Civil status
Name: Marius Şucan
Nationality: Romanian
E-mail: Please use the contact form.
Address: Arad, Romania
Interests
Computer graphics, digital art, art in general.
Education
- 09/2008 - 06/2011: Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Sciences at the „Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad. Graduated top of the class.
- 09/2004 - 06/2008: (High School) Grupul Școlar de Transporturi Auto „Henri Coandă”, Arad, Romania.
Experience
- 02/2011 - present: General art work design for Willow Garage, California, USA
- Work consists mostly of interface design, illustration and implementation of web site interfaces with HTML and CSS.
- 08/2010 - present: Web design for Daniel Schaaf Marketing und IT Dienstleistungen, Germany
- Design and implementation in HTML and CSS of various web site interfaces.
- 08/2009 - present: beta-tester of VrayForC4D at LAUBlab KG, Vienna, Austria
- I have access to the latest releases of the VrayForC4D plugin product and I test them within Maxon Cinema 4D for regressions, render bugs, performance issues and user interface problems.
- 01/2001 - present: freelance graphic design
- I work on logos, book covers, illustrations and web site interfaces for various clients. Among my clients: "Aurel Vlaicu" University of Arad, The "Nicolae Vasilescu Karpen" Technical College of Communications, Dr. Ioan Dzițac, Dr. Radu Bogdan Rusu and more.
- 04/2003 - 07/2005: Mobius Solutions, Bucharest, Romania
- For this project I did architectural visualisation for several elevators of the SC IFMA SA company. The renders were used for printed catalogs and custom CD presentations for their clients.
Soft skills
Computer graphics
- advanced: 3d modelling, post-processing, lighting, texturing;
- intermediate: digital painting;
- beginner: rigging, animation.
Computer programs
- advanced: Maxon Cinema 4D, Adobe Photoshop;
- intermediate: Silo, Corel Painter.
Miscellaneous
- Strong experience with HTML and CSS.
- Really good understanding of web development workflows and practices.
- Experienced with educational software: Wolfram Mathematica, The Geometer's Sketchpad.
Languages
- Romanian: mother tongue;
- English: fluent in written and spoken;
- French: intermediate level.
Recognitions
- 16 July, 2010: "The piano room" image was featured as a Daily Deviation on Deviant Art.
- November, 2007: "The wind of change" image became the front cover of the 3D Attack magazine, which also featured a four pages interview with me.
- October, 2007: "The wind of change" image has been displayed in the "Best of Cinema 4D" gallery of the 3D Attack magazine.
- September 22, 2007: My brother and I ranked first at the ProInfo national contest with the ROBO Design v5.0 web site.
- May 27, 2007: My brother and I ranked third at a national Romanian contest of applied informatics with the ROBO Design v5.0 web site.
- May 17, 2007: My brother and I ranked first at a Student's Scientific Contest within the „Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad. We presented our web site, ROBO Design v5.0.
- December, 2006: I ranked first in a local contest with the theme of "Romania joining the European Union". See my image.
- May 21, 2006: My brother and I ranked first at a Romanian national contest of applied informatics with the PRO-Net web site (at CIA 2006).
- July 8th, 2006: Featured as a Daily Deviant artist at Deviant Art within the Digital Gallery.
- May, 2005: My brother and I ranked fourth at a Romanian national contest of applied informatics, with the fourth version of the ROBO Design web site (CIA 2005).
- September 8, 2005: Featured within the Unknown Artist Project at Deviant Art with the image Mushroom Kingdom.
- The
Digital Morning image has been:
- displayed in the "Best of Cinema 4D" gallery of the 3D Attack magazine (january 2005);
- featured on the front page of the Cinema 4D Belgium web site;
- on the 9th place in the "Cinema 4D Hot 20" gallery from Renderosity.com;
- featured as a Daily Deviation on DeviantArt.com on 11th of august 2005.
- January 17, 2003: The CleanAMP skin was featured on the official web site of Winamp.