Cory Collins Email & Phone Number

Gainesville, Florida, United States

A few years due to some health scares, I had to step back from the AD position after hiring a team of seven artists and animators. I asked my longtime coworker and friend, Ben Lee, to take over as AD and he has knocked it out of the park. I'm so proud of him, Deidre, Jon, Courtney, Victoria, Suketu, Jack, Craig and Eugene. I am honored and humbled to work.

Gainesville, FL

Develop and create 3D assets characters, sets, props, and tools for healthcare education software. Animate characters, medical instruments and tools for various scenarios and tests performed in the class modules. Create 2D assets such as icons, diagrams, UI images for the software, manuals, and promotional materials.

Gainesville, FL

Animation Director and Outsource Art Lead. Design, animate, implement animation for in house game projects, coordinate outsource talent and assets.Led team of four animators editing and adding transitions poses to over 500 dance animations for Pipeworks Software's "Dancing with the Stars: Keep Dancing". Animated cameras for dynamic camera system.Supplied.

Coral Springs Florida

Set up the studios Maya, MotionBuilder to Unreal Pipeline. Animated for various studio and outsource projects.Projects include:-"Spec Ops: the Line" for 2K Software. Animated characters and vehicles for multiplayer version of the game. Helped develop a "parts swapping" system for varying characters and weapons. Set up chopper attacks and pathing in Unreal.

Direct three animators, one technical animator and one rigging artist in the day to day operation of the animation department. Duties include blocking out critical animations, assigning animation tasks, checking completed animations for style and technical consistency. Work directly with game designers, tech department and level scripters to insure smooth.

Keyframed animation and incorporated motion capture to animate a variety of characters, creatures and vehicles for both gameplay and cinematics.

Concepted, Created, Rigged, Animated. Everything.

Worked with the director to block out scenes and then finish out and polish animations. Also took blocked out scenes and finished out the animations with instructions from the director.Developed the main character rig, and implemented this rig into all characters in the film. Duties included skinning and weighting, setting up shape corrections for joints.