Craig Mcpherson is a Animation Lead at Fun Dog Studios. He possess expertise in character animation, video games, animation, cinematics, maya and 44 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Craig was a wonderful team leader on our AR app, Follow Me Dragon. He helped keep the team motivated and moving in the right direction under an extremely tight deadline, while simultaneously fostering an environment that allowed team members to be creative and prototype new ideas for integration into the app. He helped us develop a fantastic working relationship with Apple and the app has since gone on to be featured on The Ellen Show, Apple’s App Store Best of 2017 list and in their retail stores worldwide. Craig is the definition of a team player, receptive to feedback and truly cares about each and every person on his team. It was a real pleasure getting to work with him on this project." and " I worked for Craig at both The Third Floor Inc., and at The Virtual Reality Company. He is a super chill and warmhearted veteran of both Games and Entertainment Industries. Craig built the prototype team from the ground up, and lead that team to very lofty, but successful goals. Craig gives people the room they need to operate effectively, and empowers them to be as creative as possible. He encourages everyone’s contribution. When the team had issues with anything project, or team related, Craig was always available. Keeping his head high and his belief in our team, Craig was able to temper team egos that threatened our success. He navigated political and technical minefields, and keep everyone pointing forward toward our goals. Craig would occasionally give me a short challenge (few days to complete). He would see or think about something cool (i.e. realtime reflections in mobile AR, or a VR locomotion method) and challenge me to create it. These sprint challenges brought out the best of my skills and passion, and gave the company cutting edge, proven usable tech in return. Since we were a really small team, everyone including Craig had to offer up other skills to our projects. Craigs talents in animation helped sell our idea of Follow Me Dragon to Apple, and then to the world. His background in real-time animation allowed him to animate at a high quality bar, within very short deadlines, while understanding the limitations of the engine and pipelines. His combination of video game and movie industry experience makes him extremely knowledgeable in both pre-rendered and real-time environments. It makes him especially effective when those two industries overlap. A person with Craig’s temperament, experience in both industries, animation and production skills, and highest levels of commitment is hard to find. He will be an asset to both your company, and to your employees. "