What is Visual Science, Inc.?

Visual Science, Inc. is a Company dedicated to providing their expressive and beautiful graphics for any type of project from Interactive Web Design to Commercial Post-Production. Founded in 2013 by Alex Van Dyne, Visual Science is a way to contract his expertise and services to companies that need to overcome difficult design or animation challenges within any industry, from biotech to soda pop to hair cream, we specialize in not only making a high quality campaign or commercial, but also making sure we understand what your company's main branding message.

Who is this Alex Van Dyne guy?

Alexander Van Dyne is an Animator, Designer, and all around Technical Guru, working out of Los Angeles, California. Hard working, problem solving, and enthusiastic, he is an asset to any team, willing to overcome any issue and create any kind of visual tool, be it advertisments or software designs. He thrives on challenges and simplifying complexity for himself and those around him. He is calm, collected, and happy to be making fun animations for all to see.

Relevant Schooling

Otis College of Art and Design -California - B.A. in Fine Arts - Digital Media- Los Angeles - 4yrs

Work History

Cafe FX - Summer 2006 - Client Relations
Believe Media - Summer 2008 - P.A.
Exopolis - Summer 2009 - Junior Animator
Monkeyhead Studios - May 2009 - August 2012 - Animator and T.D.
The Mill - 2013 - Designer and Animator
Iron Claw Studios - 2013 - Designer and Animator
Ivee - 2013 - UI Animator
Laundry! -- 2013 - Design and Animation
Royale - 2014 - Design and Animation
BlackButtonStudios - 2014 - Currently Employed - Head of UI technologies / Owner
Ignition Creative - 2015 to 2016 - Technical Director for Motion Design/ Visual-Effects Supervisor
Mind Over Eye - 2016 to Currently Employed - 2D/3D Animation and Design

Clients

Microsoft-Windows
HBO
Disney
Tru TV
Tim and Eric
ABC
Sal Masekela
Country Music Association
Nissan

Men's Health
Red Bull
Casio
Energizer
Chiat/Day
CPB Agency
Capital One
EA Games
Dodge

Programs

Maya -

Modelling
Texturing
Lighting
Rigging
Particle Effects
Fluid Dynamics
Animation
Python Coding and Mel Scripting
Soft and Rigid body Dynamics
Cloth Simulations
Hair

Photoshop -

Pitch boards
Web
Interactive
3D (texturing)
Painting

Above average skills in -

Nuke
Excel
Word
Flash
Boujou
Shake
3DS Max
Rhino
Softimage
Mudbox
ZBrush
PF Track

Cinema 4D -

Modeling
Texturing
UV Mapping
Lighting
Rigging
Particle Effects
Animation
Python Coding
Soft and Rigid body Dynamics
Cloth Simulations
Hair

Visual Effects Animation-

Scripting,
Simulation,
plugin development :
- Maya,
- Cinema 4D,
- After effects

After Effects -

Compositing
Rigging
Editing
FX

Illustrator -

Logo Design
UI Design
- iOS
- Android
- Windows

Unity - Game Development

GUI Design/ UX design
Asset Management/Package Deployment
Front End / Back End Development
Animation
Level Construction
Materials and rendering
Particle Effects / Technical Effects

Coding Languages

Python
Javascript
C#
JSON
PHP
SQL

Also an avid musician, and artist, Alex can produce music and special audio FX by using Reason, Ableton Live, playing drums, bass, guitar, and piano.

What's his life story? (you don't have to read this)

Having had great time taking apart electronics as a child, Alex began his Digital Art career in High School, when he was tasked with creating the high school yearbook for a 19th century farming school that had little to no use for technology, named Hawthorne Valley High School. Armed with only his laptop, he created that school's first digitally generated yearbook, and introduced the school to the ability to use technology for creative good. Upon seeing The Matrix at the age of 13, and deciding that visual effects was his calling, Alex began feverishly trying to understand Autodesk Maya, and Adobe Photoshop, mostly exploring the programs, seeing as he had little to no access to any kind of digital arts classes. His fascination with the combination of arts and computer science led him to become self taught in flash and build an interactive website for his Senior Thesis, again progressing his digital career forward in an environment slightly out of touch with the digital revolution, but showing that computers and art do not have to be separate.

Upon his graduation from Hawthorne Valley High School he decided to attend an art school, Otis College of Art and Design, across the country, in order to get closer to the digital art movement sweeping the nation's box offices and television sets. After acceptance into Otis College Art of Design on a scholarship, he began his learning in the field of Digital Media.

Hungry to create, he immediately found work out of college at a brand new studio in Culver City called Monkeyhead. He began working full time as an Animator, working his way up to become a technical director and senior Animator/Compositor/Modeler( and Anything-that-needed-to-be-done-er) over the course of three years. Working on projects for clients like ABC, Dinsey, Chiat/Day, HBO, and he watched the studio grow from small to medium size as he grew with the company, and after three years, he decided to part ways to try his hand as a freelancer.