Cacie Desautel Email & Phone Number

Cacie Desautel is a Production and Project Manager at Her Interactive. Colleagues describe her as "I've had the pleasure of working with Cacie on multiple projects across the span of many years. We started out as students at the same school, and in the time since then I've repeatedly been blown away by her immense talent, superb work ethic, unwavering dedication to her craft, infectiously positive attitude, and remarkably fast growth. Her journey from being a highly-skilled animation student to now excelling as a project manager/producer not only makes her uniquely valuable as a game developer, but has also been a deep inspiration to me personally. Whether it's through working in-engine or helping guide the project to success, Cacie makes a phenomenal asset to any team. She makes it a point to communicate effectively and understand the development process of each discipline, so that she can identify ways to help wherever possible. I can personally attest to this approach benefitting not just her own work, but that of others on the team as well. She learns quickly, and can adapt to a wide array of situations. She has a strong positive effect on those around her, and it's easy to see why. She sets a high bar for herself, and in my experience has always met or exceeded it. Not only would I welcome the opportunity to work with her again, but I also emphatically recommend her for any position she chooses to pursue. If you're considering Cacie for your team, I am confident that her contributions will be invaluable." and "I hired Cacie to perform a variety of 3D animation tasks on our studio's latest game, Dragon Audit. Her work covered everything from creating character animations in our art package, Mecanim wrangling, storyboarding, setting up cutscenes in Unity, rigging/uv weight polish, and even writing various animation commands directly in the story scripting language. I'm very pleased with the quality of her work. She takes creative direction well -- usually she would be able to translate from high level vision directly into a shipable animation in a single pass. When feedback was necessary, she always got it knocked in the next revision, no problem. Because the iteration cycles were so low, it allowed us to produce a lot of content on a modest budget. With a different animator, we might have had to down scope instead, but we were able to get all the anims implemented both at target creative vision, and at target quality bar. Another thing Cacie was skilled at was wearing many hats. In a small studio, this is a huge asset. She became adept at our custom Unity pipeline for decorating the existing character dialogue scripts with good camera angles, facial expressions, character movement, and so on. Her eye for cinematics has resulted in a great leap in user-facing quality for these character interactions (dialogue sequences). This work involved learning a lightweight scripting engine based on Ink (along with how we've integrated it with all the usual Unity stuff), but she was able to get up to speed quite quickly. I appreciate her can-do attitude and hard work ethic. In addition to learning our existing pipelines, she was able to craft her own when the situation called for it. Most notably, our game's finale cinematic was rather complex and she was able to devise a solution for how to get it out of the art package and into Unity with minimal oversight. Her outside-the-box problem solving came in handy many times -- beyond regular human animations, we also have characters with wings, tails, and horns that required personality in their animations; she was able to bring them all to life. I would definitely hire Cacie again!"

• 

  Academy Of Interactive Entertainment (Aie)

  3D Modeling, Animation, And Rigging