Jamaica Dyer

Education:
Illustration/Animation BFA (2004-2008)
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192
Dean’s Scholar, Cum Laude, 3.75 GPA

Relevant Coursework:
Visual Principals for Illustration/Animation, Traditional Animation,
Conceptual Illustration, Visual Development, Film History,
Screenwriting, Short Story, Advanced Flash.

Computer Skills:
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premier,
Adobe After Effects, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash 8,
Google Sketch-up, Flipbook, Mac OSX, Microsoft Office.

Film Experience:
Art Director Internship with Digital Media Factory.
Conceptualizing sets in 3D, designing environments with clients,
building my set design on sound stage for fitness video. Summer 2007.
Art Director for the music video “Stay” featuring Kid, 2007.
Sketched sets, built props, supervised shooting, on-set art department.
Art Department for student feature-length films :
Glory Boy Days and College Radio Sucks, 2007.

Print Experience:
Art Editor responsible for artwork, photography and design for
San Jose State literary magazine Reed Magazine 60, 2007.
Graphic Designer for promotional posters for SJSU feature films
“Drifting Elegant” and “Making it Right,” 2006-2007.
Self-publisher experienced in publishing process from creating comic book 
artwork, designing page layout, printing and distribution.

Illustration:
Society of Illustrators 2008 Student Scholarship Competition, in the show.
Women's Review of Books, Nov/Dec 07. Comic page.
Juicy Mother 2, Sept ’07. All-woman comic anthology.
Girl’s Guide to Guy’s Stuff, July ’07. Comic anthology.
Other Magazine 10-11, Nov ’06. Illustrations for articles.
Reed Magazine, June ’06.Featured artist, 4-page spread of illustrations.
Spartan Daily Newspaper, Fall ’06. Twice-weekly comic strip.
Kitchen Sink Magazine 11, Dec ’05. Illustration for article.
Access Magazine, Aug ’05. 4 color illustrations for 2 articles.
Spark Generators II, 2003 - Xeric-award winning comic anthology