Resume | Bridget Olson

Education  Bachelor of Creative Technologies (Minor: Art History) 2020
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA GPA: 3.32

Skills

Adobe Photoshop (CS6 Certification), After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Premiere Pro, Aseprite, Photography, Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Red Giant, Unity, Digital and Traditional artwork, 2D and 3D Animation, Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint (MOS Certification)

Experience

Artist at Serenity Forge
SEP 2020 - PRESENT
- Creating graphics, paintings, and physical products for Doki Doki Literature Club Plus, Cyanide and Happiness Freakocalypse, Death's Gambit and more under NDA
- Creating 2D, 3D, paintings, and animations for Homestead Arcana, Half Past Fate: Romantic Distancing, and more under NDA

Serenity Forge Internship- 3D Environment and 2D Artist

MAY 2020 - AUGUST 2020

- 3D modeling assets in Maya, texturing in Photoshop, assembling in Unity for a look dev scene
Concept art, icons, animations, and GIFs created for potential game

WW1 Belgium Dig, Blacksburg, VA – 3D Artist
AUGUST 2018 - DECEMBER 2018
- Remastered 3D scanned WW1 objects found and produced 360 VR virtual museum

- 3D scanned monuments around Virginia Tech campus and configured into point cloud data

Triple C Camp, Charlottesville, VA - IT Specialist 
JUNE 2018 - AUGUST 2019
- Filming, editing daily videos, photography
- Maintain all print media including magazine and newspaper ads
- Supervision and safety for 120 camp patrons

Freelance Artist Graphic Design, Charlottesville, VA - Artist
JUNE 2014 - PRESENT
- Commissioned by various clients to create music videos, animations, and illustrations
- Design logo and banners for album art, website, and advertisements
- Digitally converted analog slides and media to DVD format and restored imperfections

Achievements and Awards
- Interviewed by NBC29 for winning bus design 2020

- Featured on Virginia Tech's Student Arts Spotlight 2020

- Featured on Adobe's Instagram Story 2020

- Bus Design winner Tom Tom Summit 2020
- Published in Silhouette for 3D, photography and Illustration 2018-2020
- Student Spotlight and featured three times on the official SOVA Instagram page 2020
- Featured in Tech-Girls Weekly 2020
- SOVA Ambassador/Recruiter and Photoshop workshop teacher 2019
- Published in C-Ville Weekly for photography 2019
- Scuba club 2018-2020

- Paul H. Cale Elementary, classroom volunteer 2017-2019
- Studied art, architecture, and design a semester in Italy 2018
- Digital Imaging Award, and Outstanding Achievement in Career Tech Edu 2015
- Lighthouse Studio, Volunteered with Tech Girls, PC game design 2015-2016