Neil Tolman

Vital Statistics

• Name: Neil Tolman
• Nickname: “Toldaddy”
• Title: Animator / Graphic Designer
• Hometown: Long Beach, CA
• Vacations In: Hawaii, Brazil
• Hobbies: Graphic design, film-making, exploring, hiking / backpacking, snow boarding!
• Favorite Food: Healthy stuff
• Movies: Pretty much anything… I’m a sucker for the original 3 Star Wars movies, especially ESB.
• Music: Rock in all it’s glorious forms. Lately a lot of A Perfect Circle, Muse, and Kasabian.
• Workstation: Mac Pro
• Mobile: iPhone
• Browser: Firefox
• Famous Quote: “Animate!”

Neil is a self-taught production artist with a solid background in graphic design, motion graphics, web design, 3D modeling and character animation. His start was in 1996 when he simply wanted to create an animation for his website, which became his proverbial “match in the gas can” explosion into the visual medium wilderness. Neil is skilled in many software applications including 3ds Max, Maya, Final Cut, Abode Premiere, After Effects, Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

His strengths include texturing, simple rigging, animating, rendering simple and complex objects/architectural environments, polygon modeling and NURBS (Nonuniform Rational B-Spline). He also enjoys creating graphics for print, web and video with a strong understanding of typography, color and print production (bleed, resolution, color mode and calibration).

Neil is Rio’s “Go-To” guy for creative vision, creating stunning designs for any type of media with outstanding results. Neil holds a degree in Advanced Character Studies and multiple certifications in the print and graphics field. If you were to take a snapshot of Neil after working hours, you’d likely find him chilling on the sofa with his feet up on the coffee table, having a nice rumble-with-the-cops in GTA 4, or perhaps delving deeper into the secrets of character animation.

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