Steve Swehla
Director of Animation and Production at 3D-Forensic | Forensic Animation, Video Analysis, Laser Scanning, and Photogrammetry- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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3D Forensic, Inc
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United States
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Animation and Post-production
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director of Animation and Production
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Jul 2016 - Present
At 3D Forensic, I create precise, realistic, and complex 3D models, environments, and prototypes in areas including medical procedures, psychological human behavior and reactions, anatomical reaction and movement, environmental events, accident reconstruction, transportation and vehicle movement, and criminal activity.Our animation team:- Implemented motion capture solutions for human animation that could be mobile, wireless, and capable of concealable motion sensors, to increase character animation quality and productivity by 8x. - Manages laser scans of environments, objects, and people to import point cloud data and meshes, and builds and augments animations.- Engages in a conscious production workflow through storyboarding practices and frameworks that strategically aligns our team towards a unified creative vision.
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Freelance Animator
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Jun 2010 - Jul 2016
Highlights include:Charles Schultz Museum: Taught 4 week stop-motion animation course for 8-12 year olds, including storytelling techniques and fundamentals of animation. Spearheaded the museum’s first Blendr computer animation course for kids the following year.Ben & Jerry’s: Hand modeled in a stop-motion animated commercial!Nordstrom: Co-animated and managed production for stop-motion Christmas commercial that was shown on TV and web. Highlights include:Charles Schultz Museum: Taught 4 week stop-motion animation course for 8-12 year olds, including storytelling techniques and fundamentals of animation. Spearheaded the museum’s first Blendr computer animation course for kids the following year.Ben & Jerry’s: Hand modeled in a stop-motion animated commercial!Nordstrom: Co-animated and managed production for stop-motion Christmas commercial that was shown on TV and web.
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Solage Calistoga
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United States
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Hospitality
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1 - 100 Employee
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Manager of Information Technology
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Jun 2010 - Jun 2016
Managed, maintained, and troubleshooted company servers, reservation system, point-of-sale, network system, and websites. Strong customer skills, responsiveness, a sense of urgency, and a spirit for learning new skills and technologies catapulted me from bartending and serving, to front-desk, to corporate position. Managed, maintained, and troubleshooted company servers, reservation system, point-of-sale, network system, and websites. Strong customer skills, responsiveness, a sense of urgency, and a spirit for learning new skills and technologies catapulted me from bartending and serving, to front-desk, to corporate position.
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Education
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Westwood College-Anaheim
Bachelor's degree, Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects