James Berry Email & Phone Number

Sandy, Ut, Us

Provided hand-keyed and mocap animation (both in-game cycles and cinematic) services for Superseed Studios and Future House Studios.

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

- Pose-matched and polished well over a thousand motion capture animations for complex NPC animation systems. - Implemented and tagged up polished background NPC animations in Unreal Engine and proprietary animation systems. - Trained and led multiple teams of animators on specific animation systems workflow and practices. - Assigned animation tasks to teams and reviewed work before implementing the animations into Unreal Engine.- Tracked, troubleshot, and fixed bugs using various software such as Jira, Shotgrid, Maya, and Unreal Engine. - Directed actors during motion capture shoots for a variety of NPC behavioral animations. - Brainstormed and authored a variety of NPC background animations.

Sandy, Utah

-2 years of experience animating characters for game cycles and pre-rendered cinematics.-Researched, developed, and provided training (including documentation) for an animation ‘shot fix’ workflow for the studio. -Rigged pipeline compliant props for animation.-Built GUI picker files for various character rigs for the animation team to use.-Provided previs animation for cinematic shots, visualization, and pitch decks.-Participated in day to day studio activities and software such as dailies, workshops, Autodesk Shotgun, SourceTree, BambooHR, Slack, etc.

Bachelor'S Degree, Digital Animation

Activities and Societies: MTSU ACM SIGGRAPH- Vice-President of MTSU ACM SIGGRAPH early 2013. - Received Outstanding Student MTSU ACM.

Associate Of Science - As, General Studies