Michael Hopkins
ph (916) 208-5702
 e-mail: mikehopkins99@yahoo.com
Work Experience and Samples Education Tools of the Trade Fine Art Music



2014 - 2015

The Sherlock Group (Clients we worked for: Disney / Cinedigm / xBox)

1250 6th St Suite 305
Santa Monica CA 90401

(310) 439-8667    

web: sherlockpipeline.com

• Title:
   Photoshop Production Artist (I worked remotely from home)

• Equipment & Software:
   Refer to:  “Tools of the Trade” 

• Work description:
   - Worked remotely with approximately 50 other graphic artists around the world.
   - Communicated using DropBox, Skype, phone and text.
   - Worked on resizing standard DVD cover art to 8 different sizes for online display to rent and purchase.
   - All job orders and file conversions ran thru an inhouse, brilliantly designed system called "The Pipeline".
   - Used very advanced Photoshop techniques of layering, expanding areas and composing layout.
   - Utilizing my fine art skills I used a Wacom Drawing Tablet to paint missing areas and retouch.
   - Compiled all proofs in Adobe In Design.

- Zipped PDF Samples Download instructions-
NOTE: Please download to computer hardrive, not your phone. When you click on a link, Google Drive will open. 1) In upper right area, click on downward arrow to "Download" Zipped PDFs. Or, 2) Go to the right side pull down menu of file name and "Download" the Zipped PDFs. A Zip file should show up in your "Downloads" folder. Double click on Zip file to access PDFs. If you view the PDFs on the web, the resolution is very poor.

Disney
We started off with a standard size DVD cover, resized to 8 different sizes. When inside PDF please scroll down. Most PDF proofs started with the wide size progressing back to the original smaller standard size. One PDF Proof starts with the smaller standard size going up to the wide extended size.

• Disney Sample 1 - 23.2 MB
• Disney Sample 2 - 23 MB

 Cinedigm
We started off with a standard size DVD cover, resized to 8 different sizes. When inside PDF please scroll down. The PDF proofs starts with the smaller standard size going up to the wide extended size.

• Cinedigm Sample 1 - 13.1 MB
• Cinedigm Sample 2 - 14.8 MB		 xBox
We started off with a standard size DVD cover, resized to 1 larger size.

• xBox Sample 1 - 8.5 MB
• xBox Sample 2 - 5.5 MB




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