Holliday received a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts - Studio from the University of California, San Diego. Her area of emphasis was in traditional film animation and stereoscopic 3-D art. She had the opportunity to intern at the San Diego Supercomputer Center to study 3D computer animation on one of the first Silicon Graphics workstations in 1987.
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Upon graduation she was hired as a Senior Animator at SDSC, devoting her time to researching stereoscopic 3-D imaging and 3D animation projects for The National Science Foundation, NASA/JPL, General Atomics, and The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center - rendering on Cray XMP & YMP Supercomputers.
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Holliday shifted gears into the video game industry, shipping 12+ AAA titles as Lead Artist and Animator for Sony, and as senior shareholder and owner of the video game startup, RedZone - a company purchased by Sony Computer Entertainment America in 2001.
ACME Animation Stand at UCSD
NASA CRAF Animation at SDSC on SGI
NFL Gameday - Lead Artist & Animator
Holliday taught the first 3D Computer Animation class using SGI workstations for UCSD Extension at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Other courses taught; 3D Stereoscopic Film making for Panasonic and game design (Roblox, Construct, GDevelop) for the Digital Media Academy and Game Gen.
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She went on to focus on creating immersive content with stereoscopic digital imaging (S3D) as part of the 3D Creative Team at Panasonic Hollywood, creating curriculum and 3-D film projects for 3-D TVs.
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In 2018 she started working in virtual reality and augmented reality, curating for AR/VR art shows and building custom AR apps.
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Magazine Features
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Sony Changes The Game - Fast Company
Snapchat July Selection Featured Artists - Lens List
The Art of the Post: New 3D Art Makes a Splash at Comic-Con - Saturday Evening Post
The Truth about Being a Female Game Developer
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Proficient at teaching: 3D: Blender 3D (rigging and animation), Gravity Sketch, Unity
2D: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator & After Effects / Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality Software: Adobe Aero, Lens Studio, Unity 3D (custom AR/VR apps)
Exhibitions
AI/VR Art Show - Art Basel 2023
Phantom Gallery - Old Town, San Diego, CA 2023
Hypnagogia - Balboa Park, CA 2023
The AR Gallery Experience, Eugene, Oregon 2022
LACMA Monumental Perspectives"River Once Ran" LA, CA 2022
Onirix AR Art Show - Las Vegas, NV 2022
Art in Motion - NYC 2021
ComicCon @Home Virtual XR Creators Garden 2020-21
Animated Women @ Animateka - Slovenija 2020
Ranetas VRFest - Aragón, Spain 2020
XR Atlanta - XR Art Showcase 2020
ART TECH MUSIC - Miami 2020
XR Art Show - San Diego, CA 2020
Sausalito Art Festival - San Fransisco, CA 2020
VR Art Burn w/ VR ART LIVE - 2020-21
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Videogame Credits
Lead Artist and Art Director on 15 Sony Computer Entertainment, Playstation, and Sega titles