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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 visual queues that a seasoned player on offense could pick up.Ÿ [College 25] Designed, animated and integrated new Team celebration system. This system values user input in the endzone while also dynamically calling over teammates to join with you in your celebrations.Ÿ [Madden 24] Designed, animated and integrated new Postplay system. This system takes place after the whistle and until we cut away to playbooks. All 22 players on the field now dynamically react to who's around them and what just took place on the field.Ÿ [Madden 23] Designed, animated and integrated new Mid-Air Tackle system. Overhauled Madden's getup system. Introduced a new signature player first down getup system. Enhanced Blocking systems with new mechanics and animations. Helped several designers expand their systems in Madden with better understandings of the surrounding systems. Mentored younger animators in some of our systems.Ÿ [Madden 22] Enhanced the Catching, Blocking, Pass Rush systems and mechanics. Mentored younger animators in these systemsŸ [Madden 21] Designed, animated and integrated all new Kick pass and Catching systems in the Yard. Designed, animated and integrated all new Pass Rush Mechanics and animations

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 Defensive Backs mechanics and animationsŸ [Madden 17] Designed, animated and integrated the new Special Teams systems and mechanicsŸ [Madden 16] Designed, animated and integrated the new catching interaction system and mechanicsŸ [All Cycles] Worked with lead/senior software engineers on each of the features I've worked on, to make sure our pipeline can handle all the content and find ways to optimize the process to keep our game optimizedŸ [All Cycles] Worked with other departments inside of EA to help flesh out our toolsets to increase productivity and workflow for animators in EAs proprietary softwareŸ [All Cycles] Direct actors for mocap shoots to capture quality content that will need to be cleaned up for use in MaddenŸ [All Cycles] Work with QA department to create best practice workflows when finding bugs in my spaces of ownership to help drive quality each cycle.

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 NCAA cinematic sequencesŸ Cleaned up motion data for player and crowd celebrations as well as iconic and school specific hand celebrations

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