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Mirana Reveier
| Southeast Coast, USA | miranar@yahoo.com | http://hikarikat.com/mirana/ | download (doc)

EDUCATION
	Savannah College of Art and Design Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sequential Art March 2007

PROFESSIONAL/TECHNICAL SKILLS

Primarily a digital, 2D illustration, concept, and sequential artist with experience in web and graphic design. Seeking work that can be completed remotely from company offices.

Skills in
- Illustration
- Sequential (Comic) Art
- Pencils, Inks, Letters, Tone & Color
- Storyboarding
- Concept Art
- Character Design
- Maquette Sculpture
- Graphic Design
- Web Design
- Convention Guest
- Panels, Workshops, & Con Artwork
- Teaching/Tutorials
- Flash Animation
- Certified Framer

Software
- Corel Painter 8
- Adobe Photoshop 5.5-7 & CS
- Adobe InDesign 2
- Adobe Illustrator 9 & CS
- Adobe Acrobat 5
- Open Canvas
- Alias Sketchbook Pro
- Macromedia Flash MX
- PC & Mac platforms
- FTP Protocol

Natural Media
- ink
- watercolor
- acrylics
- oil
- charcoal
- pastel
- marker

EXPERIENCE
October 2006	Maquette Sculptor SCAD Savannah, GA Sculpt of secondary character included in pitch to major animation studios.

June 2006	Textbook Cover Artist Pearson Education / Addison-Wesley Professional Upper Saddle River, NJ Provided cover art for the Symantec software textbook title "Own Your Space" by Linda McCarthy.

Aug - Sept 2005	Children's Book Color Artist Royal Council of the Real Fairyland, LLC Wilmington, NC Digital colorist for a line of children's books.

Jun - Oct 2005	Children's Book Comic Artist Bill Smith Studio New York, NY Illustration work for graphic novel title Black Beauty for StoneArch Press.

Jun - Sept 2005	Storyboard Artist Edward Webb Los Angelos, CA Storyboarding & character model sheets for "Fly Guy" pitch.

Jun - Aug 2005	2D Artist: Character Concept Blackwater Software Designed characters & model sheets for the 3D fantasy game Kingdom Lost.

Feb - Aug 2005	Instructor Michael's Arts & Crafts Savannah, GA Conducted various monthly "How to Draw..." workshops.

July 2002	Cover Artist Michael W. Greene "Smashing Kings" book cover published in August 2003.

AWARDS/PUBLICATIONS
Selected Awards. (Full listing.) (2005) Anime South: Destin, FL - Honored as an Art Guest. (2004) Newtype Magazine US - Piece printed in Vol 03, Issue 12 of their magazine. (2004) Anime Weekend Atlanta - Overall winner of Art Show (2004 - 2005) Savannah College of Art & Design - Recipient of $40,000 Merit Scholarship (included in top 6%). One of five pieces chosen for the Sequential Art Gallery of the SCAD catalog, SCAD and mySCAD websites for 2005-2006. (2003 - 2005) DragonCon: Atlanta, GA - Honored as an Art Guest. Participated in panels and conducted a workshop. (2003 - 2005) TrinocCon: Durham, NC - Honored as an Art Guest. Participated in panels and conducted a workshop. (2002) Bandai Ent. - One of four pieces chosen by Character Designer Makoto Uno, to be featured in the gallery of the DVD "Love Hina, And the Winner Is." (2002) Nightjar Co. - Winner of the "Nightjar Appreciation" contest (2001) Broccoli Ent./Akadot.com/Omochabox.com - Winner of the 18+ Age Group and Best Overall. Piece printed in issue #7 of "From Gamers" (the Broccoli newsletter) in Japan (2001 - 2002) Animerica Magazine - Pieces printed in three issues, with a letter referring to the artwork in a fourth (2001) Rockstar Games - First place winner in an art contest featuring their product "Oni." (2000) Media Blasters - First and second pieces displayed in the DVD gallery of "Rurouni Kenshin, The False Prophet"