Daniel Herrera Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca, Us

Santa Ana, Ca

• Collaborated with the technical director, the chief technology officer and the core programming team to design and improve the company's authoring software. • Customized the Maya animation pipeline to the specific needs of different projects. • Created over 150 high-quality cutscenes using the company's authoring tools.• Collaborated with designers and art director to ensure that gameplay and cutscenes support the pacing, story, mood and aesthetic needs of each project. • Hired, trained and defined the cinematic art department. • Managed and directed a team of ten cinematic artists. • Designed and implemented a training course for new cinematic artists that included tutorial videos and documentation.• Delivered estimates, schedules and tracking reports to the production team.

• Directed art, programming and sound departments to ensure that every piece supports a single vision.• Selected and directed naturalistic voice actors.• Directed motion capture sessions and defined new Maya animation pipeline.• Directed and reviewed cinematics.• Developed new approaches to cinematic gameplay.• Responsible for the look and feel of the entire episode.

• Painted geometry weights of over 100 characters in Maya and created over 20 re-useable rigs that include bipeds, quadrupeds and polypeds.• Used MEL to create tools that automated common rigging, weighting and animation tasks. • Provided technical training and support in Maya tools for the modeling and animation departments, involving workflow improvements, troubleshooting and tool debugging. • Developed techniques that cut animation time in half and collaborated to integrate them into the pipeline. • Researched and developed methods to automate character acting and trained character animators to use these methods.

Mfa, 3D Animation

Ba, Cognitive Science

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