Steven Bodnar Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Vancouver, Washington, US

Prototype character rigging and animation, including cinematic gameplay (QTE's). Coordinate my animators with the needs of various departments. Work with Animation Producer and Creative Director to outline department needs and guide animators towards an optimal and efficient animation pipeline. Guide outsource animation departments from a variety of.

Seattle, WA, US

I was brought on to create First Person, Cinematic and Social NPC character animations for 'Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2'. Scope of work was on par with AAA development, utilizing Maya with custom rigging/animation scripts, and Unreal for final export and setup. Fantastic team and genuinely loved my time involved.

Rigged and Animated fantasy creatures and dinosaurs for the cinematics in Elvira and Jurassic Park pinball machines respectively. Notably, for Jurassic Park I recreated scenes from the first movie, with slight interpretations to fit within the scope of quick bite sized movies that appear during play.

Nicosia, CY

Help prototype their main character archetypes for a vertical slice presentation. I was responsible for rigging, skinning, animating and scripting (Unreal Blueprint) and getting the character up and running in he engine. Another really talented group of people.

Madison, Wisconsin, US

A combination of mocap cleanup and facial animation for the cinematic and combat sequences in the 'The Quiet Man'. Facial animation was done by hand, as were the need to fill in areas of mocap that was either missing or poorly captured. For combat sequences, I was asked to push poses for attacks and impacts to amplify the intensity of the fighting.

Hamburg, DE

For Lost Ember, I animated the entire cast of animals in the title. A nice break from humanoid character animation, as I had to animate everything from quadrupeds to birds to fish. They were a great bunch of people to work with, not to mention my first overseas client!

Greater Boston, MA, US

I was responsible for creating Fidget Idles for the various factions in GSG's upcoming title.

Frisco, Texas, US

Same as my last stint with Gearbox! Working on the newly announced Borderlands Pre-Sequel, both as a character animator and outsource lead, overseeing additional contracted animation talent. My tasks (as they always seem to include) are of course character animation, assigning animation tasks and ensuring a standard of animation quality from outsource.

Lyon, FR

Helped the wonderful Arkane team create character animations Prey! Sequences included animating the Phantom and Mimic environmental interactions, first-person fatalities, weapon pickup and malfunctions. Awesome team and a dream project to work on.

Cinematics and Gameplay Character Animator on Bioshock Infinite/ Burial At Sea DLC...right up to the very end! I worked on everything from Liz's environmental interactions, NPC world detail animations and first person cinematics (I can't believe I didn't have this game spoiled for me!).Thank you Irrational for a kick ass three years of "non-spoiler".

San Francisco, CA, US

Provided quality character and cinematic animation. Coordinated with the Creative Director to work from storyboards to create both in-game cinematics and marketing trailers, showcasing various units in each.

Formerly 'Cinematics', Super Genius is an exceptional outsource animation studio. Developed cinematic animation for a large variety of games including 'Super Hero Squad', 'Tales of Monkey Island', 'Sam and Max', 'Jurassic Park', 'Back to the Future' and 'Poker Night at the Inventory'

Frisco, Texas, US

Prototype character rigging and animation, including cinematic gameplay (QTE's). Coordinate my animators with the needs of various departments. Work with Animation Producer and Creative Director to outline department needs and guide animators towards an optimal and efficient animation pipeline. Guide outsource animation departments from a variety of.

US

Animated roughly 90% of all character animation in 'The Wheel of Time'. Worked with Creative Director on quality control. Created a simple yet innovative way to 'fake' cloth animation quickly and baked down for mesh deformation in the engine (pre-Skeletal animation in Unreal)