Laura Raines Smith

Laura Raines Smith has a B.F.A. double major in Painting and Art History at the University of Colorado (1987-1991). Between 1992 and 1993, she studied inbetweening and character animation at The American Animation Institute in California and followed the Pixar’s first two semesters at the same institute in 2001. She specializes in modeling, texturing, and animating low and high poly characters and tought Character Animation for Video Games using 3dStudio Max for four semesters at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.

Between 1993 and 1999, she worked at Realtime Associates Inc where she was Lead Animator (except *) and did 2D animations for the following games:

• Rug Rats Treasure Hunt (Nintendo-64), for THQ
• Barbie's Ocean Adventure (Color Game Boy), for Mattel
• Charley Blast's Territory (Nintendo-64), for Kemco
• Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball (Game Boy & Game Gear), for Acclaim
• Magic: The Gathering - Battlemage (IBM-PC, Sony PSX, Sega Saturn), for Acclaim
• Iron Man & XO in Heavy Metal (Sony PSX, Sega Saturn, IBM-PC), for Acclaim*
• Aaaaah! Real Monsters (Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis) for Viacom New Media
• The Lion King (Sega Pico), for Sega Of America
• Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Game Boy & Game Gear), for THQ*
• Richard Scarry's Busiest Day Ever (Sega Pico), for Sega Of America
• Berenstain Bears' Camping Adventure (Sega Genesis, Game Gear), for Sega Of America
• Tails & The Music Maker (Sega Pico), for Sega Of America
• Magic Crayon (Sega Pico), for Sega Of America
• Normy's Beach Babe-o-Rama (Sega Genesis), for Sega Of America
• Barney's Hide & Seek (Sega Genesis), for Sega Of America*
• NHL Hockey (Game Gear), for Electronic Arts
• Breakthru (Game Boy & Game Gear), for Spectrum Holobyte
• Ren Hoek & Stimpy in Quest for the Shaven Yak (Game Gear), for Sega Of America*
• WWF Monday Night Raw Wrestling (Game Boy & Game Gear), for Acclaim
• Captain America (Super Nintendo, Game Gear, Game Boy), for Software Toolworks*

Between 1999 and 2001, she worked at Amaze Entertainment where she was Lead Animator Max (except *) for:

• The Wild Thornberrys’ Animal Adventures (Sony PSX), for Mattel
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (PC), for Electronic Arts*

Between 2001 and 2002, she worked at The 3DO Company as 3D Modeler, Texturer and Animator Max on:

• Jonny Mosely’s Mad Trix 2 (Sony PSX2, Nintendo Game Cube)
• Jacked (Sony PSX2, Nintendo Game Cube)

Between 2002 and 2004, she worked as 3D Rigger and Animator Maya 5 at Secret Level on Magic Battlegrounds (Xbox, PC). Since 2004 , she is also working for Tale of Tales as a 3D Rigger and Lead Animator Max 6 on "8" and The Endless Forest. Additionally, since 2005, she is working at the Gizmondo Studios in Texas as a 3D Rigger , Modeler, Texturer and Senior Animator Max and Maya, on · Johnny Whatever (Gizmondo Handheld) and Hit and Myth (Gizmondo Handheld).