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Allen Pinkerton

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3D Design Lead
Long Beach | United States

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Fox Head, Inc.

3D Design Lead | 11/2019 - Current

3D/CAD design lead for industrial design hard goods team across mountain bike and motocross. Model in Alias and Maya. - Ideation and concept creation for hard goods ID team through rapid modeling and keyshot renderings.
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Honda R&D Americas, Inc

Visualization Group Manager | 05/2018 - 11/2019

- Lead team in 3D visualization, VR and modeling. - Forecast man-hours for group, create schedules. - Expert in realtime & DCC so•ware. Deltagen, Unreal Engine 4, VRED, Maya, Alias. - Create movies/animations for design studio.
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ArtCenter College of Design

Part Time Faculty | 09/2018 - 06/2019

Part-time faculty for Graduate Transportation Design and Systems
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Honda R&D Americas, Inc

Senior Visualization Designer | 09/2017 - 05/2018

- Creative Director for animations, presentations, 2D/3D digital design proposals - Manage Advanced Visualization Design Team. - Advanced Concept Design Techniques using Maya, Vred, Deltagen, Keyshot, Alias, PiXYZ, Unity/Unreal - HMI UX/UI Design and implement VR workflows. - Investigate new technologies to aid in design. - Video Editing, Motion Design, A•er Effects
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Intel Corporation

Senior Industrial Designer | 09/2014 - 09/2017

Worked with Hans Moritz of Oakley and Mark Eastwood of Giro Bell Helmets as a Sr. Industrial Designer for Intel's New Devices Group - Wearables Consumer Electronics, Fitness and Tech - Lead ID for many wrist worn and other wearable devices from concept ideation to 3D CAD creation for tooling. - Sketch, Concept, 3D Modeling, Keyshot, Present to Executives. - Animations, product renderings, CMF, package and graphic design with ad agency. - Interface with UX/UI teams, Mechanical Engineering, manufacturing and marketing.
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Honda R&D Americas, Inc

CGI Designer & Modeler | 02/2012 - 09/2014

Lead designer for Visualizations, animations and modeling. Interior HMI UX/UI visualizations, real-time 3D presentations, full animations and short movies. Interior and exterior renderings. Photoshop, Illustrator, A•er Effects, Showcase, Bunkspeed, RTT 3DXcite Deltagen, Keyshot, Vred. - Exterior rapid polygon concept modeling in Maya and Modo. - Alias modeling. - UV texture creation. All 3D creation. - Maya mental ray/vray lighting, rendering. - Exterior polygon morph animations. - Graphic Design and UX/UI Concepts, Visual Design.
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Visualization & Modeling Team

Supervisor | 05/2006 - 02/2012

Supervise CAD Data Prep conversion and visualization design teams. Modeling, Shading/texture, UVs. Use DeltaGen to create photo realistic scenes. Certified DeltaGen user. Maya skills in texture, Light, Animate, Render. Lead modeler for the modeling and data prep department at RTT USA in Pasadena. Supervising role overlooking all data that comes into the office. Data CAD conversion expert, poly modeling of so• goods in maya and Zbrush. Research of new so•ware and tools. Overseeing projects. Clients include Osiris shoes, Lexus, Audi, Ferrari, Nissan, Infiniti, Spyker, Fisker, Coach, Boeing, Teague, Opel, Honda, Acura, GM, Jeep, Ford, Ken Block DC Shoes. Developed Linear Light Scanner for true measure materials.
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Nissan Motor Corporation

Lead Visualization Designer | 05/2008 - 10/2008

Lead and train virtual garage team within design studio to build marketing assets for Infiniti G37 coupe. Including polygon modeling, Interior Rendering and Animations.
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Modeler

Visualization Designer | 07/2007 - 12/2007

Train at RTT HQ in Munich Germany. Part of the data prep team. Poly modeling, UVs, texture assignment, DeltaGen work.
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Visualization & Modeling Team

Internship | 11/2005 - 01/2007

Design, visualization, modeling, texture creation and other general CG work. Create materials for Art Center CMTEL lab. CMTEL Material and Textile Design

Education history

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ArtCenter College of Design

Bachelor's Degree | 2001 - 2007

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Clemson University

| 1999 - 2000

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Gnomon School of Visual Effects

| 2013 - 2014

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Pasadena City College

| 2001 - 2003

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Robert Lievanos

Global Brand Manager / Creative-Art Director / Sr. Graphic Designer
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