Steve Smith
29443 Spruce Canyon Drive, Golden, CO 80403
(303)642-2332 - SteveSmith@ArtToyz.com
Work Experience
5/12 – Present  Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design – Adjunct Instructor
1/10 - Present  Arttoyz Studios - Fine Art and Computer Graphic Services - Owner
1/92 - Present  Jazz Alley TV - Lead Animator for TV and Film Production company.
8/97 - 1/2010   Art Institute of Colorado - Denver, CO, Professor in Media Arts and Animation and Visual 					Effects/Motion Graphics - Instructor in traditional art media as well as 3D Modeling, Lighting, Character 			Animation and Rigging, and Special Effects
8/96 - 8/97        Art Institute of Colorado - Denver, CO - Academic Department Director - Computer Animation
Responsible for administration and management of students and faculty in computer animation. Budgeting and planning to expand from Associates Degree to Bachelor's Degree Program
8/95 - 8/96        Parsons Brinckerhoff - Denver, CO - Computer Artist and Animator
		Creation of simulations in the form of stills, animation, virtual reality for transportation industry; 
		production management, creation and execution of electronic presentations for large contracts;
		creation and maintenance of web pages, interactive applications, interactive newsletter,R&D
11/88 - 8/95      Robert Waxman, Inc. - Denver, CO - Applications Engineer
		- Responsible for production management, creation and execution of electronic presentations;
		demonstrations of computer graphic and animation software; primary trainer; animator and computer
                                graphic artist for Waxman’s Industrial Network and WAND; tech support and seminars
4/85 - 11/88      Pallas Photo Labs - Denver, CO - Computer Artist
		Creation of slide shows involving complex artwork; care and operation of computer graphic equipment;
		quality maintenance and control of production artwork		
10/83 - 4/85     Genigraphics, Inc. - Denver, Colorado - Computer Artist
		Responsibilities included creation, proofing, shooting and quality control; digitizing logos; 35mm copy 
                                stand; software, film recorders; color copy center and Genigraphics consoles; demos to clients
 11/84 - 2/85   Genigraphics, Inc. - Acting Production Manager 
- Personnel administration for the production staff of Commercial Art, including employment, recruiting, evaluation,  training and orientation; also included quality control, and equipment maintenance
Associations 
- Denver/Boulder ACM Siggraph, Vice Chairman, 1987 – 1990
- Video Unlimited, Boulder Cable Channel 19, Friday Night Live  Broadcasts, 1988
- Rocky Mountain 3D Studio Users Group, 1992 -1995
- Commerce City High School Advisory Board – 2002 - 2007
- Current Member of ASIFA and SIGGRAPH, AAUGC Webmaster – Autodesk Animation Users Group of Colorado
Education and Professional Training
1972 - Graduated from Bear Creek High School, Morrison, CO
1974 - University of Northern Colorado, Summer Session, Florence, Italy
1976 - B.A. in Art Education, Colorado State University, CO
1982 - M.F.A. in Painting and Computer Graphics, University of  Colorado, Boulder, CO
1983 - Genigraphics Console Training, 3 Weeks, Syracuse, NY :1988 - P.G.P. Training, 1 Week, Irvine, CA
1989 - Topas Animator Training, 3 Days, AT&T Graphic Software Labs, Indianapolis, IN 
-	Quark Xpress, PowerPoint &Hypercard Courses, ConnectingPoint, Denver, CO
1991 - 3D Studio Dealer Training - Autodesk, 1 Week, Sausalito, CA 
1992 - Silicon Graphics & Alias Power Animator Training - 1 Week, Mountain View, CA
1994 - FAST Video Machine Digital Nonlinear Editing Training - 2 Days, Bellingham, WA
1994 - Autodesk 3D Studio  Release 4.0 Dealer Authorization Training - Los Angeles, CA
2007 - Autodesk Level 1 Professional Certification – in progress
Freelance
- Mammoth Micro, Denver, CO - CD Rom Development, 1993
- K-Street Systems, Denver, CO - 3D Studio MAX training CD-ROMs, 1997 - 1998
- University of Southern Colorado Animation Seminars and Visiting Artist Programs, 1993, 1995, 1998 and 1999
- Grasp Multimedia – CD ROM, DVD and Web Applications, 3D Animation and Videography – 1996 - Present
- Taos Solar Music Festival – Film Crew Leader, Videography, Editing and Animation 2000 - 2005
- ArtToyz Studios – Freelance - Haertling Designs, Wild Divine Band and Game, CAT Designs

Art Exhibitions
1975 - Group Show, Florence Alumni, Latent Image Gallery, Greeley, CO
1978 - One Man Show, Paintings and Drawings, Marymount College, Salina, KS, 1 Month
1979 - “In Plane View”, Five Man Show, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO, October
1980 - “Its Our Community”, Group Show, Lincoln Community Center, Fort Collins, CO
1981 - One Man Show, Fiske Planetarium, Boulder, CO, Month of February.
1982 - 7 Person Group Show, Northwest Gallery, Northwestern Community College, Powell, WY,  Month of Feb.
           - “Draw 82”, National Juried Exhibit, Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, CO, Feb. & Mar.
           - One Man Show, Computer Graphics, Bridge Gallery, Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO
           - Represented by Carson-Sapiro Art Gallery, 1411 Market St., Denver, CO
           - “Hard Copy” - Computer Images, Spark Gallery, Denver, CO, Month of August
1983 - “New Tools: Machine and Image”, Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, CO
1985 - “Denver-Boulder ACM/Siggraph Art Show”, Raddison Hotel, Denver, CO, 1st and 3rd Awards
           - “Silicon Desert Graphex”, the Siggraph Gallery at Tower Plaza, Phoenix, AZ - Month of March
1986 - “Denver-Boulder ACM/Siggraph Art Show, University of Denver, Denver, CO - Month of Nov.
1987 - “Best of the West Fest”, Gracing the Spaces”, a computer graphic, 6 projector multi-image presentation, Silver Award
             Art and Entertainment Category, June 10-13
1988 - 3 projector Animations and Interview, Channel 19, Boulder, CO, September 16
           - “Saturday Night Waveout”, Multimedia Sound Movement Experiment, The Dance Place, Boulder, CO.
           - “Who’s Winning the Human Race”, a Participatory Cellular Dance Experience, Three 2-projector animations, 
             Fiske Planetarium, Boulder, CO, September 28
           - Various Live Performances with “The Fractals”, Wave Fusion Band, Slides and Lighting 
1989 - “First Annual Computer Graphics Show”, Colors at the Art Exchange, June 9-23, Denver, CO
1990 - “Second Annual Computer Graphics Show”, Colors at the Art Exchange, Denver, CO
1993 - Various Productions for the Electric Co. - Live slides with dance, video, lights and effects
           - “My Very Best”, Boulder Art Center, Boulder, CO - Month of August  - Juried Print Show, Core Gallery, Denver CO
           - CSU Alumni Show, Fort Collins, CO - Month of July
1994 - Multimedia light enhancement  for the Fox Theater, Leftover Salmon Music Performance
1994 - Premium Productions Multimedia Light Performances at various sites, Slides, Lasers and Video
1996 - "Assemblages" - The Light House, Louisville, CO - Month of June - "Digital Images" - Group Show, Regis College,
              Denver, CO - Month of September - "Faculty Shows" - Colorado Institute of Art. Denver, CO – each year until 2009
1998 - 1999 - “SpaceStock” – a series of 3 multimedia events with live music, slide shows, dayglo art in conjunction with
              United Societies in Space
1999 - Launch of ArtToyz.com - Art for the masses. Free art and art creation software
2001 - “The New Havoc Amatuers” - Fire Performance Group, four live performance tapings - WendoProductions,
             multimedia slide shows for after hours parties 
2006 - “Gallery of Mountain and Sea”,  gallery exhibit, Golden, CO
2007 - “Reunion” a reunion of Coast to Coast Artists originally from Fort Collins in the 1970 - COCOA Gallery -
             Month of July, Fort Collins, CO - ArtToyz Studioz opens in Golden, CO - art training , freelance art, gallery
2009 - Tin Angel Cafe and Gallery, Salt Lake City, Broken Glass and Mirror Mosaics - Month of September
           - Juror and participant, Boulder Handweavers Guild Annual Juried Showcase, Boulder County Fairgrounds, 
             Longmont, CO - Month of November2010
2010 -2011 - Galleries - “Green Belly”, Eldorado Springs and “Off Her Rocker” in Nederland, Colorado.
           - Various Juried Art Festivals in Colorado – Steamboat, Denver, Carbondale
2012 – Together Now – RMCAD Biannual Faculty Exhibition 
Software Experience
UNIX / Mainframe - Genigraphics 100D  - Silicon Graphics - Alias Power Animator - Alias Eclipse - Showcase - Pandemonium
PC & MAC-  Autodesk - 3Ds Max (3D Studio MAX – Beta Tester for Release 1.0,  3.0, and 7.0), Maya, Combustion, AutoCAD, - Adobe - Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, , After Effects, Audition, Encore DVD, Flash - Corel - Draw, Paint  - Microsoft  - Power Point, Office - Quark  Xpress - Macromedia Director, Pagemaker
Publications
- Mountain States Advertising/Marketing Review, March 1985, Cover - IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Article on
  Genigraphics Art Who, 3/1985 - The Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry, Supplement No. 7, 1985,Cover 
  - Rocky Mountain News, Sunday September 19, 1985, Entertainment Section, Article on Artist - A Day in the Life of America,
   computer graphics support, Logo Design and T-Shirt, April 1986 - AV Video, January 1990, Art Gallery - Computer Graphics
   World, September 1991 - Resolution, Fall 1991 - Computer Artist, October/November 1993 – Art in a Digital Timespace,
   1995 Digital Art Calendar