Brian S. Mah
ranmah [at] mahproductions [dot] com

EDUCATION
9/95 to 5/99                              
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. BFA in Animation: 1999.

6/97 to 8/98                                   
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY.

9/02 to 6/04                                   
Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH. 

9/05 to 12/06                                            
Tokyo School of the Japanese Language,Tokyo, Japan.

DESIGN EXPERIENCE
7/07 to Present  
Access Entertainment TV. Tokyo, Japan.  Production Assistant.  Assisted the production crew during filming of celebrities at conventions, red carpet events, and one to one interviews.

7/04 to 8/05                          
University of Cincinnati.  Cincinnati, OH. Freelance Artist.  Created a logo, book, bag, CD cover, and badge design for the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems. 

8/04 to 6/05                          
Industrial Technology Research Institute. Hsinchu, Taiwan. Research Assistant.  Worked as a research assistant to create a 3-D Animation short of the Research Institute. Created several animated shorts incorporatin. Motion Capture and 3-D Animation.  One animated short film was later presented at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.

DESIGN SKILLS
Macintosh and PC platforms, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Go Live, Adobe InDesign, Macromedia DreamWeaver, and Alias|Wavefront Maya.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
09/06 to 06/08                
Canadian International School, Tokyo, Japan. Art Teacher.  Responsible for teaching the basic principles of art to K-grade 5 students.  For the younger children, basic color and shapes are introduced.  For the older children, basic artistic techniques, such as light and shade are taught to the students.