Adán Peña Email & Phone Number

Glendale, California, United States

Glendale, California, United States

Create and maintain facial rigging systems and templates for feature productions. Assist the character rigging supervisor in managing face rigging artists by leading weekly rounds, approving deformations, and assist with bidding.Create and maintain rigging training curriculum for the department. Coordinate schedules, and manage mentors and new hires during training.Productions:The Wild Robot - face rigging leadTrolls Band Together (2023) - face rigging leadTrolls: Holiday in Harmony (2021) - face rigging leadMember (2017-2021; consultant 2021-present) of the character technology group (CharTech) which is tasked with creating and maintaining character rigging standards and templates. My primary contribution is maintaining/updating the facial rigging templates, workflows, and tools. I also work closely with the Production Software Department in the development of proprietary rigging software.

Glendale, California, United States

Films:Trolls (2016) - body and face riggingThe Croods: A New Age (uncredited) - face riggingLarrikins (canceled) - face and body riggingMonkeys of Mumbai (canceled) - face and body riggingThe Penguins of Madagascar (2015) - body, clothing, and prop riggingTurbo (2013) - body, clothing, and prop riggingOther roles:CharTech Production Tester/Character Developer (2016/2017) - developed/updated face rigging systems for proprietary software; new proprietary software tester; member of the character technology group (CharTech) which creates and maintains character rigging standards and templates

Assisted my department head, Tim McLaughlin, in a research project and subsequent publication:McLaughlin, T., Fechter, T., Pasing, M. A., Pena, B.A., Reitz, J. and Vidal, J. Multi-institutional Collaboration in Delivery of Team-Project-Based Computer Graphics Studio Courses ISVC 2010.

Created environment models for an educational game project.

Assisted a professor for a design studio college course. Created tutorials and gave critiques of students' projects. Maintained students' grades and informed the class of their progress and schedule.

Tasks ranged from surveying accident scenes and vehicles to creating animations and graphics for use in court trials.

Coordinated rehearsals and lead a small team of musicians for a weekly worship service. I was the lead vocalist and instrumentalist as well.

Maintained the overall design of the daily newspaper at Texas A&M University. Designed the front page layout and associated packages. Managed a team of graphic artists.

Created information graphics, front page packages, and political cartoons for the daily newspaper at Texas A&M University.

Ms, Visualization

Activities and Societies: SIGGRAPH 2008 Student Volunteer, SIGGRAPH 2009 Student Volunteer

Bed, Environmental Design, Visual Studies

Activities and Societies: The Wesley FoundationStudied abroad in Barcelona, Spain for a semester and studied under Miguel Roldan and Juan.