Resume

Personal Information

Name: Jamie Durrant
Birthdate:       18th April 1971
Current Age:   37
Location:         Surrey, United Kingdom
Nationality:      English
Currently Working on: Fable 2 GUI

Education

Norwich Institute of Art & Design.

  • Studied Foundation Art from 1987 to 1989.

Thorpe St Andrew Comprehensive.

  • ‘O’ Levels in English Language, Graphic Communication, Maths & Art (Ceramics).
  • ‘CSE’ in Art (Drawing), Physics, Commerce & French.

Professional History

This is a list of some of the places I have worked over the past few years.
Further details can be found on my LinkedIn profile.

Senior Graphic Designer

  • Lionhead Studios (Microsoft Game Studios; 100-150 employees)
  • Computer Games Industry
  • February 1998 – Present (10 years 2 months)

Currently responsible for the design of all of the Lionhead group of websites. Also responsible for scenario and level scripting in Black & White, particle effects design in Fable and implementing an internal forms process with Sharepoint and Infopath. Currently working on the Fable 2 GUI.

Lenticular Display Design

  • 3D/4D Holographics (Privately Held; 1-10 employees)
  • Marketing and Advertising Industry
  • 1997 – 1998 (1 year)

Created lenticular displays using 3D modelling software clients including DERA (Defence Evaluation and Research Agency) and Gordon’s Gin.

Modelmaker 

  • Design Etc
  • Design Industry
  • 1996 – 1997 (1 year)

Created props and small scale set design for the full range of Hasbro toy products.

Sculptor / Designer 

  • Treasure World (Privately Held; 11-50 employees)
  • Museums and Institutions Industry
  • 1991 – 1996 (5 years)

Designed and created large scale dioramas with computer controlled silicon skinned animatronic displays. Created the mechanics, sculpted and molded the silicon skins and choreographed the show. In addition, constructed an aztec themed restaurant with stone carvings and mass produced moldings.

Assistant Special FX Make-Up 

  • Geoff Portass (Self-employed)
  • Motion Pictures and Film Industry
  • March 1996 – July 1996 (5 months)

Assisted Geoff Portass with the application and removal of prosthetic foam pieces for a BBC production, “Dr Terror’s Vault of Horror” and an ITV series “Scratchy & Co” starring Mark Speight.

Trainee Computer Graphics Artist

  • The Travelling Matte Company
  • Broadcast Media Industry
  • July 1988 – December 1988 (6 months)

Worked on computer graphics system for the 2nd series of ITV’s “Knightmare“. Also created and demonstrated computer graphics capabilites for Virgin Video and the local Constabulary.

Skills

Multimedia Authoring Tools

  • .Flash (v8)
  • Actionscript
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Windows Media Encoder
  • Anark Studio

Graphic Development Tools

  • Adobe Photoshop CS/2/3
  • Adobe Image Ready CS2
  • Adobe Illustrator CS/2/3
  • Corel Draw
  • 3D Studio Max 9

WebSite Development Tools

  • HTML/DHTML/CSS
  • Javascript
  • PHP
  • GoLive
  • Frontpage
  • Dreamweaver

Document Development Tools

  • Sharepoint 2003 Portal Server
  • Sharepoint 2007 Portal Server
  • Sharepoint Designer 2007 - Windows Sharepoint Services
  • Infopath Design
  • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Frontpage,Publisher)
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Acrobat

Other Interests

  • Playing Games (currently: Bully on the Xbox 360)
  • Architecture/Design
  • Movies
  • Travelling
  • Photography
  • Home Cinema/AV

Recently

Categories