Francisco Queiroz

Experience

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  LocZ

  Jan 2000 - Dec 2001

  Designer

  Responsibilities included designing 3D and 2D material for shareware games, webgames, websites and advertisement material for the internet at LocZ Multimedia, whose clients included Mastercard, BMW and Volkswagen among others.During that time I have also worked on two shareware/web games from LocZ: Sinapse (2D jigsaw puzzle), designing the Graphical User Interface; and Buggyracers (3D racing for kids), conceptualizing, modeling and texturing the characters and most of the environments.

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  Freelance

  Dec 2001 - May 2004

  Designer

  Designing and developing Flash and Shockwave webgames for LocZ Multimedia (http://www.locz.com.br) and Bestlife (http://www.bestlife.com.br). Job responsibilities included conception and production of all graphical assets and, if required, sound effects, music and additional programming using Lingo and ActionScript.During this period, three products I have worked on were included on the Top 10 list of the Internet award IBest.com.br. One of which has won the award's 2003 edition.I have also worked on other projects such as localization for mobile games, producing translated graphical elements for products from Jamdat Games, such as Bejeweled and Jamdat Bowling. Show less

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  University for the Creative Arts

  Nov 2004 - Dec 2004

  Undergraduate Teatcher Assistant

  Graduate Teacher Assistant for the Interactive Entertainment module. Duties included giving technical help to students with their final projects made with Flash and Director, including ActionScript and Lingo programming.

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  Electronic Arts (EA)

  Aug 2005 - Oct 2005

  Game Tester

  Video Game tester, focused on handheld platforms. Responsibilities included classification and report of concerns found.

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  PJPonce

  Oct 2006 - Oct 2007

  Designer

  Computer Graphics Artist. Responsibilities include creating, modeling, texturing and animating elements for 3D technical/scientific animated films, as well as post-production and image treatment.

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  Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

  Aug 2007 - Dec 2018

  Teaching Fellow at the BA Design Course

  Teaching Virtual Modelling and Computer Graphics and Technology for Games. During the period 2007 - 2010 I was also a lecturer for Image Creation / Manipulation (using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator software).

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  Tecgraf / PUC-Rio

  Oct 2007 - Dec 2018

  Digital Design Consultant

  Developing UI and prototypes for visualization software, multimedia applications, and stereoscopic 3D movies.

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  SBGames 2009 Organising Comitee

  Oct 2009 - Oct 2009

  Curator and General Organizer, Art Exhibition

  Organizing the art exhibition exploring connections between video games and art held at SBGames 2009. SBGames is the annual symposium of the Special Commission of Games and Digital Entertainment of the Computing Brazilian Society.

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  Packt

  Mar 2010 - Jul 2010

  External Technical Revisor

  Technical Revision for the bookUnity 3D Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide. During that time, I have worked remotely for the PACKT Publishing company, located in Birmingham, UK.

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  Packt Publishing

  May 2012 - Jun 2013

  Co-author for Unity 4.x Cookbook

  Writing and developing learning material for a technical book on Unity 4.x.

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  University of Leeds

  Sept 2018 - now

  Since 2020 - Lecturer in Digital Innovation Design. Between 2019-2020, Lecturer in Graphic, Digital and Interactive Design.

  • Lecturer

    Jan 2019 - now

  • Visiting Lecturer

    Sept 2018 - Dec 2018