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—Team Lead for multiple shows in the Shot Finaling department, with additional supervisory duties for one of them.—Keep close communication with directors, producers, and leads/supervisors across all departments in order to flag issues quickly.—Create dynamics presets and assess quality and motion of dynamics and simulation work.—Review hundreds of shots per episode for quality fixes, continuity, broken or mismatching anim, render errors, asset issues, dynamics, cloth sim, groom and fur, among anything else each individual shot needs.—Work closely with the rigging and assets departments to fix issues within the sets and rigs.—Troubleshoot render/asset errors and fix problems in scene.—Achieved Employee of the Month, May 2023.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

-Developed fight choreography for battle sequences.-Assisted supervisor in the planning of the staging, action and perspectives of various shots.-Created an assortment of animations to add variety within crowd sequences.-Used effects to demonstrate clear visual ideas for production.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

-Provided realistic animations of bipeds, aerial flight, and dynamic elements such as cables and ropes for heavy action sequences.-Animated intense camera moves to convey exciting action.-Cleaned up and enhanced motion capture for VR simulations.

Vancouver, Canada Area

-Provided animations using motion capture to create game cinematics.-Animated dozens of characters for crowd sequences, and organized layout of crowd characters to achieve ideal shot composition.Projects include Mortal Kombat 11.

Vancouver, Canada Area

-Developed previs for upcoming cinematics, including scene sequence layout and fight choreography.Projects include Mortal Kombat 11.

Vancouver, Canada Area

-Provided animations of bipeds, quadrupeds, hard surface and dynamic rigs for various shows.-Organized production lists of shots and ensured all animations were up to date with latest rigs before sending out caches for other departments.-Developed previs for sequences before animating them.-Cross-trained with other departments to provide additional help when animation work was low.Projects include Dark Matter, Zoo, and Tiny Christmas.

Vancouver, Canada Area

-Developed travel paths and animated trajectories of vehicles and other moving elements during chase sequences.-Maintained set list of all environment elements, and ensured proper placement and continuity of all CG elements within each shot.-Checked tracking for all CG-integrated shots to ensure cameras line up with live plates.-Defined each shot within proper world space to ensure continuity.-Cross-trained in matchmove to provide tracking for additional shows.Projects include Fate of the Furious and Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

-Added transition animations for characters using Motion Builder, Maya, and Unreal Engine 4, and blended seamlessly between in-game cycles.-Managed small team of artists, dedicated to finalizing two playable characters. QA’d all of artists’ work, and brought everything into game.Projects include Paragon.

Vancouver, Canada Area

-Set up scenes and provided initial stages of animation.-Placed cameras and set focal lengths within each shot to match client storyboards.-Quality checked shots, cleaned up animation, fine-tuned timing of action, and maintained consistency of shot elements throughout each sequence.Projects include Bob the Builder: Season 2, and Bob the Builder: Mega Machines.

Vancouver, Canada Area

-Built and animated scenes within Maya to supply assets for CG-integrated films in order to convey emotion and excitement.-Supervised work from animation and rotoscope departments in order to ensure smooth pipeline flow, and provided fixes to achieve maximum quality.-Maintained style and art direction throughout multiple, concurrent projects.Projects include Insurgent, Mockingjay Part 2, and Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice.

San Diego, Ca

-Built and animated assets within CG-integrated films.-Learned and perfected use of several proprietary softwares in a short amount of time.-Became go-to expert for pre-vis design of scene assets.Projects include The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Man of Steel and The Smurfs 2.

Burbank, Ca

-Learned and applied new softwares and techniques for rotoscope creation.-Managed teams of 20+ artists to knock out heavily populated shots in extremely tight deadlines.-Maintained high level of organization among self, as well as among teams of artists to ensure efficiency and an organized game plan.-Assisted leads with training and evaluating new artists.-Worked primarily within Nuke and Silhouette.Projects include Thor, Captain America and The Avengers.

Bachelor Of Science Degree, Computer Animation

Computer Science; Studio Art