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ANDREA SOTO

Resume

Work Experience

Contract Artist
Internal Trigger | remote | Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
Provided visual development for gaming projects including character design, gameplay concepts, and animatics.

Contract Animator
LSV Communications | remote | July 2023 - Sep 2023
Provided animation services for LSV Communications. Produced a short animated video for Onboarding that included 2D animated characters and motion graphics. Responsible for character design, storyboarding, all aspects of the 2D animation process, and post production.

Peer Teacher
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | College Station, TX | Fall 2022
Working under Prof. Sam Woodfin, I assisted him during his Digital Painting course. I provided feedback for other students and answered relevant questions.

Student Comic Book Illustrator
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | College Station, TX | Jan-Aug 2022
Tasked to work with a team to illustrate a historical fiction comic book telling the backstory of a famous astronomer, Lewis F. Richardson. I created layouts for pages based on the script, rough drawings, inking, and concept designs for characters.

Projects

Sports Manga Project
Remote | Aug 2023 - Present
Working with writer Samuel Teer, I boarded, sketched, inked, and polished 8 pages for a manga-style 

I Am: Hero Animatic
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | College Station, TX | Fall 2022
For my Undergrad Capstone Project, I made an animatic with the goal to combine 2D & 3D animation techniques while focusing on layout, cinematography, choreography, and storytelling.

Dancing Girl
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | College Station, TX | Fall 2022
Mentorship with DreamWorks animator Catherine Chooljian to improve my 3D character animation skills and to create portfolio quality pieces.

MoonStruck
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | College Station, TX | Summer 2022
Made during Summer Industry Course, we worked closely with mentors from DreamWorks to create a stylized animated short with realistic rendering and a character with groom.

Open for Beezness
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | College Station, TX | Jan 2022 – May 2022
An animated short made during vertical studio where we worked in teams with senior, junior, & sophomore classmates.

I Am: Hero (Graphic Novel)
PERSONAL | 2017 - current
A comic book series that follows the journeys of 4 teenage heroes in a world full of epic creatures, villains, and gods. The first issue is written and scripted, and the following eight issues are planned.
Genre superheroes, adventure, action, comedy.

Paper Cut
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | College Station, TX | Spring 2021
An animated short made during vertical studio where we worked in teams with senior, junior, & sophomore classmates.

Garden of Witches
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | College Station, TX | March 21, 2021
For an Animation Jam--hosted by UTD, UT, & TAMU-- teams had 48 hours to create a short, animated story based on the prompt: “Garden of ___”.

Skills

  • 2D Traditional Animation

  • 3D Animation

  • Action & FX Animation

  • Storyboarding

  • Layout

  • Figure Drawing

  • Character Design

  • Digital Painting

  • Traditional Painting

  • Clay Modeling

  • Inking

Software

Windows / Mac / Linux​

  • Maya

  • Blender

  • ZBrush

  • Photoshop

  • After Effects

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iPad​

  • Procreate 

  • RoughAnimator

Education

Texas A&M University, College Station      December 2022
BS in Visualization, focus in Animation
 

Interests

  • Sports (sailing, tennis, skiing, archery)

  • Table top RPGs

  • Robotics, bio mechanics, physics

  • Board/card games

  • The outdoors, hiking​

  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

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