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Orlando, Florida, United States

Ÿ [Madden 25] Designed, animated and integrated new Pre-play system. This system takes place after you call a play and up until you snap the ball. Created a new visual language on defense. Now all defenders will be aware of what the offense comes out in and will communicate with each other how they want to attack the situation. They'll use a variety of.

Orlando, Florida, United States

Ÿ [Madden 20] Enhanced the Catching and Blocking animation systems and mechanics with more content and sub categories of outcomesŸ [Madden 19] Ported all Catching mechanics and systems into EA's new interaction scenario system. Further enhanced sub catching systems with new contentŸ [Madden 18] Designed, animated and integrated all Wide Receiver versus.

Orlando, Florida Area

Ÿ Worked on Madden NFL booth sequences where I had to recreate through animation, Jim Nantz and Phil Simms facial likenesses for in game cinematic sequencesŸ Created believable animal animated sequences that interacted with surrounding trainers and football playersŸ Shot over 1,300 cameras using exclusive handheld technology, for creating vignettes inside.

Santa Monica, CA

Character animator for several shots using the Houdini animation package while working as abeta tester* Worked with the Director and lead artist to create entertaining shots

Character animator for 20 shots in the short film Honor. Much of my work emphazised facialexpressions* Collaborated with the director, Kevin Bertazzon to help push the entertainment on shots given

Venice, California

Developed an animation bumper from storyboards to final product* Worked closely with the founding partners and lead artist to recreate their vision in 3dModeler, Texture Artist, Lighting, Animation and Simulation...

Created appealing characters and poses through a story driven book* Strong character driven expressions to convey emotions in hand drawn characters

Designed character driven movements for 3d models* Animation cycles of characters for blocking

Attended all 3 levels of the Pixar Classes, taught by Pixar Animators/Supervising Animators

Filmed pivotal scenes in documentaries* Gave valuable advice to help increase the quality of the project

Created backgrounds and wallpapers, for others and my own online web comics

Bachelor Of Fine Arts, Animation And Visual Effects

Selected into the Pixar Class 1, taught by Bobby Podesta and Matt Majers * Selected into the Pixar Class 2, taught by Mike Wu and Adam.

Aa, Computer Animation

Practiced the fundamentals of animation