This document is Ellie Duriez's curriculum vitae. It outlines her contact information, education history, qualifications, work experience, skills, interests and references. She graduated from Walkden High School in 2012 and Eccles College in 2015, earning qualifications including A levels in English, Graphics and Art. Her work experience includes volunteering as a park ranger. She has strong drawing, digital art and animation skills and is interested in pursuing games design at university to further develop her technical and creative abilities.

1. Salford City College
Eccles Sixth Form Centre
BTec Level 3
Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production
Games Design
Curriculum Vitae
NAME Ellie Duriez
ADDRESS 3 Wilfred rd, Walkden, Manchester M28 3AJ
TELEPHONE 0161 661 04 03 (Home)
EMAIL ellieduriez95@gmail.co.uk
WEBSITE N/A
FACEBOOK / TWITTER /BLOG N/A
DATE OF BIRTH 01 October 1995
EDUCATION 2007 – 2012 - Walkden High School
2013 – 2015 - Eccles College
QUALIFICATIONS GCSE Mathematics - (B)
GCSE English - (A)
GCSE Graphic products – (A)
GCSE Art – (A)
GCSE ICT – (A)
GCSE Biology – (C)
GCSE Chemistry – (D)
GCSE Physics – (C)
GCSE Astronomy – (U)
WORK EXPERIENCE
2010 Two weeks of work experience working in Clifton country park, and Black leach country park as a park ranger
taking part in a wide variety of tasks.
SKILLS & PERSONAL QUALITIES
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic about the work.
• Happy to allocate self-study periods relating to the work, for own, personal satisfaction.
• Trustworthy.
• Flexible- able to function well in a working environment, with a casual though professional approach to work, yet always
maintaining a level of seriousness and awareness of the situation and upcoming milestones/deadlines.
INTERESTS
• Art (Digital art and traditional sketching)
• Animals
• Writing cooperative fiction and narratives (Roleplay)
• Film and tv
• Reading literature
REFEREE
Harry Arnold
Games Design Tutor
Eccles Sixth Form Centre
Chatsworth Road
Eccles
Manchester
M30 9FJ
Reception: 0161 631 5000

2. PERSONAL STATEMENT
While I enjoy both computer based and artistic pursuits, I find the idea of applying creativity approaches to technical software very
appealing. I am very interested in drawing animals and fictional creatures; something I think would be beneficial, especially when it
comes to character creation and animation. Drawing is a keen passion of mine, so more coursework and lecture oriented courses would
suit me very well, as I find I am able to motivate and apply myself in self-directed study sessions. Through university, I would hope to
develop my drawing skills, taking a keen interest in the anatomical side of animation / how muscles strain and interact, and how this can
reflect tension and mood in a movement. I am constantly striving to improve my skills in the area of drawing and animation in general,
and I university would give me a good overview in all the relevant specialised areas and help me to develop my abilities in a wide range of
expertise- both artistically and technically.
Over the past year at college, I have covered a diverse range of skills which I think have provided me with a good foundation of pertinent
knowledge and skills. This would no doubt be of great help in the near future; giving me a good skillset I can thereby improve and expand
as I gain more experience working in the industry. I have experience with both 2D and 3D animation, on professionally recognised
software: Adobe’s ‘Flash’ and Newtek’s ‘lightwave’, 'Photoshop', 'Illustrator' etc. A flash project flash provided me with both essential 2D
animation skills as well as touching on the programming side of things. This was reinforced by a course outside college I was progressing
though at around the same time; the course was made up of live online sessions and was funded and run by Adobe. Flash however, isn’t
personally my first choice for animation. At home, I typically create animations using software I am more comfortable with such as
‘Gimp’. Though I would like to expand knowledge of different program functionality and get a wider and more thorough expertise, I think
that the software knowledge I have already attained will provide for an excellent starting point. Lightwave is a good program for 3D
modelling and animation, and is sometimes used in the industry, and I have been able to understand the basics of box modelling though
practising with this software. Theory work alongside the practical work on software, has given me a much better grasp of the different
techniques involved in animation and modelling and there are many topics that interest me and I would certainly be keen in delving
further into. Aside from character creation, I have also completed other projects more oriented toward programming; While I am keen on
the artist side of things, I also enjoy computing work and I recognise that this combination of both technical and creative is an extremely
good mix, especially when it comes to the computer games industry. During my work at college looking at programming, we used
software known as 'Game maker'. Although our class wasn't taught much to do with direct scripting (mostly just drag and drop (getting
used to the algorithms)), I took it upon myself to research coding myself at home. With this, I was able to produce a more cohesive and
able game than I would otherwise have been able to. For this particular project, we were required to work in groups. The work ethic of all
the members was not great, and admittedly I ended up taking on a lot more of the work than I should have done. However I think this does
indeed demonstrate my ability to work harmoniously in a team, and the fact that I really do put my head down and do whatever it takes
rather just buckling under the pressure when it gets tough. I've learnt a lot the past couple of years; but I'd hope this is just the beginning of
my journey and development.
What skills do you possess now?
Carry out a skills audit of what you possess now:
• Research – investigative skills, thoroughness, reports.
• Ideas generation – ideas maps, moodboards, questionnaires, interviews.
• Presentation – pitching, negotiating, teamwork, performance.
• Writing – scripts and presentation documents.
• Evaluation – review and analysis of completed project work – self-criticism.
• Digital manipulation – photographic, camera and Photoshop skills.
• Digital illustration – hand-drawn and Illustrator skills.
• 2D animation – stop motion, hand-drawn and Flash.
• 3D modelling and animation – NewTek LightWave, Blender, Sketchup etc.
• 2D and 3D game engines.
• Art concept skills.
What soft, transferable skills do you possess now or need to develop and how?
Problem solving Communication Commitment
Tenacity Creativity Honesty
Efficiency Innovation Trustworthiness
Teamwork Punctuality Reliability
ICT Literacy Empathy
What personal interests and hobbies do you have or have had in the past?
Reading
Films
Pets
Animals in general

3. Music –listening to.
Creating digital art
Roleplaying (Cooperative fiction)