Perhaps you don't know much about me so please allow myself ... to introduce ... myself.
Hi, my name is Jesse Sandifer and I am a sculpt-a-holic. I'm happily married with three kids and I live in the Dallas area.
Character creation is my main passion and I've always loved to design and create. With every new project my main goal is to find the personality and character that will bring it to life and make it tactile and approachable by people who take a look. I strive to be my very best and to constantly improve myself in my art.
I've learned everything I know by doing any and all cg tutorials on the internet in my earlier years. My desire now is to help facilitate your career by offering character creation videos to help others such as yourself.
So you get an understanding of my experience, here are a few items of note:
- Art Director and Owner of Chickwalker, a high-end digital character design and production studio in Dallas, Texas
- Co-Owner of Green Grass Studios, an animation and vfx studio in Dallas, Texas
- entirely self-taught digital artist with 12 years industry experience
- knowledgeable and experienced in the entire aspect of asset production in a studio setting
- clients include Fox, Hasbro, Warner Brothers, Mandalay Films, Zynga, Shadows in Darkness, Autodesk, Dallas Cowboys, and the NBA Champion Dallas Mavericks
- Zbrush Certified Instructor on Pixologic.com (http://www.pixologic.com/zclassroom/schools/ - go to the Certified Instructors tab)
- member of the ZBrush BETA team
- member of the Mudbox BETA team
- Bachelors of Environmental Design degree from Texas A&M University
- passion and focus resides mainly in the character/concept design and production
- created numerous tutorials and making of's for various people like Ryan Kingslien, CMIVFX, 3DTotal's 3DCreative magazine, GoMotion magazine, and Render Out.
- artwork published in several of the Ballistic Publishing cg art books over the years. Recently achieved the Excellence award in Expose' 9.
