Shin Kurokawa

Engineer / Producer (Anime+Film+Music+Photo+Software+Theatre+Video)

New York, New York, United States

About

Engineer / Producer / Specialist specializing in Video, Music, Anime, Theatre, and Photography, with a strong focus on international cultural exchange through arts and entertainment. Co-founding member of the very 1st anime localization and distribution company in the United States.

Experience

  • Engineer / Producer / Specialist - Audio / Music / Photo / Video at Freelance
    1989 - Present · 37 yrs 6 mos

    * Anime / Film / Music / Video / Video Games / Photography /Theatre -- Production / Development / Post Production / Licensing / Artist Management / Planning * Songwriter/Composer (ASCAP / NBCUniversal Music) / Producer / Studio+Live / J-Pop + Anime soundtrack * Music Production / Post Production. Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton, Digital Performer and other analog / digital tools, audio processing software development * Multimedia Design / Motion Graphics / Graphic Design / Digital Film Restoration / VFX * VFX Visual Effects and image processing software development (After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Resolve, Fusion, Autodesk and OpenFX) * Theatre/Concert production / sound / filming / archiving / artist management / PR / tech / OBS+QLab+MIDI programming * Japanese-English translation / localization for subtitling, dubbing and music/theatre performance

  • Advisory Board Member at University of North Carolina Wilmington
    2009 - 2011 · 2 yrs

    * Advisory Board Member (Undergraduate Department of Computer Science) * Gave seminars on parallel processing & image processing

  • Chief Technology Officer / Software Engineer at Digieffects
    Jun 2004 - Jun 2010 · 6 yrs 1 mo

    * Visual Effects Software Engineering (plug-ins + components for Adobe/Apple/Autodesk/etc.)

  • Application Programmer at HS-Art Digital Service GmbH
    2005 - 2009 · 4 yrs

    * Digital Film Restoration R&D and Software Development * East Coast USA consultant & representative * Assisted in designing workflows for the LOC paper-print film collection * PrestoSpace member

  • Application Programmer at RE:Vision Effects Inc.
    2004 - 2009 · 5 yrs

    * Visual Effects Software Engineering (Adobe/Apple/Autodesk/etc)