Finnegan is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Visualization at Texas A&M University where he has developed skills in Unreal Engine 5, Virtual Production, Houdini, and Blender. He has also been working as the Marketing Executive for the MSC Visual Arts Committee where he has created graphics using Canva, Adobe Photoshop, and Procreate to advertise the organization and current exhibits in the MSC Reynolds Art Gallery.

In the Spring and Summer of 2022, Finnegan worked as a 3D Visualization Design Intern at Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation where he created 165 metal plating materials for a material library using Vray shaders. He also scanned, tiled, and applied 94 assorted materials from physical samples, UV unwrapped miscellaneous geometry in airplane cabin files, and created a retopology of two airplane exteriors.

In the Spring and Summer of 2022, Finnegan worked as a Comic Book Illustration Intern in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University where he helped pencil, ink, and create panel layouts for an educational comic about meteorology. He’s always had a passion for graphic novels, and he spends a lot of his free time writing and illustrating original stories in the hopes of publishing his own graphic novel one day.

Additionally, Finnegan helped create three 3D animation projects in his undergraduate program. In his first project entitled, Spud Buddy (2021), he helped with modeling, surfacing, and he created the title card. In his second project entitled, Tock Tick (2021), he created concept art, helped with modeling and set dressing, positioned and animated cameras for layout, rendered the shots in Renderman, and composited the shots in Nuke. In his third project entitled, Leviathan (2022), he created concept art, helped with modeling and set dressing, managed the pipeline, positioned and animated cameras for layout, rendered the shots in Renderman, and composited the shots in Nuke.