David McManus

21 East 10th Street
New York, N.Y. 100003
212 505 6666
dmcmanus@nyc.rr.com

Interactive

Sudden Industries, New York, N.Y.

Director, Design and Animation.
Clients include:

• A&E Networks
• American Movie Classics
• Bravo Networks
• Cartoon Network
• Comedy Central
• The Criterion Collection
• E! Entertainment
• Independent Film Channel
• MTV
• Nickelodeon
• Optimum Online
• Showtime
• Sundance Channel
• Artemis Records
• Atlantic Records
• BMG
• BMG-Heritage
• Columbia Records
• Island/Def Jam Records
• Maverick Records
• MCA Records
• Motown Records
• RCA Records,
• Rykodisc,
• Sony Music,
• Universal Music
• Warner Brothers Records

Push Media Group, New York, N.Y.

Head designer at Multimedia Company specializing in high bandwidth web design, CD-ROM and ECD design.
Clients include:

• Billboard Magazine
• BMG
• Classical/Red Seal
• Cable-vision/Optimum online
• Rykodisc
• Knitting Factory
• MGM

Poppe Tyson Interactive, New York, N.Y.

Designer for interactive advertising agency. Focusing on animations for various streaming technologies and web design.

Hearst New Media Center, New York, N.Y.

All phases of web design, including animation, page layout and design.

Byron Preiss Multimedia Company, INC. New York N.Y.

Produced graphics for web sites and CD-ROM games.

I-3 Telecom, Inc. New York, N.Y.

Produced graphics for corporate web sites.

Illustration

World Wrestling Entertainment Magazine

Using Maya, Photoshop and Illustrator I do monthly print illustrations for the premier wrestling magazine.

• "Mysterio's" brand pasta meal January 29, 2007
• "Title Belt of the Future" January 29, 2007
• "Haas Easter Egg" Febuary 13, 2007
• "Deuce & Domino's Pizza", March 19, 2007
• "Orton's bruised and battered fish fillets" May 8, 2007
• "Triple H" July 9, 2007
• "Snitsky Scumming Bubbles" July 26, 2007
• "Marella Kart" August 28, 2007
• "12 superstars of Christmas" October 26, 2007
• "The Slammy's" November 16, 2007
• "Tommy Dreamsicle" December 18, 2007
• "Tommy Dreamer Operation Game" January, 14 2008

Calvin Klein Home

• Design of flatware
• Rendering of flatware

The New Yorker

• Portrait of the Pope for article by Colm Toibin
• Portrait of the Virgin Mother for article by Marina Warner

Mademoiselle

• Humorous Tampon box for monthly Q&A
• Portrait of Hillary Clinton for article by Ellen Neuborne
• Signs of the Zodiac for astrology page
• Hazardous road sign for article on risk taking

Awards

www.elvisnumberones.com For BMG, 2003

• Bronze Pencil winnerat The One Show
• Silver Cube from the Art Directors Club
• Best of Show from the Web Marketing Association's Web Awards
• Silver medal from the eDesign Competition
• Award of Excellence from the International Web Page Awards

Pj Olson For Columbia Records, 2000

• Gold Pencil winner at The One Show for Promotional Advertising

Teaching:

Parsons The New School of Design, New York, N.Y.

I believe it's such a daunting endeavor to learn how to use the various applications that I teach, it is imperative that I instruct the students in such a way that they are having fun. If they are having fun, the technical aspects fall into place.

• Maya 3D
• Motion Graphics with After Effects CS3
• Photoshop
• Intro to HTML

Fuel Digital, Inc. New York, N.Y.

I trained the Head Photo Retoucher at one of New York finest Photo retouching facilities Maya 3D

• Maya for product imagery
• Modeling
• Deformers
• UV texture mapping
• Compositing

Software

• Maya 2008
• Photoshop CS3
• Illustrator CS3
• After Effects CS3
• Flash 8
• Bbedit 8.5

Education:

Rhode Island School Of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.

B.F.A. in Film making and photography.