Personal Information:

Name:            Eigil Jarl Halse
Date of birth:  21.04.1980
Lives in:          Oslo, Norway
E-mail:            e i g i l j a r l @ h o t m a i l . c o m

Msn:               e i g i l j a r l @ h o t m a i l . c o m

Feel free to e-mail me with comments, questions and job-related inquiries.


CV:

February 2004. - Present: Funcom
Animator/3d Artist
· Hired fulltime as an animator on "Dreamfall"
· Also working on character setups and animation workflow.

December 2003 - January 2004: Funcom
Animator.
· Temping as an animator and responsible for creating animations for the next installment in the "The Longest Journey" brand.
· Also working on character setups and animation workflow.

20. - 25. October 2003: Høgskulen i Volda (Volda University College)
Guest Teacher.
· Held a beginners course in 3d Studio Max for the Animation class, second year. Introduced them to basic routines in general 3d, modeling, rendering, lighting, animation.

July-September 2003: Høgskulen i Volda (Volda University College)
Freelance 3D Artist
· Modeled, animated and textured the 3d-content of a snowboard game. Used as part of an edutainment CD-rom bundled with a children's book about asthma.

June 2002-July 2003: Innerloop Studios
Animator/3D Artist
· Employed to retouch and animate numerous models for the game IGI:2 - Covert Strike. · Modeled several objects, interiors and exteriors of buildings in post-release Multiplayer Levels.

April-June. 2002: Innerloop Studios
Freelance 3D Animator
· Hired as a freelance animator to meet a milestone deadline on the project IGI:2 - Covert Strike.

Mars-April. 2002: Bug
Freelance 3D modeller
· Contracted to create a character for a SMS-game to be played on the norwegian TV-channel TV2

October-November. 2001: Toxic Design Studios
3D Artist
· Created a 3D animation/presentation of a new logo for the company Montér

October 2000 - October 2001 Kaihuset Multimediaverkstad (Kaihuset Multimedia Workshop)
· Responsible for the daily operation of both the video and animation workshops.
· Supervised various projects such as short films, web sites and mini-games.

1998-1999 Oersta Movie Theatre
Freelance 2D Artist
· Created various commercial stills for posters and slides for the pre-movie commercials.

Other graphics industry related work:

CXG, Movie projects
· Cooperated with Endre Eikrem on several 3d animation shorts. Some of which got good response in various norwegian film-festivals, and one which was nominated for the norwegian Amandus Award.

Education:

Høgskulen i Volda (Volda University College)
· English year course includes 100 lessons of didactics/methods. (60 credits).

Volda Vidaregåande Skule (Volda High school)
· 3 years, electives in Math, Physics and Chemistry.

Courses:

Nordisk Institutt for Scene og Studio
· Basic level pyrotechnics course.