MY WORK EXPERIENCE
2007–Present – Director – Mark Haylock Ltd
3D / Illustrator / Visualiser / Creative Retoucher / Graphic Designer / Artworker

Mark Haylock Limited was formed in March 2007.
Some of the agencies and clients I have worked for:
Agencies:
Brave, Cake (Havas), Conran Design Group (Havas), Exposure, Iris, Landor & Fitch, McCann, Momentum, Once Upon a Time, Race Service LCC, Relish Creative, TLC, Twelve, Wolff Olins
Client list
Varied work including:
3D / 3D
Printing Bandai Namco Entertainment / Slightly Mad Studios – Project Cars 2 & 3 Key Art, pack art and online advertising. Combining 3D-rendered cars, retouched photographs, and composited seamless in-game panoramas
Caprice Holdings – Restaurants – Sexy Fish: 3D concept visuals. Bacchanalia: Preparing sculptures for 3D printing/assembly, 3D to 2D architect drawing assets. Ivy Asia: 3D printed Samurai mask, Sumo wrestler embroidered mawashi
2D
Square Enix – online advertising for Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts etc.
Disney – Designing a nationwide preschool environmental pack
Sony – Brochure designs
Google – Illustrations for Digital Garage
Adidas – Retouching running campaign
Levis – Craftworkers campaign, Oxford circus station takeover to magazine ads
Cow & Gate – Food & drink packaging
Jack Daniels – POS in European and American airports

2000–2006 – Claydon Heeley Jones Mason
Senior Graphic Designer / Retoucher
Opportunity to craft my work, perfect my retouching, investigate design and produce high-quality artwork in many European languages.
Worked with top creatives and designers on award-winning work.
Brand Guardian
Brand Guardian for major European brands: Mercedes-Benz, Callaway, Royal Mail, Manix, Capita, PG Tips, Virgin Holidays and Britvic
Guardian over retouching quality
Studio Tech. support (IT liaison)
• Specified studio hardware and software
• Oversaw Mac OSX changeover and provided support training
• Introduced a font server with automatic font activation
• Implemented colour workflow and proofing system
Deputy studio manager
• Claydon Heeley won Direct Agency of the Year in 2004

1995–2000 – Claydon Heeley International
Artworker / Visualiser / Graphic Designer
• Working in a fast-growing, successful agency with short deadlines, a large workload and a hectic timetable provided me with valuable skills.
• Created direct marketing, ambient media, point of sale, press ads, magazine ads and billboards
• I worked with the creative department to design and develop ideas for many campaigns, projects, and new business pitches
• Responsible for PepsiCo and Britvic SoftDrinks. Designing Pepsi and 7UP’s music, summer and winter brand manuals
• Creating master artwork for advertising across ESSA (Europe, Sub Sahara and Asia). Promotions including Star Wars
Retoucher
• Photoshop skills developed, working on pitches, creating visuals and artworking brand manuals
• I took Advanced Photoshop training in 1999 and began honing my retouching skills
Claydon Heeley International joined Omnicom group and became Claydon Heeley Jones Mason
   
WHO AM I?
My Education:
Postgraduate Degree
2012 – 2014Master of Arts: Illustration (Visual Arts) – Grade: Distinction – University of the Arts London (UAL), Camberwell College of Arts
Degrees & Courses
Oct 2022 – Feb 2023: Animal Anatomy with Terryl Whitlatch – Schoolism
Jun 2022 – Dec 2022: Creature Modeling & Sculpting – Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Games & Animation, Hollywood, Los Angeles
Jun 2022 – Dec 2022: Advanced Digital Sculpting – Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Games & Animation, Hollywood, Los Angeles
Jun 2022 – Dec 2022: Texturing & Shading 2 – Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Games & Animation, Hollywood, Los Angeles
Jun 2022 – Dec 2022: Character Sculpture 1 – Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Games & Animation, Hollywood, Los Angeles
Jun 2022 – Dec 2022: Introduction to 3D with Maya – Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Games & Animation, Hollywood, Los Angeles
May 2022 – Aug 2022: Character Creation for Games & VFX – Escape Studios London
2004 – OSX Support / InDesign for Quark Users – Harlequin Training Solutions
2004 – Photoshop Advanced – Harlequin Training Solutions
2004 – Illustrator Advanced – Harlequin Training Solutions
1995 – Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering – Aston University
A-Level Fine Art
A-Level Maths
A-Level Physics
A-Level Design & Technology
Programs used:
Zbrush – Maxon
Maya – Autodesk
Substance 3D Designer – Adobe
Marvelous Designer
Adobe Creative Cloud CC:
InDesign
Photoshop
Illustrator
Acrobat DC
Lightroom
My interests:
Callisthenics, life drawing/wildlife drawing, film, music, scuba diving and travel.
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