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☼ multimedia bricoleur with a fondness for symbolism, cyberfluxus, amateur art ☼

bio

name:         matthew (dba wampastompa)
location:     virginia (remote only)
timezone:     flexible
education:    b.s. english, caltech

skills

illustration - (see portfolio to see style range), software={affinity suite, procreate, gimp, mspaint, heavypaint}
animation - ideation, storyboards, 2D & 3D animation, software={procreate, opentoonz, blender}
3D - modeling, animation, texturing, rigging, software={blender, teddy, mixamo}
programming - python, html/css/javascript
music - daws={mixcraft, sunvox, bitwig, audacity}, intermediate proficiency in {mixing, mastering, guitar, bass, various other instruments}

{writer, researcher} for several stock/crypto newsletters/products for one of the largest, oldest independent financial research firms in the united states (2021 - present)
{animator, art director, illustrator, video editor, creator} of {music videos, social media posts, cartoons, other content} for the all-ages kids band Koo Koo (2018 - present)
barista at starbucks (2019 - 2020)
{live remote technician, studio board operator} for 4 radio stations owned by lotus (formerly scripps media) (2017-2019)
data visualization programmer intern for {caltech, jpl, artcenter} where i helped design & programmed a glacial flow model visualization (summer 2016)

have a lot of dogs & cats: 🐕🐕🐕🐕🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈
wrote my senior thesis on chaucer's "book of the duchess." researched vernacular music performance in england one summer as part of a caltech fellowship
participated in 16 gamejams/hackathons in the past (primarily the Ludum Dare)
co-created the boise zine fest with my wife. ran the event for two years, until we relocated to virginia. now we're helping out remotely with asset creation + promotion

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