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TOM LONGTIN
Computer Programmer

P.O. Box 104
BENNINGTON, VT 05201
Ph: 802/442-6441 E-mail: tlongtin@sover.net
WWW: http://www.sover.net/~tlongtin/

EDUCATION:

Majored in mechanical engineering and computer science specializing in computer graphics under Professors Chuck Csuri and Chris Yessios at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

EMPLOYMENT:

Most recently created cover images for "Gear Technology" (Jan./Feb. '96) and "Power Transmission Design" (March '96) trade journals. Also supplied images for American Gear Manufacturers Association's "News Digest" (Jul./Aug. '95) and for LNP Engineering Plastics' brochure.

More than one year at Boston University's Office of Information Technology Computer Graphics Lab. Wrote several utility programs including image conversions among different file formats but was mostly involved in conducting tutorials using Wavefront's Advanced Visualizer on Silicon Graphics workstations.

Worked in collaboration with artist/sculptor Brower Hatcher of Lake George, NY to create computer-aided-designs of his wireframe sculptures. For this I developed several programs using the facilities of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Engineering Computing Services and their MicroVAX GPX workstations.

Six months as a freelance programmer at The Fantastic Animation Machine in Manhattan. Modeled several Olympic buildings for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Created several data generation programs for Fantastic's software library.

Three months at New York Institute of Technology on Long Island as a 3D graphics programmer. Created modeling software for N.Y.I.T.'s "Strawberry Fields", animation.

Nine months at Computer Animation Laboratory in Frankfurt, Germany primarily developing software in 'C' under UNIX. Secondarily, I was involved as an animator in the production effort when new software needed to be designed and it was more effective for me to implement programs I was developing. In general, my efforts were directed towards data generation and manipulation and motion control.

Two and one-half years at Cranston/Csuri Productions, Columbus, Ohio. My position there was somewhat similiar to that at Computer Animation Lab, which was writing software in support of our animators. This included data generation/manipulation and motion control programs.

Two years part-time for the Department of Engineering Mechanics at The Ohio State University writing display and analysis programs for finite-element data. This was in a VAX-750 VMS environment programming in Fortran and using Tektronix 4014 vector displays.

The following details awards received for animations I created or was involved in creating.

Organization:  International Film Festival, New York
Recipient:     Cranston/Csuri Productions
               1984 Gold Medal:    CBS Sports Super Bowl XVIII
               1984 Silver Medal:  NBC Sports Series
               1984 Bronze Medal:  ARD German Television

Organization:  Chicago International Film Festival
Category:      Special Achievement in Computer Graphics
Recipient:     Cranston/Csuri Productions
               1984 Silver Plaque: CBS Sports Super Bowl XVIII

Organization:  Broadcast Promotion and Marketing Executives
Category:      Network Non-promotion "Image" Animation
Recipient:     Cranston/Csuri Productions
               1985 Gold Medallion: CBS Sports "International
               Race of Champions" (IROC)

Organization:  Houston International Film Festival
Category:      Lead-ins, Credits, Titles or Trailers
Recipient:     Cranston/Csuri Productions
               1985 Gold Medal: CBS Sports Super Bowl XVIII
               1985 Silver Medal: CBS Sports IROC
Category:      Television Commercials
Recipient:     Cranston/Csuri Productions
               1985 Bronze Medal: Sony "Designers & Engineers"

Organization:  Videotape Production Association VPA Monitor Award
Category:      Computer Animation
Recipient:     Cranston/Csuri Productions
               1985 Best Achievement in Computer Animation:
               CBS Sports IROC
Recipient:     Tom Longtin
               1985 Best Computer Animator: CBS Sports IROC

Organization:  CLIO Awards Advisory Board
Category:      Animation, Computer
Recipient:     Cranston/Csuri Productions
               1985 Certificate of Creative Excellence:
               CBS Sports IROC

Organization:  Online International, London, England
Category:      Fine Art
Recipient:     Cranston/Csuri Productions
               1985 First Place: "Gears"

Magazine:      Computer Pictures
Category:      Best Corporate TV Commercial
Recipient:     Cranston/Csuri Productions
               1985 TRW "The Best Idea in the World"

Organization:  National Computer Graphics Association
Category:      Experimental Computer Graphics
Recipient:     Cranston/Csuri Productions
               1986 First Place: "Gears"

Organization:  Houston International Film Festival
Category:      Computer Graphics
Recipient:     Cranston/Csuri Productions
               1987 First Place: "Gears"

Some of my "Gears" animations are included in Mirimar's "The Mind's Eye" video and in a music video by Carlos Alomar of Private Music, NY, titled "Hallucinations"

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