Hi! I'm Sam Durkin, a Chinese adoptee who grew up in sunny Florida. I'm a recent graduate from Ringling College of Art & Design with a BFA in Computer Animation, who has a love for storytelling through character animation and CG work.

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I currently work in Vancouver, BC, Canada at ICON Creative Studios as an Intermediate Character Animator.

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Skills: Character Animation, Modeling, Compositing, Lighting, Texturing, Traditional Animation, Storyboarding

 

Programs: Autodesk Maya, Shotgrid / Shotgun, Z-Brush, Adobe Photoshop, Substance Painter, Adobe Premiere Pro, Marvelous Designer, Nuke

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Interests: My dog Knuckles, roller skating, stargazing, and cooking badly

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Fears: Those people who dress up like statues and stand really still

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Email: sdurkin@c.ringling.edu