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Redwood City, Ca

- Create hand keyed animations for Player Mechanics - Lara Croft, Enemies and Animals.- Collaborate with designers and programmers to rapidly iterate on new and existing gameplay features for Lara & Enemies.- Utilize AnimGraph tool, node-based system, to structure animations. A tool that allows me to act as a designer by building states and transitions with custom logic.- Built dialogue system & activities to NPC's by utilizing a combination of mocap and keyframed animations while satisfying designer requirements. Built categories of generic & custom gestures that could be overlayed to create organic motions that are systemically driven. - Author unique contextual NPC Activities that complemented systemic dialogue animations with custom dialogue states.- Wrote animation breakdown lists to facilitate efficient and productive mocap shoots.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Infinity Blade: Dungeons (not released)- Created hand keyed animations for character and creature motion sets.- Quickly iterated on new gameplay features with designers.- Setup archetypes, skeletal meshes, notifies, cameras and anim sets in Unreal Editor.- Used Kismet and Matinee to setup "unique" moments and cut scenes.- Built Rigs and Skinned creatures.- Led brainstorm meetings to conceptualize new enemies with unique gameplay. - Collaborated and iterated with character and concept artists to create new creatures.- Balanced enemies to achieve the desired difficulty.- Wrote tech requests for programmers and designers to build new gameplay features and tools to support animation needs.

Baltimore

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning; Legend of Dead Kel DLC; Teeth of Naros DLC- Hand keyed entire creature and character motion sets including: Idles, Locomotion, Attacks and Reacts.- Added special attacks to player weapons, including the Chakrams, one of the most exciting and flashy weapons.- Worked closely with designers to iterate on gameplay features.- Ensured all animations complemented game style and metrics.- Animated cut-scenes and multiple sync kill actions with unique cameras.- Cleaned and reanimated hundreds of motion capture animations, including: Ambient NPC activities, Contextual Dialogue and Prop's.

- Designed motion graphics for commercials, web and corporate videos.- Consulted with clients to establish style and direction of projects in pre-production planning.- Coordinated with clients through project development to ensure expectations were met.- Conceptualize Layout and Design.- Setup scene layout and created 2D/3D assets with animated camera.- Compiled final render with optimized settings for seamless playback on multiple media types.

Learning every stage of the 3D pipeline was amazing.

Create websites layout,design and functionality. Maintain updates, graphics and database via: MySQL & PHP

Prepared store for daily operations, created weekly schedule, allocated hours, organized inventory and utilized customer service skills.

Graduated from ITT Techincal Institute with a Associates in Multimedia. Also, ended with a 3.9 GPA, Perfect Attendance, and wanting to learn more.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Animation

Associate, Specialized Technology

IT - Multimedia March 2007

H.S. Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates