Grace Fong - fongmingyun

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Status:
Name: Grace Fong
Gender: Female
Birthdate: Jan 28th 2012
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Sketchbook: Halted Productivity - Sketchblog
Website:
Halted Productivity - Blog, Grace Fong - Portfolio, Fongmingyun - DeviantART
Member Type:
Professional for 1 year, 6 months
Field:
TD
Projects I've
worked on:
Kung Fu Panda 2
Current employer:
DreamWorks Animation
Areas of expertise:
illustration, 3d modeling, texturing, programming
Skills:
photoshop, illustrator, indesign, maya, painter, aftereffects, comicworks, c, java, html, css
Available for Work?
Yes - Freelance
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About

Hobbies:
Drawing, Writing, Eating, Cooking, Blues Dancing
Movies:
Pirates of the Caribbean, Spiderman I & II, Lord of the RIngs Trilogy, Batman: The Dark Knight, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, A Very Long Engagement
Music:
The Killers, Dropkick Murphys, Pierrot, D'Espairs Ray, Reel Big Fish, Thomas Fersen, Clownage, 90's Disney Music, Les Miserables
Artists:
Jen Zee, Jo Chen, Jason Chan, Kuang Hong, James Jean, Todd Lockwood, Jon Foster, Sam Weber
Tools:
Photoshop, Pencil/Color Pencil, Soft Pastel, Watercolor
Websites:
About:
I am a technical director at DreamWorks Animation, working with the surfacing department on Kung Fu Panda 2. I spend my days creating, fixing, and locating assets in our Goliath-sized pipeline and developing intuitive tools for our artists.

I recently graduated with dual bachelors' (Digital Media Design) and masters' (Computer Graphics and Game Technology) student at the University of Pennsylvania. My field is computer science with a concentration in graphics programming and a minor in Fine Arts.

I've done freelance work for the Onion News Network and business school start-up endeavors as well as research work in crowds and schizophrenics' interpretation of faces here at my university. I headed my school's SIGGRAPH chapter and served as a teaching assistant for 3D Modeling and Introductory Computer Programming. For my senior project, I created a Maya plugin which would adjust standard human models based on drawn input.

At heart, I'm also a little bit of a storyteller. My skill set includes many common programs and languages, such as Photoshop, Maya, MEL, Python, C++, and Java. I can do almost anything digital media related: illustration, modeling, animation, scripting, and web design to name a few. When not drawing, I enjoy conventions, comic books, cooking, karaoke, and blues dancing.