Jim Cummings |
Jim Cummings is a 3D Animator & Project Manager with 4+ years experience
creating assets for AAA video game titles and should not be confused with
the well-known voice actor of the same name, but has been twice already!
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| After graduating from the DAVE School and completing Spring 07's Block 4 project, the Star Trek: New Voyages episode "World Enough And Time" (aka ST: NV: WEAT) Jim began his professional (aka paid) career at Wet Cement Prodcutions in Minneapolis, MN as a TD (aka Lightwave Render Monkey) on the pilot episode of "The Moodsters", an animated children's television program. |
one dure, one dream |
Since you've never heard of that show, and given Jim's desire to pursue animation, you'll understand why - when the contract ended - he accepted a position as an animator with Mindwalk Studios, an outsource video game studio located in Beijing, China.
En route to Beijing, Jim spent a couple of months in LA with Tiny Juggernaut as a Lightwave Generalist. He contributed many VFX shots to "30,000 Leagues Under the Sea" - a modern re-imaginationing of the Jules Verne sci-fi classic
that delivers 10,000 more leagues than the original.
Arriving in Beijing in August 2007, Jim planned to stay for a year, "...at least until the 2008 Olympics." Several months after settling in, Jim purchased a bootleg copy of "30,000 Leagues Under the Sea" from the new release shelf at the local DVD shop for about $1.50 US, which was nice. The cover art featured a chilling synopsis of the film: "A New World Deep Delow the Dcoon… Has Declared War on Dure." Dure. It still cracks Jim up to this very day.
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| Four years later, Jim is the Animation Team Lead at Mindwalk Studios and has produced animation for AAA titles such as EA's "Dead Space 2" and "Dante's Inferno", the soon to be released "Battle Chess" reboot for PC, and online games like the upcoming "Family Guy Online" MMO and even a virtual online meeting place for Google.
Before pursuing 3D animation, Jim received a Bachelor's Degree in creative writing and filmmaking from the University of Kansas, which left him over-qualified to enter the lucrative field of writing five paragraph essays about the symbolism and metaphors in your favorite book, movie or Olde English poem (aka blogging). So instead he gained experience with local television news production and later as a web designer before finally making his 3D dreams come true with help from his instructors and colleagues at the DAVE School, and family and friends - to whom he remains ever grateful.
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