LANI GOTO
website: Flying Dreams
contact: stargazypie@gmail.com
CAREER OBJECTIVES
- concept art: games, film, etc.
- comics/graphic novels
- illustration
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Artist's assistant, Teresa Mattos Studio, Capitola, CA: summer 08
Drafting artwork for commissioned portraits. Organizing and cleaning studio space. Filing reference materials. Employer: Teresa Mattos.
- Intern, Tokyopop, Los Angeles, CA: summer 05
Working with design team and Senior Designers in Production. Assisting with retouching artwork - cleaning, color-correcting, etc. Helping on covers and production layouts. Working at industry tradeshows. Covering secretarial duties - filing, answering phones, etc. Art Director: Anne Marie Horne.
- Page, USC Doheny Library, Los Angeles, CA: summer 05 - spring 06
Shelving books, assisting patrons and librarians, working circulation desk, answering phones, attending printers and microfilm machines, finding materials in storage, processing books for circulation. Supervisor: Heidi Pizarro.
- Print Center Assistant, USC Print Center, Los Angeles, CA: fall 03 - spring 05
Providing patrons with printouts, troubleshooting for printers and software, answering phones. Supervisor: Sanaz Sayyadi.
- Page, USC Music Library, Los Angeles, CA: fall 02 - spring 03
Shelving books, assisting patrons and librarians, working circulation desk. Supervisor: Catherine Pozniak.
- Page, Santa Cruz Public Library, Santa Cruz, CA: summer 00 - summer 02, summer 03, summer 04, summer 06
Shelving books, assisting patrons and librarians, attending printers and microfilm machines, finding materials in storage, processing books for circulation. Supervisor: David Sidle.
CREATIVE WORK
- The Ugly Mug advertisements, pro bono: spring 08
Fliers for Open Mic nights. Jordan Fickel, events manager.
- Access Brighton writing, volunteer: fall 06 - spring 07
Film reviews for international student-based magazine. Steve Martin, director.
- Chinese New Year illustrations, paid: 2006, 2007
T-shirt designs for On The Road To Hanalei.
- "Next to the Gods" illustrations, paid: summer 05
Images for game/film/comic development. Characters and story by Raoul Peter Mongilardi. Full-color illustrations by Lani Goto.
- World War II illustrations, paid: March 05
Children's book about the 82nd Airborne in WWII. Text by James Murphy. Graphic novel style illustrations by Lani Goto.
- "It Never Ends" conceptual work, pro bono: 2002 project
Film/comic project in works. Story and characters by Orlando Exee. Concept art and character design by Lani Goto.
EDUCATION
- University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles: 2002-2006
BA, Fine Arts (Studio Arts), magna cum laude
- University of Brighton, England: 2006-2007
MA, Sequential Design and Illustration
COMPUTER SKILLS
- Mac proficient, PC capable
- Photoshop, Illustrator
- basic HTML, Dreamweaver, PowerPoint
- 70 wpm
ACTIVITIES
- SCFX, USC's student special effects organization, Los Angeles, CA: fall 02 - spring 06
General officer duties include assisting with event organization, communicating with industry contacts, working premieres of student films on campus.
- treasurer (fall 04 - spring 06): collecting and managing funds
- historian (fall 03 - spring 04): established office, instituted documentation and archiving of events
- member (fall 02 - spring 06)
- USC Fencing Club, Los Angeles, CA: fall 02 - spring 06
- Women's Foil Team
- Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Santa Cruz, CA: summers 00 - 04
Student Staff serve as assistants to running the program, ushering patrons and attending to backstage duties. Student staffers also participate in master classes and workshops with the musicians, as well as a student-run ensemble which performs during the Festival.
- assistant student staff director (summer 03)
- student usher (summer 00, 01, 02, 04)
REFERENCES
Available upon request.