Here are a handful of projects and images that might help you assess my ability to develop story content.
Alan O.W. Barnes
This letter expresses my interest in bringing my experience as a visual storyteller to Dreamworks. I know I can contribute to the productions you produce in deeply meaningful ways. Working at Dreamworks would literally be a dream come true for me. I’ve spent the last two decades working toward the goal of becoming an excellent story development artist.
As you can see from my resume, I have nearly 30 years of experience creating visual art and media using dry/wet media, video, print, sound, and web technologies. I have published illustrations and comic books consistently since 2013. I have worked with several established personalities and properties. As a media creator, I have consistently strived for excellence. I have done advertising work for Turner Broadcasting, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and many others. As a comic book artist, I have worked for cartable comics (Marrow Man - in connection with Be the Match) as well as my own book, Black Chaos Comes Again (which tells classic monster stories if the monsters were teenage girls living in the Mississippi). I’ve worked on several illustrated novels including Big in Japan (about a rock band that fights Kaiju in a huge cowboy robot), as well as children’s books (Like Corny the Caticorn, about a caticorn searching the world for friends).
In addition to these professional qualifications, I hold both an MM from Belmont University, where I specialized in Computer Music, and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Sequential Art. I mention the successful completion of these degrees as evidence that I can take direction, complete projects on time, and function in a larger organization. Further evidence of these capabilities can be understood if I expressed to you that I completed these degrees in my 30s while holding down both full time and part time positions simultaneously. Currently, I’m a professor at Johnson University where I teach Visual Media Production and Design, while also working as a full time communications professional for a Cathedral in downtown Atlanta (where the Peggy Carter Funeral from Captain America III was filmed).I mention this to communicate my extreme time management skills, and my ability to work remotely on deadline.
I hope to work with you.
Thanks in advance for any consideration.
Alan O.W. Barnes
Associate Professor of Digital Art, Johnson University