Resume

Resume / C.V.

Richard Boase
Motion Graphics Artist / Editor / Graphic Designer / Web Designer / Art Director

CONTACT

Cell UK +44 07930891807

Home UK +44 (0)20 8949 3037

richard@richardboase.com

www.richardboase.com

PERSONAL STATEMENT

I make a lot of motion graphics and movies for myself and I’ve done commercial work for Rimmel, Adidas, Carhartt, Uni-Qlo and Coca-Cola amongst others. I’ve built a few websites, including my own, www.richardboase.com, where you can find out more about me if you would like to. I’ve just returned from Tokyo, where I was VJing for two years with TOKYO VJ and Lightrhythm Visuals, and my next goal is to work in a small commercial team in a professional studio in London, Paris, New York or San Francisco.

I’m very keen on developing business relations between European, American and Asian production houses, fashion brands, pop-groups, directors etc. Ideally, in future, I want to be doing project management or art direction for broadcast.

I can handle quite a lot of technical responsibilities on set (e.g. lighting, camerawork, direction etc.), and also editing and compositing off set. I am looking for an environment where I can be a useful, helpful member of the team, practice my skills and help move things along swiftly and neatly to meet deadlines under budget, and have some fun.

If you think you have some space for me, I’d like to meet you. Please look at my showreel here: http://www.tribeofe.net/opolis/RICHARD%20BOASE/mpeg_h264%20SR_2008.mov

SKILLS

I’m very social and creative and I’m very serious about my career, so to let off steam I go mountain biking. I know these software packages well enough to use them all professionally -

Photoshop CS3

Illustrator CS3

In Design CS3

Flash MX Pro

Director MX

Final Cut HD 4.5 Pro

Adobe After Effects CS3

3ds Max 8

Swift 3d 3

DreamWeaver CS3

Fireworks CS3

Modul8 2.5

DVD Studio Pro

Premiere CS3

I use a Mac at home, but I use Windows for 3DS Max, and I’m comfortable on either platform.

Amongst other things, I can do -

Motion Graphic Design, Video Editing, Compositing, Titling, Sound Design, Flash Animation, 3d Design, Real-Time Audio/Video-Mixing for live shows,

Digital Print-Making, Interactive Web design and DVD Design.

I have also cultivated my skills in the following areas:

Illustration

Photography

Storyboarding

Japanese

Directing

Producing

French

Animating

Budgeting and Managing

These skills help me find a place amongst teams of creative people, and help me communicate with them over the substance, style and logistics of a production or project. I think it’s important to have a good positive attitude at work, and to maintain grace under pressure.

PERSONAL DETAILS AND EDUCATION

Colleges:

2005- GEOS, Brighton (Teaching Certificate)

2002-2005 University of Brighton: BA Hons in Multimedia covering: Motion Graphic Design, 3D Design, Interactive Web Media, Sound Design, Communications and Project Management

1998-2000 University of Central England: Visual Communication Foundation Certificate

Schools:

1995-1997 CSG London: 3 A-Levels

1992-1995 University College School, London: 8 GCSEs

Date of birth: 17 November 1978 in Seria, Brunei.

QUALIFICATIONS

Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA, Cambridge)

Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia (BA Honours)

Visual Communications Foundations Certificate (HNC)

A-Levels - Art (A), History of Art and Design (B), Global Media Studies (C)

Cello Grade 3, Taekwondo – Grade 6

Full, clean UK driving licence

International Driving Permit valid until January 2009

Valid British Passport

Work visa (Specialist in Arts and Humanities) valid in Japan until June 2008

BULBOUS CELL TOKYO (www.bulbouscell.com) Creative Director August 2007 – December 2007

I joined Bulbous in June 2007 after a short induction period. I acquired my first client for the studio in August and followed up in September and October.

Our client requested a large project on a very tight budget, which required us managing a team of five freelancers to deliver a DVD of the fashion show “Glamorous, Japan”. I organized a commercial shoot for Rimmel, London, - edited and presented it as part of a 5 hour visual show, hired cameramen to shoot the show, and then edited the final product onto DVD.

My duties at Bulbous Cell were initially as a motion graphics designer, but the managing director was keen that everyone in the company perform a range of different jobs, so I did sales and marketing too, and then project management.

I had to liase with clients to sell a range of media products like Customer Relationship Management systems, Content Management Systems, and services like Search-Engine Optimization.

My official title at Bulbous Cell was creative director, but I was responsible for a little bit of everything, including recruitment and lead generation. I also wrote treatments and selected and led the creative team.

I left in December 2007, when I moved back to London.

NOVA (Japan) Specialist in Arts and Humanities from June 2006 to June2007.

Nova employed me to teach business English for one year. It was my responsibility to help their Japanese students communicate in a large range of business situations, in a range of industries and services, and I gained some good skills with them as an instructor. Each day, my duties were to talk simply and directly with professionals from medicine, architecture, education, leisure, sales and finance, and to ascertain the type of problems they encountered every day in the English speaking workplace, and guide them through.

My time there helped inform me of the wide range of issues that face working professionals and also gave me a lot of exposure to different character types in Japan.

I left in June 2007 to Join Bulbous Cell full-time.

KERB (www.kerb.co.uk) (Clients DOCOMO JAPAN, SONY JAPAN), BBC UK) Junior Designer from September 2005 to November 2005

Kerb asked me to complete a compositing project they had undertaken for a Japanese TV company. They had created a feature-length cartoon in Flash, and wanted to re-animate it in After-Effects, prior to the release of Flash 8. I oversaw the restructuring process and output to DVD.

AMOEBA (www.theestateovcreation.co.uk) (clients – MTV)

Scott McPherson from Amoeba was my first motion graphics mentor, and helped me direct my first motion graphics short.

NINJA TUNE (HEXSTATIC)

I did work experience with Ninja Tune in 1999 as a VJ because I wanted to learn VJing and find out the basics of making music videos.

SPUTNIK – (June 2003 – June 2004) My duties at Sputnik were design oriented for print. They were very retro and cool, a little place in Birmingham, but they unfortunately went out of business.

RED LIGHT MEDIA – I did work experience (editing and directories) from June 2002 till June 2003) I started my career at the Red Light in King’s Cross London. Cataloguing their digi-beta tapes and reviewing their past works. I also had some experience with the AVID studio suite and the Media100.

REFERENCESCREATIVE

Stuart Ward

www.Bulbouscell.com

Akasaka, Tokyo 160-1000

Scott MacPherson

amoeba@theestateovcreation.co.uk

www.theestateovcreation.co.uk

Amoeba Studios

4 Cross Street

Brighton

BN2 AEP

+44 (0) 1273 326 169