Hi, I’m Maxwell Smith. I’m a Ringling College of Art and Design graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Computer Animation. I love building animated features and collaborating with teams to turn ideas into engaging visuals, from concept to final delivery. I thrive in creative environments and enjoy tackling new challenges to bring stories to life. I excel across the full animation pipeline, integrating modeling, rigging, texturing, lighting, and editing with tools like Maya, Blender, and the Adobe Creative Cloud. I’m always eager to learn new software and techniques to push my craft further and contribute meaningfully to collaborative projects. I have also done animation work for other youtube channels where I have had to make characters, draw backgrounds and composite scenes.

Max Smith

Hi, I’m Maxwell Smith. I’m a Ringling College of Art and Design graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Computer Animation. I love building animated features and collaborating with teams to turn ideas into engaging visuals, from concept to final delivery. I thrive in creative environments and enjoy tackling new challenges to bring stories to life. I excel across the full animation pipeline, integrating modeling, rigging, texturing, lighting, and editing with tools like Maya, Blender, and the Adobe Creative Cloud. I’m always eager to learn new software and techniques to push my craft further and contribute meaningfully to collaborative projects. I have also done animation work for other youtube channels where I have had to make characters, draw backgrounds and composite scenes.

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Hi, I’m Maxwell Smith. I’m a Ringling College of Art and Design graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Computer Animation. I love building animated features and collaborating with teams to turn ideas into engaging visuals, from concept to final delivery. I thrive in creative environments and enjoy tackling new challenges to bring stories to life.

I excel across the full animation pipeline, integrating modeling, rigging, texturing, lighting, and editing with tools like Maya, Blender, and the Adobe Creative Cloud. I’m always eager to learn new software and techniques to push my craft further and contribute meaningfully to collaborative projects.

I have also done animation work for other youtube channels where I have had to make characters, draw backgrounds and composite scenes.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Freelance artist / scene composer at Box Head (Youtube Channel)
April 1, 2025 - Present
Rendered backgrounds according to the drawing brief using Procreate; designed caricatures in the Box Head style; composited scenes with backgrounds and characters using Adobe Photoshop; coordinated with groups to efficiently divide workload and produce videos in a timely manner.
Freelance 2D / 3D Animator at Temple University
March 1, 2024 - August 1, 2024
Animated pitch for a new machine; storyboarded scenes to demonstrate function and app relation; modeled the machine and animated components using Autodesk Maya / Blender; depicted efficacy with a cartoony character in Adobe Animate.
Freelance Video Editor at Flank (Youtube Channel)
June 1, 2023 - Present
Animated visuals and demonstrations for videos including looping backgrounds, titles, and infographics using Adobe Animate; trimmed raw video files, removed bad takes, synchronized audio/FX, and rendered final media.
Computer Animator at Ringling College of Art and Design
August 1, 2019 - May 1, 2022
Modeled and textured five bipedal characters, environments, and props; rigged and constructed characters; animated pose-to-pose sequences; followed the full animation pipeline to produce 30-second animated features; demonstrated weight movement using animation principles; adjusted lighting and composited CG elements in rendering the final product.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Computer Animation at Ringling College of Art and Design
August 1, 2019 - May 1, 2022

Qualifications

Dean's Scholarship
January 11, 2030 - January 7, 2026

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet, Education, Professional Services