Sveinbjörn J. Tryggvason
+354.847.7768
sjt@sjt.is
EDUCATION
Diploma with Honours – 2008
Vancouver Film School – 3D animation & visual effects
Diploma in multimedia – 2006
The school of multimedia, Iceland
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Framestore CFC March 2009
Did object animation on Sherlock Holmes and some work for The Prince’s Rainforest project at the Icelandic Framestore branch.
Gagarín March 2006 – Present
Worked on numerous projects handling motion graphics, 3d, editing, color grading, scripting, programming and some tool developement.
Himinn og haf, now TBWA\REYKJAVÍK June 2005 – December 2006
Multimedia designer for various projects, my responsibilities included web, print and Flash design, web and Flash programming and motion graphics using After Effects.
ACHIEVEMENTS
My final project from Vancouver Film School ‘friends?’ was nominated for an award in the ‘Well Told Falbe’ category at the 2009 Siggraph Computer Animation Festival.
The Settlement exhibition Reykjavik 871 +/-2 was awarded the 2006 NODEM award. The award is granted for “Best Design of Digital Experiences in Museums” in the Nordic countries.
TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE
Applications
Maya, XSI, Cinema 4d, After effects, Shake, Nuke, Final Cut Pro, Color, Renderman, MentalRay, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere.
Programming
Mel/Python scripting for Maya
ActionScript for Flash
Scripting for Adobe Products (AE, Illustrator)
Several years of experience programming web sites in PHP/Mysql
Familiar with Java, Objective-C and C/C++
REFERENCES
Available upon request.