Andrew Senesac Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

2650A Bradley Place Chicago, Il 60618

In charge of NRS's facial animation pipeline. I perform endless amounts of facial animation tasks encompassing story mode and in-game. Aside from internal facial duties, I facilitate multiple outsourcers in production, bring them up to speed with our pipeline, rig, scripts and tools. I direct facial techniques/styles, perform technical troubleshooting, critique and review work until the final level of polish is achieved. I work closely with our director while we shoot over 200… Show more In charge of NRS's facial animation pipeline. I perform endless amounts of facial animation tasks encompassing story mode and in-game. Aside from internal facial duties, I facilitate multiple outsourcers in production, bring them up to speed with our pipeline, rig, scripts and tools. I direct facial techniques/styles, perform technical troubleshooting, critique and review work until the final level of polish is achieved. I work closely with our director while we shoot over 200 minutes of story on stage and ensure solid facial performances from our actors that propagate onto our facial rigs. On MK11, we've re-vamped our entire facial pipeline even more-so from what we've learned on INJ2. I work with our Character and Tech Art Team to create an animator friendly FACS based control rig. Our character group utilizes a photo-grammety setup comprised of multiple HD cameras to scan actors faces. This rig was proven by many animators to be highly efficient in our capture-to-hand-key facial pipeline. On our story mode production we utilized Faceware HMC's and AJA KI pro recording decks to capture actor performances. The performances are then adjusted and polished in a hand-key pipeline.I am in charge of our real-time facial animation including character Intros, Victories, Fatalities, Super moves, Player Select, Gear Select as well as In-Game expression poses and animations. We captured over 15,000 lines of dialogue for our Character intros and quips. Using HMC's we shoot a Face over technique with performance actors to merit solid performances and cohesive reference. I work on cinematic layout and staging for story mode, pre-visualization, in-game or real-time "wow"​ moments such as, "Fatalities"​, "X-Rays"​, “Supermoves”, Cinematic transitions from one fight plane to another, and QTE's. I aid in hooking up our cinematics to function in game as well as work with the tech group to insure the cinematic quality in our realtime content works as intended. Show less

Roles and responsibilities include: Facial animation Lead, Pre-Vis artist, Cinematic layout artist, and technical troubleshooting.

Everything from previs/ animatics, layout, to animation, facial animation, and character setup to name a few. We utilize the UE3 engine for most all of our games.

As a Cinematics artist at Midway I hold a number of roles ranging anywhere from Cinematic layout, Facial animation, Animatics, Leading up tasks within larger projects,and Character package creation to name a few. These Cinematics entail both Pre-rendered FMV's and Realtime utilizing the Unreal Engine and other in-house engines.Games shipped:-Stranglehold-Ballers 3 "The Chosen One"-MKvsDCU-Wheelman-Blitz"The League 2"

Projects include:-"Breakdown" 3D Animated Film (US Army)

I have created a number of graphic design elements for OneStop ranging anywhere from web page designs to the design of their delivery trucks.

As an Artist/ Animator at Game Refuge my work ranged on all ends of the gaming spectrum. I did anything from Concept design, Level Design, Modeling, Rigging, Animating, Lighting, and Post. For our in house IP as well as other projects we utilized the Torque Engine while also doing several Projects for other animation and gaming companies.Games shipped:-Rescue Riders-Arctic Stud Poker Run-Deliverance

Greater Chicago Area

-Extracted samples of Water for Injection (WFI) from various water loops.-Highly visible position due to number of sampling sites.-Analyzed samples to ensure no microbial growth of contamination was present.-Worked with a team of biologists compiling information on microbial growth within certain water loops.-Maintained data logs for future reference.

Ba, Media Arts/ Animation

As a student at AI I received a 3.9 GPA and was also hand picked with five other students towards the end of my curriculum to create.

Assoc, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: This encompassed the CAD/D program with a minor in Fine Arts. Studied CADD and computer science with a minor.