prodigy music video 'Warriors Dance' by creating a few dance cycles in Maya.

Other than 3D I love sport and visit the gym regularly. I've been backpacking around Australia and a few countries in Europe, and can't wait to visit a few more! I'm also a massive fan of skiing/snowboarding and am currently president of Staffordshire University Snowsports Society.

Skills

3D
Rigging - Solid understanding of Maxscript and various rigging elements within 3ds Max.
Modelling - Mechanical and Environmental box modelling.
Texturing - UV unwrapping and texturing including normal mapping, bump mapping, specular etc.
Animation - Understanding of animation movement and flow, an area I am currently working on.
Lighting - Excellent knowledge of real world lighting techniques which can be directly used in 3D to produce realistic results.
Rendering - Network rendering deployment including maintenance using Backburner and Distributed Rendering.

2D
Graphic Design - Experience producing posters, leaflets, business cards and brochures for various companies.
Web Design - Extensive knowledge of (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Software

3ds Max (including V-Ray, FumeFX and Afterburn plugins)
Maya
Nuke
Fusion
PFTrack and Boujou
Creative Suite (Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, Illustrator, Flash, InDesign)

Education

BSc (Hons) Digital Film and 3D Animation Technology
Staffordshire University, 2006 - 2010 (Currently in 3rd year)