Skills Audit

Name	Dane Brennand
Qualifications	Self taught in Photoshop CS2 and CS3, advanced user, texture painting, matte painting and design Self taught in Autodesk Maya 8, 3DsMax 8, Bodypaint 3D and Mudbox
Other Qualifications	Next gen material set ups, rendering occlusion maps, normal maps, coloured specular maps and mask bitmaps
Education	II Cert 2, self taught digitally
Significant Life Experiences	Sister died in 07, work with the most well known mod team for Halo: Custom Edition, and currently a texture artist for Warm Gun, an Unreal Tournament 3 mod
Things you really like	Texture painting, rendering, drawing, concept design, guitar, singing and listening to music
Work Experience
Voluntary	All my mod work is voluntary
Personality	Open minded, quick to learn, enjoy working in teams, appreciate good art, believe heavily in constructive criticism
Artistic Skills	Pencil drawing, digital drawing, digital painting
Technical Skills	Material compositing, rendering, painting material bitmaps (normal, specular, ambient occlusion etc)
“Creativity”	I like to look within implied space, to think of space and how it can be filled, I like to design patterns and shapes
Musicality	I like dissonant harmonies with simple but layered melodies, with offbeat irregular time signatures
Inventions	Never invented anything, but I would like to think I am reinventing my art style all the time
Design Skills	Design wise, I like anything intricate, small details, being founded by large strange ones. I have a love for alternative colours, I rarely use Primary colours and tend to go for inbetween shades, teals, oranges, maroon
Project Management skills	Managing a project isn’t really my forte’, at this stage I have a “when it’s done” philosophy in mind, but I do always manage to get my work done on time and to quality
Time management skills	Time management, I’m fairly steady in, but I need to learn to work faster, physically
People management skills	I can deal with people easily, but only if they can handle my direction
Levels of expertise in which software packages	Photoshop: I’d like to think very advanced, knowing much about perfectly creating great realistic, yet stylised matte paintings. 3d programs, I am quite a novice, but only in the modelling and animation sides of things. Materials and rendering, I am intermediate
Talents	Guitar, drawing, ability to learn quickly, multitasking
Maturity level	I would like to think I am quite mature in mind, but I act openly eager to people to make them feel more comfortable around me
Weaknesses	I find it difficult at times to initiate conversation, being a visual person, I get very frustrated with myself if I look like a dogs breakfast on occasion
Type of Intelligence	I believe I’m as intelligent as I’ve been allowed to be.
“I believe…….” (personal motto or core belief)	I believe the world isn’t as complicated as we all see, that we the people are all one and share a collective unconscious, the real god is the mind and we are merely a dream experiencing ourselves subjectively