Sheffield Abella
www.sheff.com
PO Box 94831
Las Vegas, NV 89193
702.731.5889
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CONTRACT CLIENTS
Valentine Foods. Los Angeles, CA. Client: Alcove Café.
DateSpaNetwork.com, Henderson Nevada. Identity and Web Design.
BorderBillboard. Las Vegas, Nevada. Client: Virgen Megastore New York
CityLife Magazine. Las Vegas, Nevada. Cover Illustrations: Tupac Shakur, Black Mountain Institute.
Hero Pictures. Los Angeles, CA. Client: Pontiac.
Hungry Man Productions. Los Angeles, CA. Client: AT&T.
Big Pictures Studio. Las Vegas, Nevada. Clients: MGM Grand, Desert Inn, Spirit Mountain.
Razorstream. Las Vegas, Nevada. Industrial Design for a Set Top Box, Remote Control, and Cameras.
Horizon Ridge Wellness Clinic. Henderson, Nevada. Web Design.
Vegas Speakers Group. Henderson, Nevada. Web Design.
DesertMold.com. Henderson, Nevada. Web Design.
Mariposa Films. Las Vegas, Nevada. Project: Elana's Story. Storyboards
Running Bull Productions. Las Vegas, Nevada. Clients: NAIOP, Southwest Luxury Living.
3V Graphics. Las Vegas Nevada. Client: Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Konami Gaming. Las Vegas, Nevada. Games: Hot Dawgs & Time Bomb Poker.
Aaron Russo, Campaign for Liberty. Los Angeles, CA.
Impulse Inc. Las Vegas, Nevada. Clients: Konami Gaming, MGM Grand.
Westwood Studios. Las Vegas, Nevada. Games: Red Alert 2
PGI.COM. Alexandria, Virginia. Client: Gillette.
Hispanic Magazine. Miami, Florida. Cover Illustration.
Las Vegas Digital Internet. Las Vegas, Nevada. Web Design.
AGENCIES
Grey Worldwide. Ontario, Canada. Client: Nokia N-Gage. Advertising Illustration.
Crear Creative Group. Las Vegas, NV. Client: Fiesta Casino Hotel. Poster Illustration for Cinco de Mayo.
Swan Advertising. Las Vegas, NV. Clients: Saturn, Toyota. Commercial Storyboards.
Blaine Warren. Las Vegas, NV. Client: Air Force Reserve. Poster Illustration.
Hands Ink. Las Vegas, Nevada Client: Flamingo Hilton Laughlin. Event Illustration.
HRH Creative. Las Vegas, Nevada. Client: Caesars Palace. Event Illustration.
Virgen Advertising. Las Vegas, Nevada. Client: The Venetian. Poster Illustration, Downtown Las Vegas Alliance.
Stratosphere Advertising. Las Vegas, Nevada. Client: Arizona Charlie's. Commercial Storyboards.
Merica Dickerson Advertising. Las Vegas, Nevada. Client: Main Street Station. Commercial Storyboards.
R & R/PBN Advertising. Las Vegas, Nevada. Clients: Excalibur Hotel and Casino and Circus Circus Hotel and Casino.
Advertising Marketing Solutions. Las Vegas, Nevada. Client: Star Nursery, Caesar’s Palace. Commercial Storyboards.
Seiniger Advertising. Los Angeles, CA. Client: Prime Sports. Illustration.
Synapse Technologies. Los Angeles, CA. Client: Wells Fargo. Illustration.
Interactive Support Group. Chatsworth, CA. Client: Phillips CD-I interactive.
EXPERIENCE
Art Institute of Las Vegas. Henderson, Nevada. 2004- Present. Instructor. Life Drawing, Advanced Life Drawing, Character & Object Design, Character Ideation, Color Theory, Illustration/Advanced Illustration, Observational Drawing and Digital Painting, Digital Imaging, Web Scripting.
Hello Network. Las Vegas, Nevada. Art Director/Lead Visual Development.
Web design, HTML, Logo Designs, Identity, Branding.
Global Communications. Las Vegas, Nevada. Lead Visual Development.
Web design, HTML, Logo Designs, Identity, Branding.
Adrienne Weiss Corporation. Los Angeles, CA. Illustrator and Designer.
Worked on projects for Bank One Stadium, Country Star Restaurants, Warner Bros. Stores, and MCI/Washington Bullets Stadium. Illustration, logo design, taglines and various other identity concept work.
Cloud 9 Interactive. Santa Monica, CA. Production Artist.
Created scratch art and final art for "How to Draw the Marvel Way" as well as integrated assets. Designed actuators for "Wanna-Be a Dino Finder".
Concept Arts Studios. Hollywood, California.
Sketches for photo shoots for First Kid, First Wives Club. Type solutions for Jerry Maguire and Surviving Picasso.
Pacific Art and Design. Los Angeles, California. Figure Drawing Instructor.
January 1995 - December 1995.
Manny Crisostomo Photography. Agana, Guam. Photographer's Assistant.
Aided in the production of Legacy of Guam. Manny Crisostomo won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in 1989 for his work at the Detroit Free Press.
EDUCATION
Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA.
Working towards Masters Fine Art in Animation, Visual Development Emphasis. 2008 - Present.
Art Center College of Design. Pasadena, California.
Bachelors in Fine Art Visual Communication with an Emphasis in Illustration. August 1994.
University of Guam. Mangilao, Guam.
Worked towards Bachelors in Art. June 1990 - May 1991.
Northern Arizona University. Flagstaff, Arizona.
Worked towards Bachelors in Fine Arts with Visual Communications Emphasis (Illustration/Painting). Three semesters.
Additional Training:
ConceptArt.org Workshops, Associates in Art, Workshops with Morgan Weistling, Burt Silverman, Sherrie McGraw & Jeff Watts, Gnomon Workshop Master Classes.
DIGITAL SKILLS
Expert
Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, openCanvas, ArtRage, Xara Xtreme Pro, Alias Sketchbook, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Homesite 5, RapidPHP, RapidCSS
Intermediate
Flash, Freehand, Illustrator,
Working knowledge
Maya, 3dStudio Max, Lightwave, Aura, Pixologic Zbrush, Equilibrium Debabelizer, Sonic Foundry Sound Forge, Imagine, Organica, Particle Illusion.
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