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ROBH RUPPELS RESUME
Art Direction/Visual Development

Professional Summary
Highly Skilled, experienced and versatile 2D/3D professional with over 20 years of combined experience using digital and traditional media. Worked as Art Director/Production Designer for Disney Feature Animation and as an independent designer. Extensive background in the digital/traditional arts including layout design, vis dev, character design, set design,game production art, product design and as a landscape painting instructor.
Self-motivated, innovative, and works well under pressure- meeting all challenging and mission critical deadlines. Obsessed with creative challenges beckoning artistic solutions.
Professional Areas of Expertise
  • Photorealistic and/or stylistic painting, texturing, and rendering
  • Digital and traditional 2D illustration and design
  • 3D modeling
  • Set design 
  • Character design
  • Art direction
  • Style guides
  • Mock ups
  • Layout design
  • Lighting
  • Photography
  • Matte Painting
  • Lightwave 3D, Electric Image Universe, Maya, Photoshop, Painter,  After Effects, MS Word/ Office
  • Mac OS X, Windows XP and Red Hat Linux
Career Highlights
  • Art Director- Meet the Robinsons, Brother Bear; Disney Feature Animation
  • Robh Ruppel Art Trading Card Series- created over 100 paintings for RPG
  • Layout Stylist- Empors New Groove; Disney Feature Animation
  • Silver Medal- Spectrum 2 Fantasy Art Annual, 1995
  • Instructor- Art Center College of Design
Feature Animation Work History

Art Direction: Designed environments and props in 2D and 3D, worked with layout, set up lighting and scene color keys

  • Meet the Robinsons- Disney Feature Animation, 2003 to Present
  • Brother Bear- Disney Feature Animation, 2000- 2003

Visual Development: Created and designed environments, props, and color keys

  • Treasure Planet- Disney Feature Animation, 2002
  • Atlantis, The Lost Empire- Disney Feature Animation, 2000-2001
  • Tarzan- Disney Feature Animation, 1998-99
  • Kingdom of the Sun- Disney Feature Animation, 1997-98
  • Mulan- Disney Feature Animation, 1996-97

Layout Stylist: Created, Stylized and designed environments and props

  • Emporors New Groove- Disney Feature Animation, 1998-2000
Related Work History
  • FX Houses- Boss Films (under Mark Stetson), Robert Short,
    (Summer-Winter) 1985
  • NPL- Worked at a Local production house in Houston as an Oxberry Animation cameraman, 1982-83
Education
  • California Art Institute under Fred Fixler, 1987-89
  • Art Center College of Design Industrial Design and Illustration Major, 1983-87
  • University of Houston 1982-83