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Richard "Ty" Filby
I received my Bachelor of Science in Technology in May of 1999, in the field of Computer Graphics. Computer Graphics is an area of study that teaches communication of information through the use of graphics, primarily digital in nature. There are many diverse areas with this field, including technical illustration, drafting, publishing, multimedia development, 3D and vector-based animation as well as interactive web-site development. While I have valuable experience within each of these areas of the CG program, I have chosen to concentrate more on the animation, illustration, multimedia and web-site development aspects.
After graduating from high school with numerous art and drafting awards and scholorships, I decided the CG programs curriculum was best suited to my skills and interests. I felt my drawing abilities, both technical and artistic, could serve me well in this field. While most of the CG classes are designed to further ones technical skills, I have also tried to further my artistic abilities as well. Taking various drawing and traditional media rendering classes has helped to further refine these abilities.
When I graduated from Purdue, I went to work for the BioScope Initiative project at Purdue University, which was being developed by the Purdue Cytometry Laboratory Multi-Media Development Team. I was the lead graphic artist for the project. The purpose of BioScope was to create quality multimedia material for high school biology. As lead graphic designer I was responsoble for content creation and editing as well as art direction for the project, plus various other non-BioScope projects. I also directly supervised a team of graphic designers that were working on the project.
I then moved on to be a part of Information Technology at Purdue's Informatics team. While there I was a web desinger and developer, responsible for designing and creating web pages as well as digital artwork and animation development. In December of 2007 I left Purdue for personal reasons.