Juan A. Gomez
Cell # 773-606-7066
juanesmie@earthlink.net

Objective
A position that utilizes my abilities to design, illustrate and generate creative ideas and
solutions, while collaborating with a team and guiding them to accomplish our goals.

Employment History
1999 - 2006
Concept Artist/ Computer Graphic Artist - Snap2play- (Chicago, IL)

Created concept art, storyboards and character illustrations and background art for
downloadable and web games. Created and produced animations and art assets in
2D and 3D. Illustrated magazine promotions. Worked closely with Art Director and
Producer to review, manage and post art assets for clients and programmers to
successfully meet deadlines. Created original children’s property, “Who? The Hex!”

1997-1999
Web Designer - Tunes.com (Rollingstone.com - theSource.Com - DownbeatJazz.com) - (Chicago, IL)

Responsible for designing ad banners and numerous promotional web pages for
recording artists. Assisted in designing web site for The Source Magazine. Provided
illustrations, graphics and GIF animations for The Source Magazine. Designed
commemorative millenium mini-web site for TDK which presented an overview of
events from the decade. Storyboard artist on Rockweek, the first 3D animated,
weekly news magazine series for the web.

Selected Clients and Projects

Nickelodeon
Numerous web games for the following properties: RugRats, SpongeBob SquarePants,
Fairly Odd Parents, Danny Phantom, The Wild Thornberries, Jimmy Neutron

Downloadable or Casual computer games: SpongeBob SquarePants Diner Dash, SpongeBob SquarePants Lost In Time

Lego
Numerous web games for the following properties: LEGO bricks, Star Wars, Bionicles, Minifigs,

Downloadable or Casual computer games: LEGO Builder Bots

Illustrations for the LEGO Club Magazine

Big Idea
Numerous web games for the following properties: Veggie Tales, 3-2-1 Penguins

CD - ROM game:Veggie Carnival

Sesame Workshop
Web game - Snuffleuppagus

Education
1989-1990 - Columbia College - 2D Animation
1996-1998 - Illinois Institute of Art - Computer Animation Program
1995 - Internship; Startoons animation studio
1998 - Internship; RollingStone.com
1991 - Marwen Foundation; Comic Book class

Awards
2003 - Midwest Multimedia Association Annual Interactive Awards;
Best Entertainment CD-ROM; "Veggie Tales: Veggie Carnival"
2000 - ToonBoom Animation Contest; First Place -

Organizations
Chicago Area Toon Novices And Professionals - Member since 2002
Chicago Creative Comic Professionals - Member since 1991

Graphics Software
3D - Maya
2D - Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop
Web - Adobe Dreamweaver
Interactive - Adobe Flash, Director

Computer Platforms
Windows
Macintosh OS X